We are soliciting talks from our industrial affiliates or other universities, so please consider sharing your interesting research on database systems with us. Even if you happen to be in town on a date other than those listed, or on a date that's already taken, please contact me. We are very flexible in moving talks around!
 

Unless otherwise announced, the seminar is held every Friday of the semester at 1:15pm, in 2310 CS&S. Many thanks to Ashraf Aboulnaga for hosting several of the talks.

Date	Speaker(s)	Title	Slides/Papers	Comments
Jan 28	Qiong Luo (Joan)	Active Query Caching for Database Web Servers	paper, slides
Feb 4	Fernanda Araujo Baiao	An algorithm for the Design of Distributed Object Databases	paper, slides
Feb 10	Marek Fridrich	The Database for Zero Latency Enterprise	slides	Special seminar
Feb 11	Stratis Viglas	Conversational Querying	slides
Feb 18	Venkatesh Ganti Donovan Schneider	DEMON--Data Evolution and Monitoring Structured Search via the nQuire Server	paper, slides	Two talks, 1:15pm and 1:45pm
Mar 9	Donko Donjerkovic	Techniques for Partial Query Evaluation (Practice interview talk)		Special seminar 1-2pm, 7331 CS&S
Mar 10	Johan Larson	Computing Web Queries One Page At A Time	paper, slides
Mar 24	Kevin Beyer	Data Exploration and Iceberg-CUBE (Practice interview talk)		Special seminar 10:30-12:00, 7331 CS&S
Mar 24	Jim Gray 16:00, 1100 Grainger	What Next? A Dozen Information-Technology Research Goals (1998 Turing Award Talk)	paper, slides	Note unusual place and time
Apr 7	Jianjun Chen	NiagraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases
Apr 14	Karthik Ramasamy	Set Containment Joins: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
May 12	Mong Li Lee	Towards Self-Tuning Data Placement in Parallel Database Systems