Past Semester Schedules

Fall 2005

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Aug 29	Christos Faloutsos CMU	Highlights from KDD 2005
Sep 5		Labor Day. No talk.
Sep 12	Jiawei Han Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Mining and Searching Graph Databases	Special time (1:30pm) and room (Wean 4623)!
Sep 16	Christian Böhm and Claudia Plant Ludwig Maximilians Universität München and UMIT	Clustering and Beyond --- New developments in density-based methods	Special date (Friday 09/16/2005) and time (2-3pm)
Sep 19	Jurij Leskovec CMU	Realistic, Mathematically Tractable Graph Generation and Evolution, Using Kronecker Multiplication
Sep 26	Jia-Yu Pan CMU	Learning with local and global consistency
Oct 3	Minglong Shao CMU	Dynamic reordering of nested loop joins
Oct 10	Ming Xiong Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies	A Deferrable Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Transactions Maintaining Data Freshness	CMU/Pitt joint DB seminar (note special time/place)
Oct 17		No talk
Oct 24	Shashank Pandit CMU	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	Speaking requirement talk
Oct 31		No talk
Nov 7	Jimeng Sun CMU	Neighborhood Formation and Anomaly Detection in Bipartite Graphs
Nov 14	Srinivasan Parthasarathy Ohio State University	Architecture Conscious Data Mining
Nov 21		No talk
Nov 28		No talk	SIGMOD deadline on Dec 01, 2005.
Dec 5	Shimin Chen Intel Research, Pittsburgh	Many-Core Projects at Intel Research Pittsburgh
Dec 8	Paul Larson Microsoft Research	View Matching for Outer-Join Views	Special date (Thursday 12/08/2005) and time (1:30pm)
Dec 12		x

Summer 2005

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
May 16		(No talk)
May 23	Stratos Papadomanolakis CMU	Database Support for Scientific Applications
May 30	Shahram Ghandeharizadeh USC	Delivery of Continuous Media in Ad-Hoc Networks of Wireless Devices
Jun 1	Stavros Harizopoulos CMU	QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine
Jun 2	Gerd Heber Cornell Theory Center	Databases in Support of Computational Materials
Jun 6	Amit Manjhi CMU	Tributaries and Deltas: Efficient and Robust Aggregation in Sensor Network Streams
Jun 13		(No talk)	SIGMOD
Jun 20	Shimin Chen CMU	Database-Centric Programming for Wide-Area Sensor Systems
Jun 27	Jia-Yu Pan CMU	Vivo: Visual Vocabulary Construction for Mining Biomedical Images
Jul 11	Amit Manjhi CMU	Tributaries and Deltas: Efficient and Robust Aggregation in Sensor Network Streams
Jul 18		x
Jul 25	Jia-Yu Pan	A measure of betweenness centrality based on random walks (paper by M. E. J. Newman)
Aug 15	Chris Colohan CMU	Optimistic Intra-Transaction Parallelism on Chip Multiprocessors	VLDB practice talk
Aug 22	Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen Datalogisk Institut	Using prioritized I/O to improve storage bandwidth in MySQL	VLDB practice talk

Spring 2005

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Jan 11	Rajmohan Rajaraman Northeastern University	Algorithms for Multi-Query Processing in Sensor Networks
Jan 24	Dr. Randal Burns The Johns Hopkins University	Bypass-Yield Caching: Achieving Scale for Federations of Astronomy Data
Jan 28	Dr. Philip A. Bernstein Microsoft Research	Generic Model Management: A Database Infrastructure for Schema Manipulation	Joint seminar with Pitt; Special time & location
Feb 14	Shimin Chen CMU	Prefetching for Database Memory Hierarchy Performance	Cancelled
Feb 21	Suman Nath CMU	Exploiting Redundancy for Robust Sensing
Feb 28	Stavros Harizopoulos CMU	QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine
Mar 14	Amit Manjhi CMU	Finding Frequent Items in Distributed Data Streams
Mar 21	Alan Sussman Computer Science Dept. and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland	Effective Indexing of Distributed Multidimensional Scientific Datasets
Mar 28	Spiros Papadimitriou CMU	Parameter-Free Spatial and Stream Mining
Apr 4	Minglong Shao CMU	MultiMap: Preserving disk locality for multidimensional datasets	Cancelled
Apr 11	Bianca Schroeder CMU	QoS for database
Apr 18	Yannis Kotidis AT&T	Snapshot Queries: Towards Data-Centric Sensor Networks	Joint seminar with Pitt
Apr 25	Sandeep Pandey CMU	User-Centric Web Crawling
May 2	Tiankai Tu CMU	A Computational Database System for Generating Unstructured Hexahedral Meshes with Billions of Elements
May 9	CMU	(No talk)

