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The Fifth International Workshop on Testing Database Systems will be held on 21 May 2012, co-located with the ACM SIGMOD Conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona. The aim of the Workshop is to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss the complexities of testing DBMS systems and applications: There is significant interest in testing database systems [...]

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This year’s DBTEST Workshop, being organized by Florian Waas of EMC/Greenplum and Eric Lo of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is co-located with the 2012 ACM SIGMOD Conference and will be held on Monday, 21 May 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Eric and Florian, along with the workshop’s program committee which includes Guy Lohman (IBM), Jens Dittrich [...]

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A tremendous asset to the database systems research community is the symbiotic relationship between academia and industry. Historically, that collaboration has resulted in a myriad of joint research projects, research prototypes, and commercial successes. Evidence of that relationship continues today, particularly so with the recent spawning of numerous commercial initiatives such as Hadapt, VoltDB, CouchDB, [...]

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One of my personal highlights in attending last week’s ACM SIGMOD 2011 conference in Athens was to take in a tutorial [1] on Thursday morning entitled Data Management Over Flash Memory, presented by Ioannis Koltsidas of IBM Zurich and Stratis Viglas of the University of Edinburgh. Here was the abstract: Flash SSDs are quickly becoming [...]

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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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Following three successful DBTEST Workshops in 2008, 2009, and 2010, the 4th International Workshop on Testing Database Systems will take place on June 13th, 2011 in Athens, Greece, co-located with the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Conference. Goetz Graefe of HP Labs and Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo are co-chairs of this year’s DBTEST workshop, [...]

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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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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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