INFOLAB SEMINAR: Fall Schedule 1999 
CS 545

Announcment:
Winter Seminar 1999/2000
Advanced Image Databases

Organized by: Gio Wiederhold, Michel Bilello, and Stefan Decker 


Seminar Information

TIME: Fridays, 3:15pm until 4:30pm. Please arrive 5 min. early to sign in!
LOCATION & DIRECTIONS: 201 T-Seq, right across the street from the Gates Information Sciences building
INFORMATION: michel@CS.Stanford.EDU

A complementary seminar "Knowledge on the Web Seminar (KnOWS)" is organized by the KSL.


Seminar Schedule

This quarter the talks will focus on Ontologies, E-Commerce, XML, and Metadata.

 
DATE TOPIC SPEAKER
17 September 1999 Querying XML with locator semantics
(Pre-seminar talk, no sign-up necessary)
(slides in html or Powerpoint format)
NAME Peter Fankhauser 
AFFILIATION GMD IPSI, Germany
24 September 1999 Replicated Data Management in Mobile Environments:
Anything New Under the Sun?
(slides in html)
NAME Hector Garcia-Molina
AFFILIATION Database Group Faculty
1 October 1999 Where Is Knowledge? 
Discovering Semantic Proximity using User Access
(slides in postscript)
NAME Matthew Merzbacher
AFFILIATION Mills College
8 October 1999 Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems
(slides in postscript)
NAME Ron Fagin
AFFILIATION IBM Almaden Research Center
15 October 1999 Lore: A Database Management System for XML
NAME Jennifer Widom
AFFILIATION Database Group Faculty
22 October 1999 Information Integration for e-Commerce:
Approaches and Research Issues

(slides in html)
NAME Vishal Sikka
AFFILIATION Bodha.com
29 October 1999 Some Aspects of Multidimensional Data Modelling and OLAP
(slides in html)
NAME Alex Russakovskii
AFFILIATION Hyperion
5 November 1999 Repeating History Beyond ARIES
(slides in pdf)
NAME C. Mohan
AFFILIATION IBM Almaden Research Center
12 November 1999 Data Semantics, Modeling and Ontologies:
New Frontiers in Databases

(slides in html)
NAME Robert Meersman
AFFILIATION STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
19 November 1999 A Datamodel and Algebra for XML
(slides in html or paper in pdf)
NAME Ashok Malhotra
AFFILIATION IBM Research
3 December 1999 Towards a Web of Knowledge
NAME R.V. Guha
AFFILIATION Epinions


The Database Seminar has a mailing list which is maintained by Marianne Siroker: siroker@cs.stanford.edu.
Attendance at all but one session entitles enrolled students to 1 unit of credit. If you have to miss another session contact Michel Bilello for compensatory work.

By signing the attendance sheet circulated in class participants signify that they participated fully in that lecture. Signing and not participating is a breach of the Stanford Honor code.


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