Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory

Student member of the group, Shenoda Guirguis, successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation yesterday, Tuesday, August 23rd 2011. The topic of his dissertation was "Scalable Processing of Multiple Aggregate Continuous Queries". More details can be found in the event's post here.

Friday, January 14th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
5317 Sennott Square

Panos Ipeirotis
New York University

In recognition of his contributions to the fields of computing and information technology, University of Pittsburgh professor of computer science Panos K. Chrysanthis was selected as a 2010 Distinguished Scientist of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. Chrysanthis is the first Pitt Scientist to receive this distinction.

The National Science Foundation has recently awarded a grant to a group of six faculty at Pitt to support the AstroShelf project. They are Professors Jeffrey Newman and Michael Wood–Vasey from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Professor G. Elisabeta Marai from the Interdisciplinary Visualization Research Lab and Professors Labrinidis and Chrysanthis from the ADMT Lab. The goals of the project include creating a scalable annotation framework for astronomical data and objects, creating a continuous workflow system that facilitates automated reasoning and creating a framework for interacting with astronomical datasets. Details can be found on our website, and in the NSF award page.

Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mokbel
Friday, April 30th, 2010 at 10:30 am (Refreshments at 10am)
Room 5317, Sennott Square Building, University of Pittsburgh

On Monday, April 19, 2010 Yanlei Diao, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst visited our group and gave a talk.

Addressing New Challenges in Data Stream Processing

Yanlei Diao, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Monday, April 19th, 2010 at 4:30 pm (refreshments at 4:15pm)
Sennott Square - Seminar Room 5317

On April 15th Professors Chrysanthis and Pruhs represented a group of researchers in our department who study sustainable computing in the 16th Annual Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition on Capitol Hill. The Exhibition is a showcase for prominent research supported by the National Science Foundation; it is attended regularly by Members of the U.S. Congress and their staff and White House leaders.

The Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship provides PhD. students approaching graduation with a year of support -- the winners of this award have shown remarkable ability and promise. We are fortunate to have two students in our department earn the 2010-2011 award: Ahmed Abousamra and our own Shenoda Guirguis. Congratulations to you both!

As part of our Department's 10th annual Computer Science Day, our group is honored to have received the following awards:

Shenoda Guirguis -- Research Competition Winner:

"Weaved Sharing of Aggregate Continuous Queries"

In this work, we propose Weave Share, a heuristic multiple Aggregate Continuous Queries optimization algorithm, and its online version. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed heuristic via extensive performance analysis which show orders of magnitude improvement over the state-of-the-art.

Lory Al-Moakar and PJ Dillon -- Digital Media Competition Winner

"Thanks Dr. Melhem!"

Our Department gave a big thank-you to our outgoing chair, Professor Rami Melhem.