| Date | Speaker | Title (link to abstract) | Bio | Slides
|
|---|
| Jan. 13
| Pat Helland, Free agent
| If You Have Too Much Data, then "Good Enough" Is Good Enough
| bio
| slides (pptx)
|
| Jan. 20
| Magda Balazinska, Univ. of Washington
| Skew and Failures during Parallel Data Processing
| bio
| slides (pdf)
|
| Jan. 27
| Arvind Arasu, Microsoft Research
| Programmable Similarity for Record Matching
| bio
| slides (pdf)
|
| Feb. 3
| Lars Backstrom, Facebook
| Network Bucket Testing
| bio
| --
|
| Feb. 10
| Panos Ipeirotis, NYU
| Crowdsourcing: Quality Management and Scalability
| bio
| --
|
| Feb. 17
| Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo! Research
| Content Recommendation on Yahoo! Sites
| bio
| --
|
| Feb. 24
| Panos Kalnis, KAUST
| Mizan: Optimizing Graph Mining in Large Parallel Systems
| bio
| --
|
| March 2
| Amr El Abbadi, UC Santa Barbara
| Scalable and Elastic Data Management in the Cloud
| bio
| --
|
| March 9
| Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
| TBA
| --
| --
|
| March 16
| Amol Deshpande, Univ. of Maryland
| TBA
| --
| --
|