New Challenges in Data Management

Speaker:	Professor Amr EL ABBADI
		Department of Computer Science
		University of California at Santa Barbara

Title:		"New Challenges in Data Management"

Date:		Thursday, 8 May 2008

Time:		2:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:		Room 3416 (via lifts 17/18)
		HKUST

Abstract:

Data management has evolved significantly over the last decade. A
traditional database managed well defined, structured data, answered
precise queries, and stored the data in trustworthy settings. Recent
applications have expanded the scope of the data managed to include
unstructured and semi-structured data as well as non-persistent data such
as data streams. The types of queries expected are diverse, imprecise and
including on-line analytical processing and ranking queries. Even the data
is often stored in non-trusted third parties and yet these third parties
are expected to manage the data and answer queries. Many of these
innovative and challenging settings form the basis of the research
projects we are exploring at UCSB. In this talk I will discuss recent
results related to the execution of privacy preserving operations,
detecting fraud in advertisement click streams, and using hardware to
overcome performance limitations of software solutions.


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Biography:

Amr El Abbadi received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell
University. In August 1987 he joined the Department of Computer Science at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is currently a
Professor and Chair of the department. He has been a visiting
professor/scientist at the University of Campinas in Brazil, IBM Almaden
Research Center, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science in Stockholm,
Sweden and in IRISA at the University of Rennes in France. He has served
as area editor for Information Systems: An International Journal, an
editor of Information Processing Letters (IPL) and Associate editor of the
Bulleten of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering. He was Vice Chair
of the 1999 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems,
Vice Chair for the International Conference on Data Engineering 2002,
group leader for the International Conference on Management of Data
(SIGMOD) 2005, and the Americas Program Chair for the 2000 International
Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). Currently, he is a board
member of the VLDB Endowment. Prof. EL ABBADI's main research interests
and accomplishments have been in understanding and developing basic
mechanisms for supporting distributed information management systems,
including databases, digital libraries, peer-to-peer systems, and spatial
databases.