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Speaker:        Dr. Michael Franklin
                Department of Computer Science
                University of California, Berkeley

Title:          "Message Brokers, Grids, Sensor Networks and
                 Other Strange Places to Run Database Queries"

Date:           Monday, 24 February 2003

Time:           4:00pm - 5:00pm


Venue:          Lecture Theater F
                (Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
                HKUST

ABSTRACT:

The deployment of pervasive communications infrastructure ranging from
short-range wireless ad hoc sensor networks to globe-spanning intra and
internets has enabled new applications that process, analyze, and in some
cases react to disparate data in a near real-time manner. Examples
include:  business application integration, profile-based data
dissemination, network monitoring, grid-based scientific collaboration,
and query processing over streaming data sources such as sensors and
mobile devices.  In the database group at Berkeley, we have been
investigating how to apply insights and technology from database query
processing in such non-traditional data processing environments.  Doing so
enables the leveraging of decades of progress in scalable, declarative
data management, while also providing a wealth of new research problems.
In this talk I will survey some of our ongoing efforts in these areas.


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Biography:

Michael Franklin is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the
University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the
architecture and performance of distributed databases and information
systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison
in 1993. He served as Program Chair for the 2002 ACM SIGMOD Conference and
is currently an Editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vice Chair
of the SIGMOD Advisory Board, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the
VLDB Endowment.  He is also a technology advisor to the Mayfield Fund and
sits on the technology advisory boards of several companies.


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