Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2000
Time: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]
Speaker: Dr Om Kumar Harsh (Department of Information Technology, Martin College, Charles Sturt University, Sydney)
Description: "Advance Data Access Solutions Using Data Access Objects (DAO) and Active X Data Objects (ADO): A Discussion"


                        Abstract

Increasing applications of Microsoft Data Access Objects (DAO) has created 
a revolution
in the various applications (using ODBC Direct's Advanced Features), e.g. 
Microsoft Access,
Visual Basic, Excel and Visual C++, Active Server Pages (ASP) and related 
Web technologies.
With the release of Active X Data Objects (ADO), a careful analysis and 
comparison of DAO
and ADO and its extension to wider applications including ASP has become 
vital for the
database community. Now it has been assumed that DAO was yesterday's 
database standard.
Although DAO is very much in use, however, ADO provides with more powerful 
capabilities
and results in shorter, simple code. ASP with ADO can execute stored 
procedures, create
temporary tables etc. ADO can be used for structured as well to 
semistructured data.
The proper use of these technologies not only benefit many commercial 
applications including
distributed databases, but at the same time makes it useful for a common 
person in the near
future for the maintenance of their personal and related databases.

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars00/dept20001107a





BIO: Dr. Om Kumar Harsh has been a lecturer in theoretical physics 
from 1981 to 1994 at the Feroze Gandhi College (Kanpur University) in
India. He was also the post doctoral fellow
at the Indian Institute of Technology. 
He has extensively taught Quantum Mechanics, Solid
State Physics, Mathematical Physics, Semiconductor Technology etc. 
He was  engaged in ITteaching and Consultation work from 1991 to
1994. He has done research work on Condensed
Matter Plasma Physics from 1975 to 1994 which rewarded him couple of 
research papers in American and European journals. 
He has long experience of programming and  mathematical modeling.

From 1994 to date, he has been working in Australia in 
various capacities. He has worked at Physics Department 
in the school of Physics and also at the school of Electrical Engineering,
at the University of New South Wales, where he has worked on many body 
problem and 'solar cells & devices' respectively. 
During his work at the school of Electrical Engineering, he did
modeling on semiconductor solar cells and devices by involving recombination 
processes in Si solar cell by exciton and exciton molecules 
at the room temperature. Dr. Harsh also worked in
IT industry in Australia including Compaq computers. 
During the last two semesters he has been teaching to Diploma and Bachelor of I.T. students.

Besides the Doctorate degree in Physics, Dr Harsh has three Masters degrees 
in Physics, Engineering (UNSW) and Computing & IT (UWSN)
respectively. He has worked with three of the
Eminent Professors of India. 
His couple of research papers cited in the book entitled "X-ray
Spectroscopy" published from Springer and Verlog