Naphtali David Rishe Professor of Computer Science Director, High Performance Database Research Center Florida International University

Dr. Rishe is the Author of 2 books on database design; Editor of 4 books on database management and high performance computing; Inventor of 3 U.S. patents on semantic database performance, Internet data extraction, and computer medicine; Author of 200 papers in journals and proceedings on databases, software engineering, Geographic Information Systems, Internet, and life sciences; Awardee of $30 million in research grants by Government and Industry, including NASA, NSF, IBM, DoI, USGS; Architect of major industrial projects -- both prior to his academic career, and as a consultant since; Founder and Director of the High Performance Database Research Center at FIU; Mentor of 50 postdocs, PhDs and MS; the inaugural FIU Outstanding University Professor.

Principal Projects: Semantic Database Management; Semantic Wrapper of Relational Databases; TerraFly -- a 20 TB database of aerial imagery and Web-based GIS.

High Performance Database Research Center; University Park, FIU ECS-234, Miami, FL 33199
Telephone: (305) 348-1706; FAX: (305) 348-1707; http://hpdrc.fiu.edu