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Dr.
Markus Schneider
Associate Professor
University
of Florida
Department of Computer &
Information Science & Engineering
E450 CSE Building
PO Box 116120
Gainesville, FL 32611-6120
USA |
Phone:
+1 (352) 505-1584
(direct)
Phone: +1 (352) 392-1200
(secretary)
Fax: +1 (352) 392-1220
Email: mschneid@cise.ufl.edu |
Welcome
to my home page! You
will find information about me with
respect to the following subjects:
- I
teach a graduate
class in the Spring Semester 2012: Database
Management Systems
(COP 5725)
- I will teach a special topic class titled Introduction
to Spatial and Moving Objects Databases (CIS4930, CIS 6930) in the
Fall 2012 semester. The class will be held on Tuesdays
in the 8th & 9th period
(3:00
pm - 3:50
pm, 4:05 pm - 4:55 pm) and on Thursdays in the 9th
period (4:05
pm - 4:55
pm) in room E222. This class is open for undergraduate
students and graduate students. It will be held in a seminar-like style
and give an introduction into the fundamentals of spatial and moving
objects databases. Spatial
databases enable the management and querying of geometries (like points, lines, and regions representing the geometries
of cities, roads, and states respectively) in a database. Moving
objects databases deal with geometries
changing their location and/or shape and/or extent over time.
Examples are moving points
representing cell phone users, moving
lines representing traffic congestions, and moving regions
representing hurricanes.
- Office
Hours in the Spring 2012
Semester
- Tuesdays: 2:00 pm - 2:40 pm
- Thursdays: 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
- By
appointment
- Topics
for PhD
Theses
- Topics
for Master Theses
I am a faculty in the Department
of Computer
and Information Science
and Engineering (CISE) at the University
of Florida.
Especially, I am a member of
the department's Database
Systems
Research and Development Center.
I teach general database classes for undergraduate and graduate
students as well as special topics classes with respect to my research
areas. My research is on enhancing database technology with a focus on
databases for new, emerging applications like spatial, spatiotemporal,
geoinformatics, and geographic information system (GIS)
applications.
As
a student of
computer
science, I was member of a project group
which built a prototype of an extensible
spatial database system
called the Gral system.
Within my Diploma thesis I dealt with
the design of graphical user interfaces for spatial database systems
and implemented a special instance of such an interface for the Gral
system. In 1990
I obtained my Diploma degree in
computer science from the Technical
University
of Dortmund, Germany.
After
a one-year episode as
programmer and system administrator I
became "wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (research associate)
at the FernUniversität
Hagen, Germany. Here I received
my Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from
the computer
science department in December
1995. The topic of my doctoral thesis
was the design and implementation of spatial
data types
that can be integrated in any kind of extensible
database system.
After
that I worked between
1996 and 2001 as a
"Hochschulassistent" (research assistent, postdoc) at the
FernUniversität Hagen, Germany. In 2002, I joined the Department
of Computer
and Information Science
and Engineering (CISE) at the University
of Florida
as an Assistant Professor and especially became a member of
the Database
Systems
Research and Development Center.
Since August 2008 I have been an
Associate Professor.
Last
update: February 14,
2012.
Markus
Schneider (mschneid@cise.ufl.edu)