Database Group Meetings

The purpose of these meetings is to provide a forum where people explore new ideas in databases and information systems.

Summer 2003

101 Lindley Hall

Thursdays, 10:00 AM

Topics scheduled

Date Topic Speaker
May 7 organizational meeting  
May 14 funding - opportunites and plans Dennis Groth
May 21
LH 215
XML and metadata ("BrainStorm")
XML - lay of the land
Cathy Wyss
Jit Sengupta
May 28    
June 5 merger vision whitepaper - strawman  
June 11SIGMOD/PODS    
June 18SIGMOD/PODS postmortem  
June 25 Unsupervised Feature Selection Chris Giannella
July 2odds and ends  
July 9Meta-Relational Databases Cathy Wyss
July 16    
July 24 BLXquery, a theoretically tractable
fragment of Xquery
Dirk Van Gucht
July 31no meeting  
Aug 7An Algebra for Triadic Relations PDF version Ed Robertson
Aug 14XER, a conceptual model for XML Sriram Mohan
Aug 21    

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