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| Nov 7, 2008: |
I came across a very interesting web site:
change.gov/agenda/technology/.
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| Nov 5, 2008: |
I am giving a presentation about my
Virtual WebDB Laboratory project
in the 2008 Teaching Excellence Fair at 10:30am.
You can watch my presentation live.
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| Oct 21, 2008: |
I came across the non-partisan
AVoteForScience at YouTube -- I particularly
liked Ed Lazowska's
video.
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| Oct 10, 2008: |
I am quoted in the Pitt News in the story
about email blacklisting.
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| Oct 1, 2008: |
Our RFID-based scavenger hunt demo during Computer Science Day 2008
is featured
in the Summer 2008 issue of the Pitt Magazine.
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| Sep 23, 2008: |
Our paper, Adaptive Scheduling of Web Transactions,
has been accepted to ICDE 2009.
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| Sep 1, 2008: |
As of today, I am an associate professor!
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| Aug 28, 2008: |
I am giving a tutorial on
Scheduling Continuous Queries in Data Stream Management Systems at
VLDB 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand,
together with Mohamed Sharaf and Panos Chrysanthis.
(video of why CQ scheduling is important!).
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| Aug 24, 2008: |
I am an invited panelist at
DMSN'08.
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| Aug 23, 2008: |
I am an invited panelist at
PersDB'08.
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| Aug 15, 2008: |
The edited post-proceedings of the Second GeoSensor Networks
Conference are finally published through Springer,
as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4540
(info,
contents).
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| July 28-29, 2008: |
Attending the
7th
Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS)
at Heraklio, Crete, Greece.
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| July 24, 2008: |
Mentioned in the
University Times newspaper, for receiving an
NSF Career award this year.
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| July 21, 2008: |
One of six faculty featured in the official University
of Pittsburgh newspaper
(Pitt Chronicle), for receiving an
NSF Career award this year.
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| July 16, 2008: |
Gave a talk to high-school students participating in the
Technology Leadership Institute.
Slides:
in pdf (284 KB),
as an interactive
quicktime movie (7.9 MB), or as an auto-playing
quicktime movie (6.8 MB).
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| July 9-11, 2008: |
Attended the
20th International Conference on
Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM)
at Hong Kong.
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| July 7, 2008: |
Gave a talk at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- HKUST, on
User-Centric Data Management.
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| June 25, 2008: |
I receive an NSF Career Award to (continue my) work on
User-Centric Data Management.
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| June 17-18, 2008: |
Attended the
Second International Provenance and
Annotation Workshop at Salt Lake City.
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| June 9-13, 2008: |
Attended
SIGMOD 2008 at Vancouver.
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| May 31, 2008: |
Attended the
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray at UC Berkeley.
The Proceedings are published as the
June 2008 issue of SIGMOD Record.
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| May 15, 2008: |
Participated in the PhD Dissertation Defense
of Mr. Dr. Stavros Papastavrou,
at the University of Cyprus.
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| May 13, 2008: |
I got elected to the
Computer Usage Committee of the University Senate
(for a three-year term 2008-2011).
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| May 9, 2008: |
Gave a talk at the Institute of Computer Science - FORTH,
on User-Centric Data Management.
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| May 7, 2008: |
I got promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
(effective September 1st, 2008)!
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| May 5, 2008: |
The March 2008 issue of
SIGMOD Record is published.
The June 2008 issue (devoted to the proceedings
from the Tribute to Honor Jim Gray)
is also coming soon.
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| April 24, 2008: |
I now have an
author profile at the ACM Digital Library.
(Everybody has one by default, but this is a new feature
and it now has my photo too :-)).
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| April 17, 2008: |
I am running for a position in the University Senate
Computer Usage Committee.
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| April 10, 2008: |
I am quoted in the Pitt News
in a story
about Couch Surfing!
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| April 7-12, 2008: |
Attended ICDE 2008 in Cancun, Mexico.
We have a paper in the SMDB workshop; I am on the steering committee
of the RFDM workshop.
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| March 19, 2008: |
The December 2007 issue of
SIGMOD Record is published.
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| Mar 11, 2007: |
Our paper, ViP: A User-Centric View-Based Annotation Framework
for Scientific Data (Qinglan Li, Alexandros Labrinidis, Panos K. Chrysanthis),
has been accepted to the
20th International Conference on
Scientific and Statistical Database Management
(SSDBM'08).
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| Jan 8, 2008: |
Our participation in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
(LSST)
effort is mentioned in a
University Press Release
and in the
University Times.
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| Dec 5-6, 2007: |
Attended the NSF Biomedical Informatics Workshop
in Portland, Oregon.
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| Oct 30, 2007: |
The September 2007 issue of
SIGMOD Record is published.
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| Oct 11, 2007: |
My inaugural issue as
SIGMOD Record Editor is finally published.
