Academic Publications
Ultorg was founded to commercialize work originally presented at ACM SIGMOD, IEEE InfoVis, and ACM CHI—the premier international venues for peer-reviewed research in database systems, information visualization, and human-computer interaction, respectively.
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References (BibTeX)
For a review of prior literature, see the Related Work section of individual publications below.
[1]Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results
Eirik Bakke. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2016.
[2]Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results
Eirik Bakke and David R. Karger.
SIGMOD 2016: ACM International Conference on Management of Data.
[3]Automatic Layout of Structured Hierarchical Reports
Eirik Bakke, David R. Karger, and Robert C. Miller.
InfoVis 2013/IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
[4]A Spreadsheet-Based User Interface for Managing Plural Relationships in Structured Data
Eirik Bakke, David R. Karger, and Robert C. Miller.
CHI 2011: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[5]The Schema-Independent Database UI: A Proposed Holy Grail and Some Suggestions
Eirik Bakke and Edward Benson.
CIDR 2011: Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research.
How to Cite This Project
Main paper about the visual query system:
Eirik Bakke and David R. Karger. Expressive query construction through direct manipulation of nested relational results. In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '16), pages 1377–1392, New York, NY, USA, 2016. ACM.
This documentation site:
Eirik Bakke. Ultorg: The user interface for relational databases. Project documentation at https://www.ultorg.com/docs/ dated 2025-11-20.
External Resources
- For a history of relational databases, see this excellent documentary by Asianometry.