Fall 2004

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Aug 30		(No talk)	VLDB week
Sep 13	Mengzhi Wang CMU	Storage Device Performance Prediction with CART Models	Practice talk for MASCOTS
Sep 20	Amit Manjhi CMU	Finding Frequent Items in Distributed Data Streams
Sep 24	Panos Karditsas U.K.A.E.A.	Data management research issues for material properties data	Special time and location
Sep 27	Stratos Papadomanolakis CMU	The Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005	Joint meeting with Pitt
Oct 4	Anthony Tomasic CMU	Generalized Publish/Subscribe
Oct 5	Jim Gray Microsoft research	Data Challenges I'm Struggling With	Please note the special time and location
Oct 11	Leejay Wu CMU	Data Mining and Compression: Intuition, contradiction and reflection
Oct 15	David McWherter CMU	Improving Preemptive Prioritization via Statistical Characterization of OLTP Locking	In partial fulfillment of speaking requirement
Oct 18	Allen Luniewski IBM, Almaden	Autonomic Load Balancing in an On Demand Environment
Oct 25	Jia-Yu Pan CMU	MMSS: Multi-modal Story-oriented Video Summarization
Nov 1	Suman Nath CMU	Synopsis Diffusion for Robust Aggregation in Sensor Networks
Nov 8	Spiros Papadimitriou CMU	An Informal Overview of MDL
Nov 15	Christopher Olston CMU	VIQING: Visual Interactive QueryING
Nov 22	Carlos Guestrin CMU	Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks	Joint meeting with Pitt
Nov 29	Neoklis Polyzotis Univeristy of California, Santa Cruz	Approximate Query Answering Techniques for XML Databases
Dec 6	Anastassia Ailamaki CMU	A Scalability Service for Dynamic Web Applications
Dec 8	Leejay Wu CMU	Building and Evaluating Models in a Skewed World	For fulfillment of speaking requirement
Dec 13	Mark Derthick CMU	Integrated query and browse

Summer 2004

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
May 19	Jia-Yu Pan Carnegie Mellon	AutoSplit: Fast and Scalable Discovery of Hidden Variables in Stream and Multimedia Databases	PAKDD practice talk. Wednesday
May 24	Stavros Harizopoulos Carnegie Mellon	STEPS towards Cache-resident Transaction Processing	VLDB practice talk.
May 31	--	Memorial Day
Jun 7	Sandeep Pandey	Survey: Compressing Large Web Graphs
Jun 14	--	SIGMOD week
Jun 21	Tiankai Tu CMU	Extracting Hexahedral Mesh Structures from Balanced Linear Octrees
Jun 28	Christos Faloutsos Carnegie Mellon University	Two problems on graph mining	Joint meeting with Pitt
Jul 12		Informal meeting
Jul 19	Leejay Wu CMU	Preliminary speculations regarding the applicability of computational modeling to the issue of privacy (obfuscation) in databases
Jul 26	Mengzhi Wang CMU	Understanding I/O Workload Metrics
Aug 2	Shimin Chen CMU	Exploiting Intermediate Structures for Faster Hash Joins
Aug 9	Sandeep Pandey CMU	WIC: A General-Purpose Algorithm for Monitoring Web Information Sources	VLDB practice talk
Aug 16	Edoardo Airoldi CMU	Recovering Latent Time-Series from their Observed Sums: Network tomography with Particle Filters.	KDD practice talk
Aug 16	Minglong Shao CMU	Clotho: decouping memory page layout from storage organization	VLDB practice talk
Aug 23	Vladimir Zadorozhny University of Pittsburgh	A Framework for Extending the Synergy between Query Optimization and MAC Layer in Sensor Networks	Joint seminar with University of Pittsburgh; Practice talk for 1st International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks
Aug 25	Anastassia Ailamaki	Database Architectures for New Hardware	VLDB practice talk (note the special location)

