David Maier (born 2 June 1953) is the Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technologies in the Department of Computer Science at Portland State University.
He is a founding member of the Data-Intensive Systems Center (DISC), a joint project of OGI and Portland State University.
Together with his thesis advisor, Jeffrey Ullman, and fellow Princeton students, including Alberto O. Mendelzon and Yehoshua Sagiv, he co-authored a number of influential papers that laid out the fundamental issues and approaches for relational databases.
1979), he introduced the chase, a method for testing implication of data dependencies that is now of widespread use in the database theory literature.
New applications of the chase in meta-data management and data exchange are still being discovered.