Antoni Wolski is Chief Researcher for solidDB. He joined IBM with the acquisition of Solid Information Technology in 2008. Before joining Solid in 2001, Antoni spent almost 20 years working in the database field as a researcher, consultant, developer, author and educator. He has developed experimental database systems, and has authored and co-authored a number of research papers, books and software patents. His expertise is within special purpose database systems, including in-memory

databases, active databases, heterogeneous databases and high-availability databases. Antoni has an MSc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Warsaw, Poland.

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