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== Life and career == |
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Weiss was a childhood friend of [[Larry Ellison]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Leibovich|first=Mark|date=October 30, 2000|title=The Outsider, His Business and His Billions|work=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/10/30/the-outsider-his-business-and-his-billions/c1ffea25-3eb5-4918-8fa6-8837b79336a5/|url-status=live|access-date=May 6, 2020}}</ref> He graduated from the [[Cornell University College of Engineering|College of Engineering]] at [[Cornell University]] in 1966.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=CIS receives endowment from Charles F and Barbara D. Weiss|url=https://www.cs.cornell.edu/information/news/newsitem24.htm|last=|first=|date=|website=Cornell University|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=May 6, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Cornell Silicon Valley advisors|url=https://alumni.cornell.edu/connect/networking/csv/advisors/|last=|first=|date=|website=Cornell University|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=May 6, 2020}}</ref> |
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Weiss worked at [[American Airlines]], where he developed one of the first data-driven [[decision support systems]] with Richard Klaas from 1970 to 1974.<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q_3sRkRKZQwC|title=Handbook on Decision Support Systems 1: Basic Themes|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|year=2008|isbn=9783540487135|editor-last=Burstein|editor-first=Frada|location=|pages=128|editor-last2=Holsapple|editor-first2=Clyde W.}}</ref> |
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==Education== |
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Charles attended the [[University of Chicago Laboratory Schools]] and received a [[Bachelor's degree|BS]] from [[Cornell University]], in the class of 1998, and a [[Master's degree|MS]] from [[Stanford]] University. |
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Weiss was one of the first employees of the technology company [[Oracle Corporation]], now the [[List of the largest software companies|second-largest software company]] in the world. He joined the company in 1982, when there were only twenty-five employees.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Charles Weiss|url=https://www.computerhope.com/people/charles_weiss.htm|last=|first=|date=|website=Computer Hope|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=May 6, 2020}}</ref> The positions of Weiss at Oracle including being the executive director of product design and later the senior director of technology marketing.<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HnpVAAAAMAAJ|title=UNIX Review, Volume 4|publisher=Review Publications Company|year=1986|isbn=|location=|pages=103}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Weiss is the inventor of the [[DUAL table]].<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gupta|first=Saurabh K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hq1KDAAAQBAJ|title=Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Guide|publisher=Packt Publishing|year=2016|isbn=9781785282522|location=|pages=23}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
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Weiss worked in Operations Research at [[American Airlines]], the Dataquest subsidiary of [[ACNielsen]] as VP of Computer Systems, and [[Oracle Corporation]]. He was issued a trademark for the Oracle Easy*SQL product, one of the first SQL Query Editing tools, and one of Oracle's first utilities. He is also credited with the invention of the [[DUAL table]] in the Oracle [[RDBMS]]. |
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Revision as of 05:12, 6 May 2020
Charles "Chuck" Weiss is an American computer scientist and software designer.
Life and career
Weiss was a childhood friend of Larry Ellison.[1] He graduated from the College of Engineering at Cornell University in 1966.[2][3]
Weiss worked at American Airlines, where he developed one of the first data-driven decision support systems with Richard Klaas from 1970 to 1974.[4]
Weiss was one of the first employees of the technology company Oracle Corporation, now the second-largest software company in the world. He joined the company in 1982, when there were only twenty-five employees.[5] The positions of Weiss at Oracle including being the executive director of product design and later the senior director of technology marketing.[6][2][3] Weiss is the inventor of the DUAL table.[5][7]
In 2001, Weiss and his wife Barbara created an endowment for the Charles F. and Barbara D. Weiss Directorship of the Information Science Program in Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. Weiss had also worked as a Silicon Valley advisor for the university.[2][3]
References
- ^ Leibovich, Mark (October 30, 2000). "The Outsider, His Business and His Billions". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c "CIS receives endowment from Charles F and Barbara D. Weiss". Cornell University. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c "Cornell Silicon Valley advisors". Cornell University. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Burstein, Frada; Holsapple, Clyde W., eds. (2008). Handbook on Decision Support Systems 1: Basic Themes. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 128. ISBN 9783540487135.
- ^ a b "Charles Weiss". Computer Hope. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ UNIX Review, Volume 4. Review Publications Company. 1986. p. 103.
- ^ Gupta, Saurabh K. (2016). Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Guide. Packt Publishing. p. 23. ISBN 9781785282522.