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| May 31, 2008: |
Plan to attend the
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray at UC Berkeley.
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| May 9, 2008: |
Giving a talk at the Institute of Computer Science - FORTH,
on User-Centric Data Management.
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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 7-12, 2008: |
Attending 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.
The March 2008 issue is coming up in April.
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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: |
Attending 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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