Spring 2004

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Jan 14	--	Kickoff	WeH 4625
Jan 21	Niki Trigoni Cornell	Energy-efficient Data Management in Sensor Networks	Pitt/CMU joint seminar. SENSQ 5317
Jan 28	Sunita Sarawagi IIT Bombay / CMU	Scalable, Interactive, Learning-Based Tools for Data Integration
Feb 4	Soumen Chakrabarti IIT Bombay / CMU	Dividing and Conquering the Web: Federated, Specialized, Fine-grained Search	CMU/Pitt joint seminar.
Feb 11	Minglong Shao Carnegie Mellon	Clotho: Decoupling Memory Page Layout from Storage Organization
Feb 18	Jia-Yu Pan Carnegie Mellon	Data Mining with ICA
Feb 25	Sandeep Pandey Carnegie Mellon	Maximizing Timeliness and Completeness in Web Monitoring
Mar 3	Bianca Schröder Carnegie Mellon	Priority Mechanisms for OLTP and Transactional Web Applications	ICDE practice talk.
Mar 10	--	Spring break
Mar 17	Shimin Chen Carnegie Mellon	Improving Hash Join Performance Through Prefetching	ICDE practice talk.
Mar 24	Jimeng Sun Carnegie Mellon	Querying about the Past, the Present and the Future in Spatio-Temporal Databases	ICDE practice talk.
Mar 31	Leejay Wu Carnegie Mellon	The Value of Information
Apr 7	Spiros Papadimitriou Carnegie Mellon	Incremental Pattern Discovery on Multiple Streams
Apr 14	Anhai Doan UIUC	Evolving and Self-Managing Data Integration Systems	Pitt/CMU joint seminar. SENSQ 5317, 11:00am
Apr 21	David McWherter Carnegie Mellon	The Case for Preemptive Lock Scheduling in OLTP Workloads
Apr 26	Guy Lohman IBM Almaden	Advanced and Autonomic Query Optimization at Almaden Research Center	Special seminar
Apr 28	Nikos Hardavellas Carnegie Mellon	SORDS: Just-In-Time Streaming of Temporally-Correlated Shared Data
May 5	Christopher Olston Carnegie Mellon	Early Adventures in User-Centric Web Search
May 12	Stratos Papadomanolakis Carnegie Mellon	AutoPart: Automating Schema Design for Large Scientific Databases using Data Partitioning	SSDBM practice talk.

Fall 2003

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Sep 3	Spiros Papadimitriou Computer Science Dept., CMU	Adaptive, Hands-Off Stream Mining	Joint Pitt/CMU meeting. VLDB'03 practice talk. SENSQ 5317, UPitt, 4.30pm.
Sep 10	Christopher Olston Computer Science Dept., CMU	Distributed Top-K Monitoring	Cancelled
Sep 17	Christopher Olston Computer Science Dept., CMU	Distributed Top-K Monitoring	WeH 8220
Sep 24	Deepayan Chakrabarti Computer Science Dept., CMU	Epidemic Spreading in Real Networks: An Eigenvalue Viewpoint	SRDS 2003 talk. WeH 4615A
Oct 1	Stratos Papadomanolakis Computer Science Dept., CMU	AutoPart: Automating Schema Design for Scientific Databases through Data Partitioning	Cancelled
Oct 8	Stratos Papadomanolakis Computer Science Dept., CMU	AutoPart: Automating Schema Design for Scientific Databases through Data Partitioning
Oct 15	--	PDL Retreat
Oct 22	Vladislav Shkapenyuk Computer Science Dept., CMU	Staged Database Systems	Cancelled WeH 4615A
Oct 29	Vladislav Shkapenyuk Computer Science Dept., CMU	Staged Database Systems
Nov 5	Jimeng Sun Computer Science Dept., CMU	Future is the key--Analysis of Predictive Spatio-Temporal Queries	Joint Pitt/CMU seminar SENSQ 5317, UPitt
Nov 12	--	Cookies	No speaker.
Nov 19	Mohamed Sharaf Computer Science Dept., UPitt	Balancing Energy Efficiency and Quality of Aggregate Data in Sensor Networks	Joint CMU/Pitt seminar WeH 4625
Nov 26	--	Thanksgiving
Dec 3	Mengzhi Wang Computer Science Dept., CMU	Storage Device Performance Prediction Using CART Models	WeH 4615A Speaking requirement talk
Dec 10	--	Informal presentations

