Zloof, Moshe oral history
While working at IBM Research in the 1970s, Moshe Zloof developed Query by Example (QBE), a database query method created for use with relational databases. Over the course of his career at IBM Research, Hewlett-Packard, and various startups, Zloof expanded and further developed QBE as well as applications related to the graphical query language. In this interview, recorded at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, on September 27, 2007, Zloof briefly describes his early years in Iraq and Israel, followed by an overview of his years working as a software researcher and his forays into entrepreneurship and tech startups. The discussion includes the reasons QBE was never aggressively pursued as a commercial product and the tech startup climate in Silicon Valley during the dot com crash in the late twentieth century. Zloof concludes with a description of his current work.
Item Details
- Date
- 2007-09-27 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102630484
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Cheryl Baltes (Editor)
Moshe Zloof (Interviewee)
Burt Grad (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Extent
- 66 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X4206.2008
- Subject
- Hewlett Packard (HP), IBM, System R, dBase, Query By Example (QBE)
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Oral History collection