[News] Congratulations to Cory for passing his comprehensive exam

Posted December 17th, 2014 by labrinid
Congratulations to Cory Thoma for passing his comprehensive examination today, putting him one step closer to getting his PhD!

[News] Professor Panos K. Chrysanthis participated in the panel on "BigData - Challenges and Opportunities"

Posted October 31st, 2014 by cory
Professor Panos K. Chrysanthis participated in the panel on "BigData - Challenges and Opportunities" of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2014), held on October 24, 2014.

[Paper] CollaborateCom'14 and BigGraphs 2014

Posted October 23rd, 2014 by cory
Two new papers published in the IEEE CollaborateCom 2014 conference and in the workshop on BigGraphs 2014 (held together with the 2014 IEEE Big Data Conference).

[NEWS] Professors Alexandros Labrinidis and Panos K. Chrysanthis are co-investigators in the newly funded Center for Causal Modeling and Discovery of Biomedical Knowledge from Big Data (CCMD).

Posted October 22nd, 2014 by cory
Professors Alexandros Labrinidis and Panos K. Chrysanthis are co-investigators in the newly funded Center for Causal Modeling and Discovery of Biomedical Knowledge from Big Data (CCMD), which is one of the 12 new Centers of Excellence funded through NIH's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program.  

[DB Talk][DB Seminar] CMU/Pitt Joint DB Monthly Meetup

Posted October 14th, 2014 by cory
Date: Wednesday, October 22nd @ 4:30 pm
Location: Room 5317, Sennott Square Building, University of Pittsburgh Campus
Speaker: Spyros Blanas, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
Title: Scalable in situ query processing for exploratory data analysis

[Paper]Professor Alexandros Labrinidis is the co-author of a new review article entitled "Big Data and Its Technical Challenges"

Posted July 11th, 2014 by cory
Big Data and Its Technical Challenges, was published in the July 2014 issue of the Communications of the ACM. There is also a companion web site at db.cs.pitt.edu/bigdata/resources

[News] Roxana Gheorghiu has successfully defended her PhD. thesis entitled Unifying Qualitative and Quantitative Database Preferences to Enhance Query Personalization

Posted June 10th, 2014 by cory
On Friday, May 30, Roxana Gheorghiu successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations Roxana! More information can be found here.

[DB Talk][DB Seminar] CMU/Pitt Joint DB Monthly Meetup

Posted April 11th, 2014 by wen
Date: Wednesday, April 16th @ 4:30 pm
Location: Board Room, Room 6329, 6th floor Sennott Square Building, Pitt Campus
Speaker: Roger MacNicol, PhD Oracle
Title: Columnar Processing in Oracle: pivots and fractured mirrors

[DB Talk] Pitt DB Talk

Posted April 8th, 2014 by wen
Date: Wednesday, April 9th @ 4:30 pm
Location: Eli Lilly room, Sennott Square
Speakers: ADMT Lab members that attended ICDE 2014
Title: Impressions of ICDE 2014
Abstract: The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss our impressions of ICDE 2014.

[DB Talk][DB Seminar] CMU/Pitt Joint DB Monthly Meetup

Posted March 18th, 2014 by wen
Pitt/CMU Joint DB Monthly Meetup
Date: Wednesday, March 19th @ 4:30 pm
Location: Room GHC6121 CMU Campus
1st Speaker: Nicholas L Farnan, PhD Pitt CS
2nd Speaker: Danai Koutra, PhD CMU CS