Summer 2003

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
May 28	Oleg Shigiltchoff University of Pittsburgh	Multiversion Broadcast Data Organization	CMU/Pitt Joint Seminar
Jun 4	Vladislav Shkapenyuk Carnegie Mellon University	Gigascope: A Stream Database for Network Applications	SIGMOD practice talk
Jun 25	P.Krishna Reddy Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India	Speculative locking protocols to improve performance for distributed database systems	WeH 4623
Jul 1	Agma Traina and Caetano Traina Jr. University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil	Similarity Search on Medical Images: A Case Study in the Clinical Hospital at USP	Special DB Seminal. Tuesday July 1st, 1.00pm, WeH 4623
Jul 2	Spiros Papadimitriou Computer Science Dept., CMU	Cross-Outlier Detection	SSTD'03 practice talk. WeH 4623. Note later time: 5pm
Jul 23	Amit Manjhi Computer Science Dept., CMU	Distributed Generation of Dynamic Content	WeH 4623
Jul 30	David McWherter Computer Science Dept., CMU	Paper Presentation: "Concurrency Control: Methods, Performance, and Analysis"	WeH 4623
Aug 1	Bianca Schroeder Computer Science Dept., CMU	A survey of transaction processing: concurrency control and recovery	Special DB Seminar. Note room/date/time: WeH 7227, Friday Aug. 1st, 3.30pm.
Aug 6	Vladislav Shkapenyuk Computer Science Dept., CMU	Paper presentation: Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique	WeH 4623
Aug 8	Jure Leskovec Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia	Linear Programming Boosting for Uneven Datasets	ICML'03 practice talk. Note different date/time/place: Fri Aug 08, 12pm, WeH 7220.
Aug 13	Jiri Schindler ECE, CMU	Lachesis: Robust Database Storage Management Based on Device-specific Performance Characteristics	VLDB'03 practice talk. WeH 4623.
Aug 18	Leejay Wu Computer Science Dept., CMU	Fast Estimation of Fractal Dimension and Correlation Integral	FractalKDD'03 practice talk. Note special date/room/time: Mon Aug 18, 1:00pm,WeH 4625
Aug 20	Mengzhi Wang Computer Science Dept., CMU	Storage Performance Prediction using Workload Characterization	WeH 4623
Aug 27	Alexandros Labrinidis University of Pittsburgh	Balancing Performance and Data Freshness in Web Database Servers	Joint Pitt/CMU meeting. VLDB'03 practice talk. WeH 4623

Spring 2003

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Jan 17	Avigdor Gal Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	You've PROBABLY got mail - or - Data Obsolescence	Joint Pitt/CMU meeting. Note special date/time/location: Fri 17 Jan, 3.30pm, WeH 7220.
Jan 22	George Tzanetakis Computer Science Dept., CMU	Music Analysis and Retrieval Systems for Audio Signals	WeH 4623
Jan 29	Yufei Tao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and CMU	Novel Forms of Nearest Neighbor Queries in Spatio-Temporal Applications	WeH 4623 4.30pm
Feb 5		Open
Feb 12		Open
Feb 19	Tiankai Tu Computer Science Dept., CMU	Etree -- A database-oriented method for generating large octree meshes	Note different location: NSH 3002
Feb 26	Spiros Papadimitriou Computer Science Dept., CMU	LOCI: Fast Outlier Detection Using the Local Correlation Integral	Joint Pitt/CMU meeting. ICDE'03 practice talk. NOTE Location: Conference Room #5317, Sennott Square Building, Pitt
Mar 5	Tanu Malik Johns Hopkins University	SkyQuery: A Web Service Approach to Federate Databases	WeH 4623
Mar 12	4 PhD Students Computer Science Dept., CMU	Research in progress - Part I	WeH 4623
Mar 19	Ahmed M. Amer University of Pittsburgh	Adaptive Cache Replacement Policies	Joint Pitt/CMU meeting. WeH 4623
Mar 26	--	Spring break
Apr 2	4 PhD Students Computer Science Dept., CMU	Research in progress - Part II	WeH 4623
Apr 9	Stratos Papadomanolakis ECE, CMU	Automated Schema Partitioning for Large Databases	WeH 4623
Apr 16	Stavros Harizopoulos Computer Science Dept., CMU	Staged Database Systems	Thesis proposal practice talk. WeH 4623
Apr 24	Michael Stonebraker M.I.T. and Rocket Software	Visionary: A Next Generation Visualization System for Data bases	Note special date/time/location: Thursday, April 24, 11.00 am, WeH 4623
Apr 30	Lise Getoor University of Maryland	Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models	Joint Pitt/CMU meeting. NOTE Location: Conference Room #5317, Sennott Square Building, Pitt
May 7	Bianca Schroeder Computer Science Dept., CMU	Improving the Performance of Static and Dynamic Requests at a Busy Web Server	Thesis proposal practice talk.

