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Yesterday, Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo and Goetz Graefe of HP Labs announced the list of accepted papers for the upcoming 2011 DBTEST Workshop, which will be held on June 13, 2011 in Athens as one of the co-located workshops of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Conference. Accepted Papers This year’s Workshop features eight [...]

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The submission deadline for the 4th Annual Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTEST) is coming up in the next few weeks – the submission deadline 28 March 2011. Chaired by Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo and Goetz Graefe of HP Labs, DBTEST offers the opportunity for academic and industrial researchers to gain mutual [...]

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In early November at the IBM Toronto CAS Conference I learned privately that Frank Tompa had been selected as an ACM Fellow for 2010. Recently ACM has publicly announced the recipients so I am pleased to congratulate Frank on his selection for For contributions to text-dominated and semi-structured data management. along with two other database-research [...]

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Yesterday I presented an Industrial track keynote talk, entitled “Turning dark clouds into silver linings” at the 2010 ACM CIKM Conference, which is being held from October 26-30 in Toronto at the Royal York Hotel. I was delighted to be invited by Kevyn Collins-Thompson of Microsoft Research, who’s also a University of Waterloo alumnus. Here [...]

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2008-2009 Taulbee Survey Since my post this past May regarding enrollment in Computer Science programs, the Computer Research Association has published the 2008-09 Taulbee survey of Computer Science and Engineering programs in the United States and Canada. The good news is that new undergraduate enrollment is up slightly from the previous year, though remaining considerably [...]

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On Friday 11 June I attended the first ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, an ACM-sponsored workshop co-located with the ACM SIGMOD conference held in Indianapolis. General chair Joe Hellerstein of UC Berkeley, along with PC co-chairs Surajit Chaudhuri of Microsoft Research and Mendel Rosenblum of Stanford University put together an interesting, thought-provoking program. In this [...]

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Shivnath Babu of Duke University and I have now finalized the program for the 2010 DBTEST Workshop. The Workshop, which is co-located with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD conference in Indianapolis, will be held on Monday 7 June 2010 in the Regency F ballroom at the Hyatt Regency hotel. Included in this year’s Workshop is a [...]

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Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario will host the first ACM-W Regional Celebration to be held in Canada on 22-23 October 2010. The conference is called the Ontario Celebration of Women In Computing (ONCWIC). Wendy Powley, a research associate at Queen’s and an organizer of ONCWIC, told me: This conference is modeled after the very successful [...]

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Based on feedback from authors, Shivnath Babu and I would like to announce that we are extending the paper submission deadline for the forthcoming DBTEST 2010 Workshop, which will be co-located with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD Conference in Indianapolis on Monday, June 7. You can find the call for papers here or on the DBTEST [...]

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Third International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest 2010) June 7, 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA In conjunction with the 2010 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference Workshop Overview New usage patterns, evolving hardware trends, and increased competition drive continuous innovation and expansion of data-processing systems. Commercial database vendors are adding new features related to ease of management, semistructured [...]

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