For the Fall 2001 Semester, DBChat will be offered as a one credit seminar, under the course code CMSC828R (for information, click here).

All registered participants will be required to present and lead the class discussion (on one or more papers of your choice) at least once during the semester. PDF versions of the presented papers must be sent to adeli at umiacs.umd.edu at least two weeks prior to the presentation, so that they can be posted on the web page. In addition, all attendees are expected to read all the papers and participate actively in the discussions. There will be no exams or projects. On special request, students who are advanced in their research will also be able to present their own work for critical feedback.

We will plan a tentative set of topics / reading list and order of presentation in the first meeting on September 4. We will not meet on September 11 so as to give the first presenters a chance to review their selected papers. Every participant is expected to have decided on a topic to present and for a date to present this topic by September 11.

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. Please email louiqa at umiacs.umd.edu if you are also interested in registering for the class, or simply register through testudo.

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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Thu Jan 27 19:01:50 EST 2000
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