Fall 2002

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Sep 11	Mengzhi Wang Computer Science Dept. CMU	Capturing the Spatio-Temporal Behavior of Real Traffic Data	PERFORMANCE'02 practice talk. Kickoff meeting!
Sep 18	Alexandros Labrinidis Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh	View Materialization for the Web	Joint pitt/cmu meeting. WeH 4625
Sep 25	Jia-Yu Pan Computer Science Dept. CMU	"Geoplot": Spatial Data Mining on Video Libraries	CIKM'02 practice talk. WeH 4625
Oct 2	Jim Gemmell Microsoft Research	MyLifeBits: Fulfilling the Memex Vision	Note special time: 3.30pm, WeH 4625
Oct 9	Spiros Papadimitriou Computer Science Dept. CMU	Stream Data Mining Using Wavelets	CSD speaking skill talk. WeH 4625
Oct 16	Deepayan Chakrabarti CALD, CMU	F4: Large-Scale Automated Forecasting using Fractals	CIKM'02 practice talk. Joint pitt/cmu meeting. Location: Conference Room #6329, Sennott Square Building, UPitt.
Oct 23	Jiri Schindler ECE, CMU	Lachesis: A storage device access patterns advisor for database systems	WeH 4625
Oct 31	Joe Hellerstein UC Berkeley	Telegraph, TinyDB and PIER: Three takes on adaptive dataflow	Joint SDI/LCS/DB seminar. Note special date/time/location: Thursday, October 31st, WeH 8220, Noon.
Nov 6	everyone	SIGMOD cookies!	Informal meeting; no speaker because of SIGMOD deadline. WeH 4625
Nov 13	Jia-Yu Pan Mohamed A. Sharaf Computer Science Dept. CMU Computer Science Dept. UPitt	(1) FastCARS: Fast,Correlation-Aware Sampling for Network Data Mining. (2) Semantic-Based Delivery of OLAP Summary Tables in Wireless Environments.	Joint pitt/cmu meeting. (1) is GlobeCOM'02 practice talk. Location: WeH 4625. Note earlier time: 3.30pm
Nov 20	David McWherter & Bianca Schroeder Computer Science Dept. CMU	Breakdown of resource utilization in TPC-C transaction processing	WeH 4625
Nov 22	C. Mohan IBM Almaden	Caching Technologies for Web Applications	Special DB Seminar. Please note date/time/place: Friday, Nov. 22, 1.30pm - 3.00pm, WeH 4623
Nov 27	--	Thanksgiving
Dec 4	Renée J. Miller University of Toronto	Clio: Translating Web Data	Note special time: 3.30pm, WeH 4625
Dec 11	Stavros Harizopoulos Computer Science Dept. CMU	A Case for Staged Database Systems	CIDR'03 practice talk. Joint pitt/cmu meeting. NOTE Location: Conference Room #5317, Sennott Square Building, Pitt.
Dec 18		Open

Summer 2002

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
May 15	Leejay Wu Computer Science Dept., CMU	Designing Distance Functions
May 22		Open
May 29		Open
Jun 5	Christos Faloutsos Computer Science Dept., CMU	Data mining the Internet - Time Series
Jun 12	Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Stavros Harizopoulos Univ. of Tsukuba, CMU	SIGMOD 2002 discussion
Jun 19	Christos Faloutsos Computer Science Dept., CMU	Data mining the Internet - SVD
Jun 26		Open
Jul 3		Open
Jul 10		Open
Jul 17		Open
Jul 24		Open
Jul 31		Open
Aug 7		Open
Aug 14		Open
Aug 21		Open
Aug 28		Open

