データベースご関連の皆様 香港の Hongjun Lu先生が 3月3日 6時ＰＭ 肺癌のため 他界されました。ご冥福をお祈り申し上げます。 以下に dbworldに 香港から発信されました。文面を添付致します。 Lu先生は アジアにおけるＤＢ分野研究を強くリードされ、 2000年に、中国本土だけから著者によるＶＬＤＢ論文を始めて 発表したことに大きく貢献したことでも有名です。大変 優しいお人柄で、とりわけ中国の若い研究者から慕われておら れました。 なお、http://www.cs.ust.hk/luhongjun に哀悼の言葉を ポストするサイトが立ち上げられました ことをご連絡申し上げます。 また 中国から来られ日本で学び あるいは 仕事をされて おられます方は、 Mainland: http://www.ccf-dbs.org.cn/hongjun_lu/ をご覧下さい。 喜連川優 /東大生研情報融合研究センタ ------------------------------ Dear colleagues: It is with great sadness and sorrow that we announce the passing away of Prof. Hongjun Lu on March 3 from complications arising from his treatment for cancer. Prof. Lu received the B.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University, China, and the MSc and PhD degrees from the Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, he had worked as an engineer in the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, as a principal research scientist in the Computer Science Center of Honeywell Inc., Minnesota, USA (1985-1987) and as a professor at the School of Computing of the National University of Singapore (1987-2000). Prof. Lu was a world renowned researcher who served the database community with dedication and distinction in various capacities over the years. He was a trustee of the VLDB Endowment, a member of the ACM SIGMOD Advisory Board (1998-2002), an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), and co-chair (1998-2001) and chair (2001-2003) of the steering committee of Pacific-Asia Conference of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). In December, 2004, he was honored with a Contribution Award by the China Computer Federation Database Society and, just recently, he was honored with this year's inaugural PAKDD Distinguished Contribution Award. Prof. Lu will be warmly remembered for his infectious cheerfulness, unwavering dedication to his students and unreserved willingness to offer his help wherever and whenever needed. His untimely passing away is a great loss to the entire database community. He will be greatly missed. Please join us in offering our condolences to his wife, ZHU Juqing, and his daughter, LU Ying, in this time of sorrow and grief. Database Group, HKUST (http://www.cs.ust.hk/db/) (The VLDB Endowment will shortly post an announcement on DBWORLD in recognition of his contributions to the endowment.)