Dina Q Goldin

Dina Goldin (http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/dqg) has been a faculty member in Computer Science in the CSE department at the University of Connecticut. She is currently a visiting faculty member in the CS department at Brown University, and a Senior Member of IEEE. Her research work is in the following two (not-so-related) areas:

• Efficient querying of non-traditional data: sensor network query systems, constraint and spatial databases, similarity queries for time-series data.
• Models of interactive computation: Persistent Turing Machines, information systems, indirect interaction, models of coordination.

CURRENT RESEARCH AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Keynote speaker, GeoInfo 2007.
• Co-Editor, "Interactive Computation: the New Paradigm", Springer-Verlag, October 2006. Here is a link to it on Amazon.com.
• Founding co-organizer and steering committee member, FINCO'07 (Foundations of Interactive Computing), a satellite workshop of ETAPS 2007.
• Here are my recent papers and invited talks.
• My current research projects are listed here.
• My book, Interactive Computation: The New Paradigm, was published by Springer-Verlag in 2006 in 2006.
• Information director and member of the Editorial Board, ACM Computing Reviews. Editor, Hot Topics section of the ACM Computing Reviews.
• Affiliated Researcher, Experimental Visualization Laboratory, Dartmouth College (since Spring 2002).
• NSF CISE/CCF SGER grant, Persistent Turing Machines: Beyond the Turing Thesis
• Senior member, IEEE.
• Webmaster and member, New England Database Society.
• National Computer Science program evaluator for ABET/CSAB, as well as ABET accreditation consultant to Computer Science programs that are preparing for an ABET accreditation visit.
• Program Committee Member, VLDB 2008, CSR 2006, SAWN 2006, WISE 2006, GSN'06.
• For my life story (as of April 2009), please see my CV (PDF).

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• The homepage of CSE237 (Theory of Computation), Spring 2006.
• Director of Applied Theory Lab, ITEB building, UConn.
• Publicity director, PC member and session chair for ICDE'04.
• Founding co-organizer, ACM PCK50 workshop.
• Panel member, GSN (GeoSensor Networks) workshop, Portland Maine, October 2003. Here is our panel report (PS), published in ACM SIGMOD Record.
• Founding co-organizer and steering committee member, FINCO'05 (Foundations of Interactive Computing), a satellite workshop of ETAPS'05.
• Program committee member and session chair, CDB 2004, SAWN 2005, AP2PC 2005.
• Towards Practical Constraint Query Algebras (NSF CAREER Grant, May 1998 - January 2004)
• The homepage of CSE259 (Algorithms & Complexity), Spring 2005
• The homepage of CSE350 (Advanced Database Topics), Fall 2003.
• CSE 300: Models of Interactive Computation, a graduate seminar, Spring 2003

CONTACT INFORMATION

Computer Science Dept. Brown University Box 1910 Providence, RI 02912

E-mail: dqg@cs.brown.edu

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

• Here is the source code (in C, all 580 lines of it) for a Sudoko puzzle solver that I wrote for fun. I challenge you to find a puzzle it cannot solve!
• I am the founding editor of an Acoustic Neuroma Patient Archive, an international informational resource for patients with a benign brain tumor known as Acoustic Neuroma.
• The home page of the Computer Science department of Brown University, where I received my Ph.D. degree.
• My PhD thesis advisor and mentor was Paris C. Kanellakis;  he died in Dec.1995 in an airplane crash.
• My closest colleague and mentor since has been Peter Wegner.
• My current and recent collaborators include Scott Smolka at SUNY Stony Brook, USA, Andrea Omicini and his group at DEIS, U. Bologna, Italy, Paul Attie at Northeastern, Amit Chakrabarti at Dartmouth, and Srinath Srinivasa at IIIT Bangalore, India.

dqg@cs.brown.edu bcj sudoko