Dr. Bobbie Cochrane is a Manager in the Exploratory Database
Department at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
She is currently leading research projects in XML Database
Technologies.  She was one of the lead architects for IBM's
materialized view technology. She has also done extensive research in
active database systems.  She implemented the Starburst Rule System
and led the design and implementation of triggers and constraints for
both serial and parallel versions of IBMs DB2 Universal Database
System.  She played a major role in defining the SQL3 standard for
triggers and constraints.  Bobbie is a member of the IBM Academy of
Technology, and was one of IBM's 2002 YWCA TWIN awardees, honoring
women in industry.