Laura M. Haas

Laura Haas dramatically changed the research and practice of information integration. She led three major projects in this space. She led Starburst, which showed how diverse information could be integrated into a relational database and was productized in IBM's DB2 LUW. She was the overall architect for Garlic, a novel data federation system that provides integrated access to heterogeneous data sources. Garlic was productized as IBM's InfoSphere Federation Server. She co-invented Clio, the first tool for semi-automatic schema mapping, a key step in data integration and transformation; Clio technology is used in multiple vendors’ products. Dr. Haas is an IBM Fellow, an ACM Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.