Welcome to the homepage of the New England Database Society sponsored by Sun Microsystems
NEDS

Welcome to the homepage of the New England Database Society, founded in October 2001.  We meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at Brandeis University. The tentative meeting schedule is as follows:

A map of the direction to the Brandeis campus, with the Volen building highlighted, can be found here.   Please park in the parking lot that is indicated in gray on the far left of that map.

Upcoming meetings

Feb. 22, 2008: Peter Haas, IBM Almaden
Towards a Synopsys Warehouse

Mailing lists

There are two mailing lists for our society:

           neds - all non-student participants in NEDS
 stneds - student participants in NEDS

To join a mailing list, or to post to a list, please contact Mitch Cherniack mfc@cs.brandeis.edu

List of members

 

Michael Brodie, Verizon Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University Cindy Chen, U.Mass/Lowell Mitch Cherniack, Brandeis University Kajal Claypool, Oracle Robert Futrelle, Northeastern University Dina Goldin, MIT Broad Inst. and Brown U. Eric Hughes, MITRE Corp. George Kollios, Boston University Rivka Ladin, Compaq Corp. Sangdong Lee, Brown University Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State Samuel Madden, MIT Stu Madnick, MIT Murali Mani, WPI Frank Manola, MITRE Corp.

Gerome Miklau, U.Mass/Amherst Gail Mitchell, BBN Elizabeth O'Neil, U.Mass/Boston Pat O'Neil, U.Mass/Boston Joan Peckham, URI Bill Robinson, Verizon Arnie Rosenthal, MITRE Corp. Elke Rundensteiner, WPI Betty Salzberg, Northeastern University Ed Sciore, Boston College Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University Michael Siegel, MIT Dan Simovici, U. Mass / Boston Mike Stonebraker, MIT Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE Corp. Stan Zdonik, Brown University

Past meetings

• Jan. 25, 2008: H V Jagadish, Univ. of Michigan
  Making Database Systems Usable
  

• Oct 12, 2007: Jun Yang, Duke University (PDF slides are here)
  Data-Driven Processing in Sensor Networks

• May 18, 2007: Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania
  Querying and Managing Provenance though User Views in Scientific Workflows
  

• Apr. 20, 2007: Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo Research and University of Wisconsin
  Community Systems: The World Online

• Mar. 2, 2007: Laura Haas, IBM Almaden
  Beauty and the Beast: The Theory and Practice of Information Integration

• Feb. 16, 2007: Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland
  MauveDB: Managing Uncertain Data using Statistical Models

• Dec. 8, 2006: Donald Kossman, ETH Zurich
  Processing Data Streams with XQuery

• Dec. 1, 2006: Ken Salem, University of Waterloo
  Coordinating the Database and Storage Tiers

• Sep. 8, 2006: Hank Korth, Lehigh University
  Multithreaded Architectures and Database Query Processing

• May 5, 2006: Natassa Ailamaki, CMU
  Data Management Technology for Scientific Applications

• April 28, 2006: Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research
  Issues in Data Cleaning

• Mar. 24, 2006: Michael J. Carey, BEA
  Data Delivery in a Service-Oriented World: The BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform

• Jan. 27, 2006: Dean Jacobs, salesforce.com
  Hosted Enterprise Services

• Dec. 9, 2005: Ken Salem, University of Waterloo -- CANCELLED
  Database Systems and Storage Virtualization

• Oct. 21, 2005: Christopher Olston, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  User-Centric Web Crawling

• Sep. 30, 2005: Guy M. Lohman, IBM Almaden Research Center,  San Jose, CA;
  It's the PEOPLE, Stupid! - Self-Managing Research at IBM Almaden

• May. 20, 2005: M. Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada;
  Similarity-based Search of Time Series and Trajectory Data

• March. 25, 2005: Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University;
  Handling Uncertainty in Sensor Databases

• Feb. 11, 2005: Michael Kifer, SUNY, Stony Brook;
  A Logical Framework for Web Service Discovery

• Jan. 28, 2005: Adam Bosworth, Google;
  Database Requirements in the Age of Scalable Services

• Dec. 3, 2004: Avi Silberschatz, Yale University;
  Next-Generation Information Systems (PDF slides are here)

• Nov. 19, 2004: Kenneth Ross, Columbia University;
  Architecture Sensitive Design of Database Engines (PDF slides are here)

• Oct. 15, 2004: Jignesh Patel, University of Michigan

• Sep. 24, 2004 : Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA (PPT slides are here)

• Apr. 23, 2004: Alon Halevy, University of Washington

• Mar. 26. 2004: Dave Lomet, Microsoft Research

• Feb. 6, 2004: Dieter Gawlick, Oracle.

• Jan. 23, 2004: Renee Miller, University of Toronto. (PPT slides are here)

• Dec. 5, 2003: Michael Carey, BEA Systems Inc. (PPT slides are here)

• Sep. 26, 2003: Bhavani Thuraisingham, NSF (PPT slides are here)

• May 9, 2003: C. Mohan, IBM Almaden Research Center

• Apr. 11, 2003: Lise Getoor, University of Maryland

• Mar. 28, 2003: Michael Stonebraker, MIT and Peter Richardson, Rocket Software

• Feb. 21, 2003: David Maier, Oregon Health & Science University (PPT slides are here, 400K)

• Jan. 17, 2003: Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western (relevant papers in PDF are here)

• Dec. 13, 2002: Sam Madden, UC Berkeley (PPT slides are here, 6 Meg)

• Nov. 15, 2002: Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University

• Oct. 11, 2002: Joseph M. Hellerstein, UC Berkeley

• Sep. 13, 2002: Jennifer Widom, Stanford University 

• May. 17, 2002: Philip Bernstein, Microsoft Research (PPT slides are here, 300K)

• Apr. 12, 2002: Dennis Shasha, NYU. (PPT slides are here, 100K)

• Feb. 22, 2002: Michael Franklin, Berkeley.

• Jan. 25, 2002: David DeWitt, University of Wisconsin.

• Dec. 14, 2001: Anatassia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University.

• Nov. 9, 2001: Charlie Perkins, VP of Data Engineering, Fidelity.

• Oct. 12, 2001: Our inaugural meeting, with a talk by Jim Gray.

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