Place and time: room 0.2.11, from 12 to 13.

• 12.10.2012 12:00 Dalia 20121012
• 26.10.2012 12:00 Who?

• Dremel:

Sergey Melnik, Andrey Gubarev, Jing Jing Long, Geoffrey Romer, Shiva Shivakumar, Matt Tolton, Theo Vassilakis: Dremel: interactive analysis of web-scale datasets. Commun. ACM 54(6): 114-123 (2011) * MapReduce - 2 paper discussion: Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, David J. DeWitt, Samuel Madden, Erik Paulson, Andrew Pavlo, Alexander Rasin: MapReduce and parallel DBMSs: friends or foes? Commun. ACM 53(1): 64-71 (2010)

And the “response” Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat: MapReduce: a flexible data processing tool. Commun. ACM 53(1): 72-77 (2010)

Every meeting should start with short news from the department (group news):

• new projects
• new group members
• celebrations or other things.

The following three types of presentations should take ~50 minutes (there should be only one of these during the session):

• paper presentation by a Ph.D. student (More information)
• trial presentation (before going to present a paper at a conference, do a presentation for the group)
• trial 11 month presentation (for Ph.D. students)

Another option for presentations (should be short, can be presented few during one session):

• 4 slide “wild” ideas
• project proposals
• work in progress
• tutorials
• guests

Everyone is welcome to attend the sessions. Don't forget to bring your food.

Full list of the upcoming/past events events

External talks (visitors, giving talks): dates and information

Study Group on Spatiotemporal Databases: dates and information

Semesters: 2011 Fall semester || 2012 Spring semester || 2012 Fall semester