[October 2008] Michael Gertz left the University of California at Davis and is now leading the database systems group at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

[December 2007] Omar Alonso is organizing the Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval in the context of the ECIR 2008 conference.

[November 07] The book "Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends" edited by Michael Gertz and Sushil Jajodia has been published. See Springer's Web site or  at amazon.com.

[September 07] Professor Ian Davidson has joined the Department of Computer Science as new faculty members in the areas of data mining and machine learning.

[June 07] Check out our VLDB 2007 paper  "Modeling and Querying Vague Spatial Objects using Shapelets" by Daniel Zinn, Jim Bosch, and Michael Gertz. Presentation slides can be found here.

[Sep 06] The Database and Information Systems (DBIS) group is involved in two NSF awards for Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories (CEOP):

CEOP/COMET: Profs. Gertz (PI) and Ludäscher from the CS department and an interdisciplinary team of researchers from UC Davis, including Profs. Schladow (Tahoe Environmental Research Center), Ustin (UC Davis Center of Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment), and Williams (Bodega Marine Laboratory), have received a three year $2,100,000 grant for their proposal COMET: COast-to-Mountain Environmental Transect. (more)

CEOP/KEPLER: A team of investigators from UC Santa Barbara (Matt Jones, Mark Schildhauer), UC Davis (Prof. Ludäscher), UC San Diego (Ilkay Altintas, Chaitan Baru), UC Los Angeles (Prof. Deborah Estrin), and OPeNDAP Inc. (Peter Cornillon)  have been awarded a four year $2,700,000 grant for the Management and Analysis of Environmental Observatory Data using the Kepler Scientific Workflow System. (more)

News Archive

• Scientific Workflows (Kepler)
• Scientific Data Integration
• Geospatial and spatio-temporal data
• Data mining and machine learning
• Mining geospatial data

• ECS 10 Basic Concepts of Computing (Michael Gertz) Course Web site
• ECS 165B Database Systems (Bertram Ludäscher)
• ECS 266 Spatial Databases (Michael Gertz) Course Web Site

• Oracle/SQL Tutorial
• Databases and Information Systems Lab: Projects and Research Overview (PDF), November 2006
• Profs Gertz' and  Ludäscher's EDBT 06 tutorial on Scientific Data and Workflow management.

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