University of California At Berkeley Honors Vitria Chief Technology Officer Dale Skeen.Business Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2001 Skeen Receives Distinguished Alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. Award From Computer Science and Engineering Department Vitria (Nasdaq:VITR VITR Vitria Technologies (stock symbol) VITR Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer ), a leading integration server provider, today announced that Dale Skeen Dale Skeen is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Vitria. He was also co-founder of TIBCO Software. He has some contribution to distributed systems. He invented the distributed publish-subscribe communication mechanism and Three-phase commit protocol. He received his Ph.D. , chief technology officer of the company, received the distinguished alumnus award from the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . The computer science and engineering faculty gave the award at the 2001 Commencement ceremonies on May 20. The award was "for fundamental contributions in distributed databases and publish-subscribe communication." "I am honored to be recognized by some of the greatest minds in computer science," said Dale Skeen, Vitria chief technology officer. "As the inventor of Publish-Subscribe technologies in the late 80s, it is very satisfying to see this exotic technology move into the mainstream to solve some of today's most pressing business problems, including integrating mission-critical business applications and scaling a company's ebusiness infrastructure." Publish-subscribe technology enables applications to both "publish" information to channels, and "subscribe" to them to receive information. This eliminates the headache of creating a nearly infinite number infinite number a number so large as to be uncountable. Represented by 8, frequently obtained by 'dividing' by zero. of point-to-point communications. Vitria builds on publish-and-subscribe messaging to offer industry-leading business process management that enables business users to graphically model, analyze and adapt their business processes, taking full advantage of publish-subscribe's flexibility and scalability. Previous award winners include Steve Wozniak, inventor and cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found of Apple Computer; Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems; and Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Novell. The father of publish and subscribe messaging An e-mail system or message broker that supports the publish and subscribe model. It enables multiple users or applications to sign up for an event, and when that event occurs, those users or applications are sent the appropriate notification or data. See messaging system and messaging middleware. , Skeen received his Ph.D. in distributed databases from Berkeley in 1982, and was a member of the faculty of Berkeley and Cornell. He left to become a cofounder and chief scientist of Teknekron Software Systems, now Tibco. He cofounded Vitria with JoMei Chang in 1994. About Vitria Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading integration server provider. Vitria BusinessWare integrates applications and automates mission-critical business processes within and across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. (Nasdaq:VITR) based in Sunnyvale. For more information, call 408/212-2700, visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com or send email to info@vitria.com. Note to Editors: BusinessWare(R) is a registered trademark of Vitria Technology, Inc. All other names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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