Michael Rys
Biography:
After finishing his Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in the area of database systems, Michael Rys went to Stanford University for a Postdoc, where he worked on semi-structured databases and distributed heterogeneous information integration. In late 1998, he joined Microsoft Corporation in Redmond where he is now a Program Manager for SQL Server's XML Technologies. Michael is also a member of the W3C XML Query working group, INCITS/ANSI H2 and is a member of ACM and IEEE. He recently co-authored the acclaimed book "Experts on XQuery".
