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Welcome to the homepage of the

New England Database Society

sponsored by Sun Microsystems

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NEDS

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

3-4 PM

Refreshments (wine and cheese) served, Volen 101.

4-5:30 PM

Talk by invited speaker and discussion (also in Volen 101 unless the group is too large).

6-? PM

Informal dinner at a local restaurant for those who are interested, after some of the meetings.

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

 

December 11, 2009:  Philip A. Bernstein, Microsoft Research 
Hyder: A Transactional Indexed Record Manager for Shared Flash Storage

 

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 Olga Papaemmanouil olga@cs.brandeis.edu 

List of members

 

Michael Brodie, Verizon
Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University
Cindy Chen, U.Mass/Lowell
Mitch Cherniack, Brandeis University
Kajal Claypool, MIT Lincoln Labs
Robert Futrelle, Northeastern University
Yanlei Diao, U.Mass/Amherst
Dina Goldin, MIT Broad Inst. and Brown U.
Eric Hughes, MITRE Corp.
George Kollios, Boston University
Rivka Ladin, Compaq Corp.
Ken C.K. Lee, UMass Dartmouth
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
Olga Papaemmanouil, Brandeis University
Joan Peckham, URI
Bill Robinson, Verizon
Arnie Rosenthal, MITRE Corp.
Elke Rundensteiner, WPI
Betty Salzberg, Northeastern University
Sunil Sarin, Netezza
Ed Sciore, Boston College
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University
Michael Siegel, MIT
Dan Simovici, U. Mass / Boston
Gary Sockut, MIT Lincoln Labs
Mike Stonebraker, MIT
Stan Zdonik, Brown University
 

 

Past meetings

·       Sept 11, 2009:  Peter Haas, IBM Almaden (PDF slides are here)
Some Tools and Techniques for Managing Uncertain Data

·       May 8, 2009:  Umesh Dayal, HP Labs
Mixed Workload Management for Enterprise-Scale Business Intelligence Systems

·       March. 27, 2009:  Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University
Data Management for Location-Based Services

·       Feb. 22, 2008: Peter Haas, IBM Almaden (CANCELLED)
Towards a Synopsis Warehouse

·       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,

·       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.

Last updated on May 8, 2009 by Olga Papaemmanouil olga AT cs.brandeis.edu,