Keynote talk by Stefano Ceri

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Stefano Ceri will give a keynote talk at the DBDBD on 2 December 2011. Ceri is professor of Database Systems at  Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He co-authored over 250 articles in International Journals and Conference Proceedings, and is co-author or editor of many international books, including best-selling classics like “Conceptual database design: an Entity-relationship approach” with Carlo Batini and Shamkant Navathe. His research interests cover many aspects of database management systems, including distributed databases,  deductive and active databases, streaming data, object orientation, XML query languages, as well as design methods for data-intensive web sites.

Professor Ceri was awarded the prestigious IDEAS Advanced Grant, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), on Search Computing: Search computing enables answering questions via a constellation of dynamically selected, cooperating, search services. Search computing should enable answering complex queries like: “Who are the strongest European competitors on software ideas?”, “Who is the best doctor to cure insomnia in a nearby hospital?”, or very important for poor PhD students, “Where can I attend an interesting conference in my field closest to a sunny beach?”

More information on: search-computing.it

Draft tutorial program on-line

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A draft Big Data tutorial program for Wednesday 30 November and Thursday 1 December is now on-line. The tutorial is almost completely booked. There will be no possibility for on-site registration for the tutorial.

To get the most out of our limited time together, we ask you to come prepared so that we can save time on getting your work environment in place. Please follow the Big Data Course Instructions and have this in place and functional before the tutorial; we will not spend time getting it in place on the spot.

Keynote lecture by Jimmy Lin at Big Data tutorial

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Jimmy Lin will give a keynote lecture at the SIKS/BigGrid Big Data tutorial that preceeds the DBDBD on 30 November and 1 December 2011. Dr. Lin, who holds a PhD from MIT, is associate professor in the iSchool at the University of Maryland. He also has appointments in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and the Department of Computer Science at Maryland. Lin works at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR), with a recent emphasis on scalable algorithm design and large-data issues. He directs the recently-formed Cloud Computing Center, an interdisciplinary group which explores the many aspects of cloud computing as it impacts technology, people, and society. He is also a member of both the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab (CLIP) and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Lin worked on Cloudera, which aims to bring Hadoop MapReduce to the enterprise, and is currently spending a sabbatical at Twitter

See: Big Data Tutorial

Accommodation

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If you want to stay over to combine the DBDBD with our Big Data tutorial, or you want to have some fun in down town Enschede, you can book one of our recommended accommodations on, or close to, the university campus (NB one night stay on 30 Nov. is included for SIKS PhD students that register for the BIG Data tutorial: SIKS members do not have to book this day)

  • Logica:  Bed & Breakfast / Student Housing Cooperation On Campus. (Please state the conference as reference)
    • Single room EUR 50,50 including breakfast
    • Single room basic EUR 47.50 including breakfast
    • Double room EUR 74,50 including breakfast
    • Double room, basic EUR 68,00 including breakfast
  • Drienerburght: On Campus. (Please state the conference as reference)
    • Single room, including breakfast EUR 74,00
    • Double room, including breakfast EUR 94,50
  • De Broeierd: 5-10min walk to the conference. Prices depend on factors like booking date:
    • Single room without breakfast between EUR 85 and 150
    • Double room without breakfast between EUR 95 and 150

DBDBD History

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No one here in Twente really knows how many Dutch-Belgian Database Days there have been, but there are people here that remember editions of the day in the 1980′s. Below a list of the last few DBDBDs, the ones that left trails on the web.