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Seminar Schedule

This quarter the talks will focus on Ontologies, E-Commerce, XML, Metadata, and the Semantic Web.
The title of the talks link to an abstract and a short biography.

DATE	TOPIC	SPEAKER
29 September 2000	Information Pragmatics: Lessons for the web from human languages (slides in Powerpoint format)	NAME	Chris Manning
		AFFILIATION	Stanford University
6 October 2000	Annotated Schemata - Providing XML Views over Relational Data (slides in Powerpoint format)	NAME	Michael Rys
		AFFILIATION	Microsoft
13 October 2000	Digital Workflow Concepts for Dynamic Reference Works (talk material)	NAME	Edward N. Zalta
		AFFILIATION	Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
20 October 2000	Web, Semantics, OIL and FUEL: Semantic Interoperability and learning on the Web (slides in Powerpoint format)	NAME	Amit Sheth
		AFFILIATION	University of Georgia and Taalee Inc
27 October 2000	Technology for Superimposed Information (slides in Powerpoint format)	NAME	Lois M. L. Delcambre
		AFFILIATION	Oregon Graduate Institue of Science and Technology
3 November 2000	Generic Model Management - Why We Need It and How to Get There (slides in html or Powerpoint format)	NAME	Phil Bernstein
		AFFILIATION	Microsoft
10 November 2000	Semantic Gadgets - Extending the Semantic Web to Physical Devices (slides in Powerpoint format)	NAME	Ora Lassila
		AFFILIATION	Nokia Research
17 November 2000	Building Petabyte Databases -- Commodity SuperComputing and SuperStorage (slides in html or Powerpoint format)	NAME	Jim Gray
		AFFILIATION	Microsoft
1 December 2000	Clio: A Tool for Data Mapping via Query Discovery (slides in html or Powerpoint format)	NAME	Laura Haas
		AFFILIATION	IBM Almaden Research Center
8 December 2000	Incremental Interoperability and an Industrial Revolution: Why Data Interoperability Fails, and How We Can Do Better (slides in Powerpoint format and a Paper in Word format)	NAME	Arnon S. Rosenthal
		AFFILIATION	The MITRE Corporation

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