Spring 2002

Time/Place: Tuesdays, 14:00-15:15, AVW 3258

This is a once-a-week discussion/reading group for students, faculty and staff who are interested in examining current and emerging topics of interest in the database area and related research in information systems and networking. Example topical areas include

  • mobile access and mobile ad hoc networks
  • sensor databases and spatio-temporal data access
  • biological or bio-molecular databases and biological computation
  • E-services and extended transaction models
  • Data Warehousing
  • Data Streams
  • Approximation techniques (wavelets, histograms...) and their applications

    We will plan a tentative set of topics / reading list and order of presentation in the first meeting on January 29.

    While DBChat is targeted at graduate students seniors in computer science with a reasonably extensive background in DBMS, other graduate students are also encouraged to attend.

    Feel free to send any questions you have to adeli at umiacs.umd.edu.

    For more information on this and other happenings in the DB group, you can subscribe to the dbchat mailing list by sending a short message to dbchat-request at cs.umd.edu. You can also check out the dbchat web page at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/db/dbchat.html.

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