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[News] Di Bao successfully defended his MS thesis, Congratulations!

Di Bao successfully defended his MS thesis at November 25, 2013 . The topic of her MS thesis is "SNET - Computer-Assisted Supernovae Tracking". Congratulations to Di! More details can be found in the event's post here.

[NEWS] New course offered in Spring 2014 term: CS 0155 - Data Witchcraft

A new course will be offered in the Spring 2014 term, geared as a second CS course for non-CS majors who want to learn basic data management and data science skills. The course, CS 0155 - Data Witchcraft will be taught by Prof. Alexandros Labrinidis.

[News] Alexandros Labrinidis participated in SSDBM 2013 panel on data science education

Professor Alexandros Labrinidis participated in the panel on "Education and career paths for data scientists" of the 25th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, held on July 31, 2013.

[News] Qinglan Li successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Congratulations!

Qinglan Li successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at June 19, 2013 . The topic of her PhD dissertation is "A user-driven annotation framework for scientific data". Congratulations to Qinglan! More details can be found in the event's post here.

[News] Lory AI Moakar successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Congratulations!

Lory AI Moakar successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at May 28, 2013. The topic of her PhD dissertation is "Class-based Continuous Query Scheduling in Data Stream Management Systems". Congratulations to Lory! More details can be found in the event's post here.

[News] Panos K. Chrysanthis talked at U. of Maryland On May 14, 2013

Professor Chrysanthis in his talk in the Computer Science Department of the University of Maryland briefly discussed the current ADMT projects related to Big Data and presented DILoS, A Dynamic Integrated Load Manager and Scheduler for Continuous Queries, which focuses on three of the Eight Big Data's Vs, that is, volume, velocity and variability.

https://talks.cs.umd.edu/talks/342

[News] Our group is featured in today's University Times

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.

[News][13th Annual CS Day] Many congratulations to Thao, Roxana, and Nick!

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.

[News] Panayiotis Neophytou successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, Congratulations!

Panayiotis (Panickos) Neophytou successfully defended his PhD dissertation at December 17th, 2012. The topic of his PhD dissertation is "Continuous Workflows: From Model to Enactment System". Congratulations to Panickos! More details can be found in the event's post here.

[News] Congratulations to Thao Pham for successfully defending her Ph.D. proposal!

Thao Nguyen Pham successfully passed her proposal defense at December 10, 2012. The title of her PhD proposal is "Exploiting the Synergy between Scheduling and Load Shedding to Facilitate Differentiated Levels of Service for Continuous Queries". More details can be found in the event's post here.