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2019 ACM SIGMOD/PODS, Amsterdam, NL, June 30 – July 5, 2019
SIGMOD/PODS is the flagship ACM conference on data management. SIGMOD 2019 was held in the lively Dutch city of Amsterdam. The venue was packed with over 1000 participants registering for the conference. Along with the research paper presentations and demonstrations, the conference had outstanding keynotes, a lively panel discussion and an excellent banquet accompanied by (…)
13 – 19 July, 2017, Athens, Greece – First ACM Europe Summer School on Data Science
Eleni attended the very first ACM Europe Summer School on Data Science that took place in Athens in July. The school covered a broad range of subjects in Big Data and Data Science in the form of six one-day-long courses. Each course consisted of formal lectures in the morning, and practical hands-on exercises in the (…)
SIGMOD/PODS 2017
Another year has gone by and early summer is the time for one of the most exciting data management conferences of the season – SIGMOD/PODS. If for some reason you wandered through the web and landed here by chance: SIGMOD/PODS is the leading international ACM conference considering the area of Database Management and Data engineering. (…)
Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar: “Robust Performance in Database Query Processing”
Angelos and Tahir attended the Dagstuhl seminar on “Robust Performance in Database Query Processing” from May 28 to June 2, 2017 https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=17222. Schloss Dagstuhl is a meeting center for computer science research located in Saarland, Germany. Since its foundation in 1990, it has hosted several seminars and workshops, bringing together researchers and practitioners from both (…)
Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar:” Rack-scale Computing”
Schloss Dagstuhl is a venue in the Saarland area of southwest Germany that specializes in week long seminars in computer science. The seminars typically start on a Sunday evening and last until the following Friday with an audience of around 40 participants from the international world of academia and industry. Even though the activities are (…)
Impressions from HPTS 2015
HPTS (high performance transaction systems, http://hpts.ws/) is a series of informal events that brings together a diverse group of database system researchers and practitioners. It started out 30 years ago with the focus on transaction processing systems and evolved to encompass all aspects of large scale systems. The main attractiveness of the workshop is in (…)