CS 545: Database Seminar - Spring Quarter 1997

Fridays, 3:15 - 4:30
Gates building, Room B12

David Maluf (maluf@infolab.stanford.edu use for queries),
Gio Wiederhold, (gio@cs.stanford.edu).

Topics

We will focus on database and web type interaction, often with a view of what is needed for new initiatives. Areas of interest will include the use of DBs in Genomics and other rapidly developing areas.

Planned schedule for CS545

• Friday April 4: Speaker: Jim Horning from Intertrust; Topic: Electronic Commerce in Intellectual Property.
• Friday April 11: Speaker Mike Walker/Tod Klingler at Incyte, Topic: Database Use in Genomics. Issues in database development and data mining for genomic data at Incyte.
• Friday April 18: Speaker: Mark Stefik, Xerox PARC, Topic: Language Design meets Law in Motion meets Social Issues meets Commerce in Digital Publishing
• Friday April 25: Speaker: Anthony Kosky, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Topic: Transforming Databases with Recursive data Structures.
• Friday May 2: Speaker: Shalom Tsur, Hitachi, Topic: Dynamic Itemset Counting (DIC).
• Friday May 9 Speaker: Anthony Tomasic, Inria, France; Topic: Partial Answers for Unavailable Data Sources .
• Friday May 16: Speaker: Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Topic: Development of Semantically Interoperable Information Systems
• Friday May 23: Speaker: Lutz Wegner, Universitaet Gesamthochschule Kassel, Gemany; Topic: Interface Issues in the ESCHER Visual Database Editor.
• Friday May 30: Speaker: Peter Karp, AI Center, SRI International; Topic: Knowledge-Base Management Tools for Constructing a Knowledge Base of Biochemical Pathways .
• Friday June 6: Speaker: Victor M. Markowitz, Berkeley National Lab ; Topic: Developing and Exploring Scientific Databases with the OPM Data Management Tools.

End of Schedule, Happy Summer Break