Also speaking:
Dave Berman of iSource on "Choosing Kdb over Oracle"
Monday, April 24th, 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Toronto Board of Trade
Room A, Fourth Floor, First Canadian Place
King and Bay Streets (entrance near Adelaide St./North doors)
North Wing, take private elevator to 4th floor.
Directions: www.bot.com/home10.html
Optional Registration Requested: RSVP to abby@kx.com
Free Admission
Abstract: Arthur Whitney will present his powerful RDBMS extended for time series called Kdb. Kdb is built in the programming environment K, also created by Mr. Whitney. Kdb combines on-line transaction processing capability with on-line analytic processing, as well as providing decision support for both relational and time series queries.
Bio: Arthur Whitney is the inventor of the K programming environment and Kdb, the RDBMS. Co-founder of Kx Systems (http://www.kx.com) in 1993, Mr. Whitney's technology is used around the world. Enterprise applications are currently installed at: the Australian telecommunications giant, Telstra, as well as at Lehman Brothers, Zurich Financial Services Group, CIBC-Oppenheimer and a number of new dot coms. Prior to forming his own company Mr. Whitney was a managing director at Union Bank of Switzerland where he led an internal team that developed global trading and risk management systems using the K platform. His previous position was at Morgan Stanley, where he created A, which has been used to develop many of the fixed income trading applications in the bank. Mr. Whitney began his career in the 1970's at I.P. Sharp in Toronto. He did his graduate work and research at the University of Toronto and Stanford University.