Jane Grimson

obtained her Bachelors degree in Engineering from Trinity College Dublin, followed by her Masters and Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and the University of Edinburgh, respectively. Since 1980, she has been a member of the academic staff in the Department of Computer Science in Trinity College where she is now an Associate Professor and Fellow of the College. Her main research interests are distributed databases, knowledge-based systems, and health informatics. In 1993, she was General Chair for the 19th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 93, which was held in Dublin.