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	Secretary/Treasurer, ACM SIGMOD
	Editor-in-Chief, ACM SIGMOD Record

Advisory Board Member:
	SSEI NSF IGERT - U. of Maine
	Technology Leadership Iniative - U. of Pittsburgh

Steering Committee Member:
	Data Interoperability Steering Committee (NIAID / NIH)
	Workshops: RFDM, DMSN, MobiDE

Program Committee Co-Chair:
	WebDB 2009

Program Committee Member:
	VLDB 2010, MDM 2010, EDBT 2010, ICDE 2010, HDMS 2009, PersDB 2009, ICDE 2009, DMSN 2008, PersDB 2008, VLDB 2008, HDMS 2008, MobiDE 2008.

University of Pittsburgh:
	Member, Undergraduate Recruiting & Advising Committee (CS Dept)
	Co-Chair, Computer Usage Committee, University Senate

Selected Recent Publications

SIGMOD 2009	Optimizing I/O-Intensive Transactions in Highly Interactive Applications
ICDE 2009	Adaptive Scheduling of Web Transactions
LNCS 4540	GeoSensor Networks: 2nd International Conference, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (buy from amazon.com)
SSDBM 2008	ViP: A User-Centric View-Based Annotation Framework for Scientific Data
TODS 2008	Algorithms and Metrics for Processing Multiple Heterogeneous Continuous Queries

News

May 19, 2010:	Our Caching and Materialization for Web Databases survey is finally published! Official DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1900000005 A printed and bound version of the survey is available at a 50% discount from Now Publishers. This can be obtained by entering the promotional code DBS019005 on the order form.
May 19, 2010:	SLOWLY catching up with updates.
Oct 4, 2009:	Maybe you should use twitter.

Aug 31, 2009:	Attending HDMS 2009 in Athens, Greece.

Aug 24, 2009:	Attending VLDB 2009 in Lyon, France (and also DMSN 2009 and PersDB 2009).

July 13, 2009:	Gave a talk to high-school students participating in the Technology Leadership Institute. Slides: in ppt (579 KB), as an interactive quicktime movie (1.9 MB), or as an auto-playing quicktime movie (1.2 MB).

July 1, 2009:	I am the newly-elected Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMOD.

June 28, 2009:	I am attending the SIGMOD 2009 conference (including WebDB, MobiDE).

April 30, 2009:	I am running for Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMOD.

April 8, 2009:	Visiting ICS-FORTH (DCS Lab) for two months, as part of my sabbatical.

March 30, 2009:	Attending ICDE 2009 in Shanghai, China.

Feb 27, 2009:	Our paper, Optimizing I/O-Intensive Transactions in Highly Interactive Applications, has been accepted to SIGMOD 2009, to be held in Providence, RI (and not Baltimore, despite the acceptance message :-)).

Jan 20, 2009:	change.gov/agenda/technology/ becomes whitehouse.gov/agenda/technology/.

Jan 12, 2009:	Top-25 list of the world's most dangerous coding mistakes published [BBC News]. Now, I'll point to this when I tell the students to never trust user input!

Dec 9, 2008:	I will be the program co-chair of the 12th International Workshop on Web and Databases (WebDB'09), to be held together with the ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009 conference on June 28, 2009.

Nov 7, 2008:	I came across a very interesting web site: change.gov/agenda/technology/.

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.

Oct 21, 2008:	I came across the non-partisan AVoteForScience at YouTube -- I particularly liked Ed Lazowska's video.

Oct 10, 2008:	I am quoted in the Pitt News in the story about email blacklisting.

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. [link]

Sep 23, 2008:	Our paper, Adaptive Scheduling of Web Transactions, has been accepted to ICDE 2009.

Sep 1, 2008:	As of today, I am an associate professor!


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