Spring 2002

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Jan 16		No talk.	Casual chat.
Jan 23	Dr. Hiroyuki Kitagawa Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, University of Tsukuba, Japan	Integration of Multiple Dissemination-based Information SourcesUsing Source Data Arrival Properties
Feb 6		No talk.	Casual chat.
Feb 13	Alan Berfield University of Pittsburgh	A Scheme for Integrating e-Services in Establishing Virtual Enterprises
Feb 20	Mengzhi Wang Computer Science Dept., CMU	Data Mining Meets Performance Evaluation: Fast Algorithms for Modeling BurstyTraffic	ICDE Practice Talk
Feb 27	Dimitris Margaritis Computer Science Dept. CMU	Probabilistic Model Structure from Data	Job Practice Talk.
Mar 4	Bruce Lindsay IBM Almaden Research Center	Data When You Want It, Where You Want It	Notice the special date and location, Wean Hall 5409. Cookie served at 3:30pm.
Mar 5	Bruce Lindsay IBM Almaden Research Center	Hash Joins in DB2 UDB: the Inside Story	WeH 8220, Tuesday 3/5, 11:30am
Mar 13	Tiankai Tu Computer Science Dept.	Database methods for physical simulation	Work in progress.
Mar 20	Stavros Harizopoulos Computer Science Dept. CMU	Affinity scheduling in staged database systems	Speaking requirement fulfillment.
Mar 27	Deepayan Chakrabarti CALD, CMU	Fast Time Series Forecasting
Apr 10		No talk	Casual chat
Apr 17	Shimin Chen Computer Science Dept. CMU	Fractal Prefetching B+trees: Optimizing Both Cache and Disk Performance	SIGMOD Practice Talk
Apr 24	Spiros Papadimitriou Computer Science Dept., CMU	Stream Data Mining Using Wavelets
May 1		Open
May 8		Open

Fall 2001

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Sep 7	Anastassia Ailamaki CMU	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	VLDB Practice Talk
Sep 14	Everyone	Database Group Meeting
Sep 21	Jia-Yu Pan CMU	Prime Number Sampling for Network Data Mining
Sep 28	Phillip Gibbons Bell Labs and CMU	New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers
Oct 5	Vladimir I. Zadorozhny University of Pittsburgh	Efficient Query Processing in a Mediator for Web Data Sources
Oct 8	Jim Gray Microsoft Research	Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering	Time: 4:30pm Place: Doherty Hall 2315
Nov 2	Christos Papadimitriou University of California, Berkeley	Algorithmic Problems Related to the Internet (U Pitt Distinguished Lecture)	Time: 10:30 Place: 2nd floor LRDC auditorium, 3939 O'Hara St.
Nov 16	Stan Zdonik Brown University	Pervasive Data Management (U Pitt Distinguished Lecture)	Time: 10:30 Place: 2nd floor LRDC auditorium, 3939 O'Hara St.
Nov 30	Mira Balaban Department of Indormation Systems Engineering Ben-Gurion University, ISRAEL	Issues in Intergrity enforcement -- additivity and effect preservation

Summer 2001

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
May 25	Jia-Yu Pan CMU	VideoTrails
Jun 1	Ernesto Cuadros Vargas CMU (visiting)	Automatic 3D Object Modeling and Recognition using Growing Neural Gas Neural Networks / FastMap Algorithm Improvements
Jul 6	Stavros Harizopoulos CMU	Cache-conscious query scheduling for high performance DBMS servers
Jul 13	Panos K. Chrysanthis University of Pittsburgh Adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon	Improving Access Time to Air Caches While Saving Energy
Jul 27	Leejay Wu CMU	A random walk through dimensionality reduction
Aug 3		Open
Aug 10	Dimitris Margaritis CMU	NetCube: A Scalable Tool for Fast Data Mining and Compression
Aug 24	Spiros Papadimitriou CMU	Effective Prediction of Web-user Accesses: A Data Mining Approach

Spring 2001

Date	Speaker(s)	Talk	Comments
Feb 23	Everyone CMU Databases Group	Kickoff Meeting
Mar 2	Everyone	DBgroup meeting: Research Take 1
Mar 9	Everyone Carnegie Mellon	DBgroup meeting: Research Take 2
Mar 16	Spiros Papadimitriou Carnegie Mellon	XML and Semistructured Data
Mar 23	--	SCS Open House
Mar 30	--	Spring break
Apr 6	Rich Caruana Carnegie Mellon	Talk CANCELLED
Apr 13	Phil Gibbons CMU and Bell Labs	Distinct Sampling for Approximate Queries and Reports
Apr 20	Shimin Chen Carnegie Mellon	Improving Index Performance Through Prefetching	Practice talk for Sigmod'01
Apr 27	Christos Faloutsos CMU	Introduction to Data Mining
May 4	Minos Garofalakis Bell Laboratories	Data Mining Meets Network Management: The NEMESIS Project	Pizza - WeH 8220, noon Talk - WeH 4623, 2pm