ADMT Lab News

[Talk] Prof. Joe Hellerstein of UC Berkeley to speak at CMU

alexc — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:38:12 -0500

Start: 11/18/2008 - 18:33

The Pitt/CMU Joint Database Seminar series continues on Monday, November 24 at CMU with a talk given by UC Berkeley's Professor Joe Hellerstein. Professor Hellerstein will give his talk, "Declarative, Data-Centric Approaches to Parallelism", at 4:30pm on CMU's campus, Newell Simon Hall 3305.

[Talk] Prof. David Maier, from Portland State U., to give talk on Next-Generation Data Stream Services in our Department

alexc — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:51:20 -0500

Start: 11/21/2008 - 10:30

End: 11/21/2008 - 12:30

Our group welcomes Professor David Maier of Portland State University as one of our Department's five distinguished lecturers this semester. He will visit us on Friday, November 21st to present his talk, Next-Generation Data Stream Services. The talk is preceded by refreshments at 10am and begins at 10:30 am in Sennott Square 5317, and is hosted by our own Professor Panos Chrysanthis.

[Talk] Prof. Pedro José Marrón of University of Bonn to present Cooperating Objects

panickos — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:55:21 -0500

Start: 11/10/2008 - 13:00

End: 11/10/2008 - 14:00

Our group is pleased to welcome Professor Pedro José Marrón of the University of Bonn to our Department as part of our Joint Database Seminar series with CMU, as well as part of our Department's Colloquim series. This talk is hosted by Professor Panos Chrysanthis and begins at 1pm in Sennott Square 5317. Refreshments will be served at 12:30pm.

[Talk] Prof. Sam Madden of MIT to present Data management in the CarTel mobile sensor network

alexc — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:46:43 -0400

Start: 10/20/2008 - 16:30

End: 10/20/2008 - 17:30

Our group is excited to welcome Professor Sam Madden of MIT for our first Pitt/CMU Joint Database Seminar of the semester! Professor Madden will be presenting Data management in the CarTel mobile sensor network at 4:30pm on Monday, October 20th in Sennott Square 5317. Meet the speaker will be at 4pm.

Prof. Alexandros Labrinidis gets NSF CAREER award

panickos — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:13:39 -0400

Prof. Alexandros Labrinidis gets NSF CAREER award (on User-Centric Data Management).

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

Congratulations Alex!

Dr. Mohamed Sharaf has received a 2-year fellowship

panickos — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:52:48 -0400

Our alumnus, Dr. Mohamed Sharaf has received a 2-year fellowship from the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Canada. He has received one of the 3 fellowships given in engineering!

This year, this fellowship was very competitive - the acceptance rate was 14% (=15 fellowships given to more then 100 applied).
Congratulations Mohamed!

Congratulations to Alex Connor for winning the best undergraduate poster award at SIGMOD 2008

labrinid — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:06:31 -0400

Alex Connor, a staff member of the ADMT Lab, won the best poster award at the ACM SIGMOD 2008 Undergraduate Poster Competition. His poster entry was entitled Nearest Neighbor Queries over Graph Data Congratulations Alex!

Prof. Alexandros Labrinidis promoted to Associate Professor

panickos — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:32:28 -0400

Alex Labrinidis, co-director of the ADMT Lab, has been promoted to Associate Professor and has been given tenure to the Department of Computer Science at UPitt.

Congratulations Alex!! We all wish you more recognitions and successes in the years ahead.

Congratulations to Alex Connor for being one of the five winners of the SIGMOD 2008 undergraduate poster competition

labrinid — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:36:34 -0400

Alex Connor, an undergraduate student in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the ADMT Lab, is one of the five winners of the ACM SIGMOD 2008 Undergraduate Poster Competition, and the only one from North America. His poster entry was entitled Fast Nearest Neighbor Queries in Real-Time Weighted Graphs. Congratulations Alex!

Dr. Panos Chrysanthis gives keynote talk at International Workshop on Data and Services Management in Mobile Environments

labrinid — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:53:21 -0400

Dr. Panos Chrysanthis gave the keynote talk at 1st International Workshop on Data and Services Management in Mobile Environments (DSM2E), that was held on April 7, 2008, in Cancun, Mexico. The DSM2E workshop was held together with the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'08).