Industry practitioners and CS educators seem to operate in different worlds these days. My fellow industry leaders often have surprising ideas about what all can be covered in a 4-year degree program. We are seemingly unaware of the huge challenge in making novices into algorithmic thinkers and programmers, to say nothing of…

It has been four decades since the commercial emergence of relational data- base management systems. Since that time, I worked on various database management topics at the birthplace of the relational model and the SQL lan- gauge, until my retirement about 3 years ago as an IBM Fellow at IBM Research in Silicon Valley. As someone…