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TIME:	Fridays, 3:15pm until 4:30pm. Please arrive 5 min. early to sign in!
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Seminar Schedule

This quarter the talks will focus on Databases and the Semantic Web.
The title of the talks link to an abstract and a short biography.

DATE	TOPIC	SPEAKER
6 April 2001	Challenges in Web Search Engines	NAME	Monika Henzinger
		AFFILIATION	Google
13 April 2001	Automated Ontology Merging and Alignment (slides in Powerpoint format)	NAME	Natasha Fridman Noy
		AFFILIATION	Stanford Medical Informatics
20 April 2001	Data Dissemination, Recharging, and Other Things to do with User Profiles (slides in Powerpoint format)	NAME	Michael Franklin
		AFFILIATION	UC Berkeley
27 April 2001	Overview of the IBM ProbE Data Mining Engine	NAME	Edwin Pednault
		AFFILIATION	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
4 May 2001	Toto, We'are Not in Kansas Anymore: On Transitioning from Research to the Real World	NAME	Mike Carey
		AFFILIATION	Propel
11 May 2001	Personal information agents for travel e-commerce (slides in Powerpoint format)	NAME	Boi Faltings
		AFFILIATION	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
18 May 2001	Mobilizing the Semantic Web with DAML-Enabled Web Services (slides in Powerpoint format)	NAME	Sheila McIlraith
		AFFILIATION	Stanford University, KSL
25 May 2001	Towards the Data Web	NAME	Ramanathan V. Guha
		AFFILIATION	Alpiri
1 June 2001	Explaining drugs to a computer, and helping that computer explain them to its friends: Early experience with scalable knowledge base development and implications for the Semantic Web	NAME	Mark S. Tuttle
		AFFILIATION	Apleon

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Last update: 30 May, 2001