The University Times published today an interview of Profs. Chrysanthis and Labrinidis, where they talk about the recently launched Pittsburgh DataWorks initiative, our group's Big Data projects, and about the Big Data phenomenon in general.

In this year's CS Day Event, Thao Pham won first price at the Poster Competition with her poster "Avoiding class warefare: Managing continuous queries in a multi-tenant environment with differentiated classes of service". Congratulations!

Also, congratulations to Roxana Gheorghiu and to Nicholas Farnan for being finalists in this year's Research Competition.

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Professors Chrysanthis and Labrinidis are members of the advisory committee that has founded the Pittsburgh DataWorks initiative, whose aim is to bring together organizations and people working on "big data" throughout southwestern PA, with the ultimate goal of supporting ongoing initiatives and attracting big data talent and investments to the US’s “most livable city”.

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Roxana Gheorghiu successfully defended her PhD proposal on February 4th, 2013. The topic of her PhD dissertation will be "Unifying qualitative and quantitative database preferences to enhance query personalization". Congratulations to Roxana! More details can be found in the event's post.

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