Dr. Terry Halpin is internationally recognized as the leading authority on Object-Role Modeling (ORM). His academic career included senior lecturer and professor positions in Australia, as well as professorships in computer science at universities in the USA and Malaysia. His industry experience includes several years in data modeling technology at various companies including Microsoft Corporation. He later worked as a research scientist at LogicBlox, and as a data modeling consultant for the European Space Agency. His research focuses on conceptual modeling and conceptual query technology.
Dr. Halpin is the recipient of the DAMA International Academic Achievement Award (2003) and the IFIP Outstanding Service Award (2006).
He is a member of IFIP WG 8.1 (Design and Evaluation of Information Systems), is an editor or reviewer for several academic journals and international program committees, has co-chaired several international workshops on modeling, and has presented at dozens of international conferences in both industry and academia. For many years, his research has focused on conceptual modeling and conceptual query technology for information systems, using a business rules approach. His doctoral thesis formalized Object-Role Modeling (ORM/NIAM), and his publications include over 200 technical papers, and ten books, including Information Modeling and Relational Databases.
This interview with Terry Halpin titled Database Avenger appeared in the February 2000 issue of Visio Smart Pages. It includes some tongue-in-cheek photos.
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Black Belt Design
This interview appeared in the September 1995 issue of DBMS.
For many developers, entity-relationship (ER) modeling and relational database design go hand in hand. But a growing number of designers have found database design nirvana using another methodology known as Object Role Modeling (ORM). ORM uses English sentences to express how objects relate to one another, and what constraints and business rules apply to these relationships. While based on techniques dating back to the early 1970s, ORM gained popularity with the February 1994 release of InfoModeler, by Asymetrix Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.).
DBPD Interview (38K)
Modeling for Data and Business Rules
An interview with Terry Halpin conducted by Ron Ross, Editor of Database Newsletter. This article appeared in the September/October 1997 issue of the Database Newsletter. This newsletter has since been renamed Business Rules Journal and is published by Business Rules Solutions, Inc.