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| Oct 1, 2007: |
My
Virtual WebDB Laboratory project
is featured in the September 2007 issue of the
Teaching Times newsletter.
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| Aug 31, 2007: |
Huiming Qu (whom I advise)
successfully defends her PhD dissertation.
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| Aug 6, 2007: |
The International Workshop on RFID Data Management
(RFDM'08)
is approved to be co-located with
ICDE 2008;
I am on the Steering Committee.
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| Jun 26, 2007: |
The ADMT Lab
web site
gets a complete overhaul.
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| Jun 22, 2007: |
Mohamed Sharaf (whom I co-advise)
successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
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| June 10-15, 2007: |
Attending SIGMOD 2007, in Beijing, China.
Our demo attracts about 30 people.
I speak at the SIGMOD Business Meeting,
to re-introduce SIGMOD Record.
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| May 8-9, 2007: |
I participate in the
Bioinformatics Summit 2007
as member of the DAIT Data Interoperability Steering Committee.
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| April 15-20, 2007: |
Attending ICDE 2007, in Istanbul, Turkey.
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| Apr 1, 2007: |
My proposal for a Virtual WebDB Laboratory is funded
as an Innovation in Education Award
from the Provost's Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence.
(More:
University Times / April 19, 2007,
Pitt Chronicle / August 22, 2007)
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| Feb 15, 2007: |
Our demonstration proposal,
Quality is in the eye of the beholder:
Towards User-Centric Web-Databases,
has been accepted to SIGMOD 2007
(paper)
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| Jan 24, 2007: |
I am taking over as Editor
of ACM SIGMOD Record
(More:
University Times / March 22, 2007)
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| Jan 24-26, 2007: |
I am participating in the
Ubiquitous Spatial Computing Specialist Meeting
in Portland, ME.
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| Jan 16-17, 2007: |
The
NSF Workshop on Data Management for Mobile Sensor
Networks (MobiSensors)
is held in Pittsburgh;
I am the workshop vice-chair.
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| Jan 11, 2007: |
I am giving a talk at
IBM Almaden Research Center
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| Dec 1, 2006: |
I give a talk at the
UC Berkeley Database Group Seminar
(video | slides)
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| Nov 8, 2006: |
The new design of the CS Department
web site is released.
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| Oct 16, 2006: |
After a long hiatus,
dbjobs and dbgrads are back online.
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| Sep 6, 2006: |
Call for Participation for 2nd Geosensor Networks Conference (GSN 2006),
to be held in Boston, October 1-3, 2006.
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| Aug 29, 2006: |
Final Call for Participation for
DMSN 2006,
the 3rd International Workshop on Data Management for
Sensor Networks
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| Jun 12, 2006: |
Final Call for Posters and Participation posted for
MobiDE 2006,
the 5th International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless
and Mobile Access
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| June 5, 2006: |
I am a Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2nd Geosensor Networks
Conference (GSN'06) to be held in Boston, October 1-3, 2006.
Call for Papers:
http://www.geosensornetworks.org
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| May 24, 2006: |
I am involved in the Biodefense Immune Modeling Summer School,
which will be held in Pittsburgh on July 16-21, 2006.
This is part of our Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity.
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| Apr 13, 2006: |
The Sudoku
assignment from my CS1520 class in the Fall 2005 term
is mentioned in the University Times.
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| Mar 30, 2006: |
Our recently funded
Streams project
is getting local press coverage.
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| Mar 11, 2006: |
After about a year of no updates, my web page is finally up-to-date!
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| Feb 28, 2006: |
Our proposal for the STREAMS project
was funded by NSF ($500K for 3 years)
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| Feb 18, 2006: |
I will be the General Chair for
DMSN 2006,
the 3rd International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks
(Abstract Deadline: June 7, 2006)
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| Jan 24, 2006: |
I will be the General Chair for
MobiDE 2006,
the 5th International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless
and Mobile Access
(Abstract Deadline: April 3, 2006)
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| Sep 30, 2005: |
Our proposal for the Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity
was funded by NIH-NIAID ($9.1M for 5 years)
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| Aug 29, 2005: |
I was the Program Committee Co-chair for
the Second Workshop on Data Management for
Sensor Networks (DMSN'05), held in Norway, in
conjuction with VLDB 2005.
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| Jun 12, 2005: |
I was the Program Committee Co-chair
for the MobiDE 2005 workshop.
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| Oct 12, 2004: |
Together with
Anthony Stefanidis, I coordinated
the Sensor
Informatics Discussion Group at the
NSF IDM PI meeting in Boston.
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| Sep 21, 2004: |
The
new issue
of LINKS, the Department Newsletter is out.
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| Sep 01, 2004: |
I began my term as Information Director for
ACM SIGMOD.
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| Aug 30, 2004: |
The First Workshop on Data Management for
Sensor Networks (DMSN'04) was held in Toronto, Canada, in
conjuction with VLDB 2004. I organized the workshop together
with Sam Madden.
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