[Oral History Program interview with David Dewitt, 2010 ]

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Dewitt, David 1948- interviewee

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In his two July 2010 interviews with Troy Reeves, David Dewitt talks about his life before and during his UW-Madison career. This interview covered the time period from the 1950s to the present and...

In his two July 2010 interviews with Troy Reeves, David Dewitt talks about his life before and during his UW-Madison career. This interview covered the time period from the 1950s to the present and touched on the following topics: Colgate University; University of Michigan; University of Wisconsin-Madison; computer science departments at Michigan and Wisconsin; computer database work at UW-Madison, and his recent work for Microsoft. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Oral History Program.

Key Words: Colgate University; Vietnam War; University of Michigan, Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Science Department; Microsoft Corporation; Michael Stonebraker; Lawrence Landweber; Arch W. Naylor; tenure; DARPA funding; Alan Sears; Direct database; Wisconsin Benchmark; WARF; Crystal project; Paradise project; graduate students.

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