Founder and first chairman of the National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS) Commitee on Object Information Management (formerly ANSI X3H7). He served as acting chair of the ANSI/SPARC DBSSG Object-Oriented Database Task Group. Other activities include ANSI X3H2 (database) and IFIP TC2.6 (Data Bases), as well as the OMG, serving on their technical committee, object model subcommittee, and database SIG.
Author of DataAndReality.