Call for Participation: Database Day

[Ted Roche]

*New England Database Day 2008*

*Call for Participation*

   Sponsored by Boston/Central New England Chapter of IEEE Computer 
Society and GBC/ACM, Vertica, Sun Microsystems, NEDS, and NETEZZA

*Date*:  Monday, February 4th, 2008

*Location*:  M.I.T. The Stata Center, Room 32-123

*Time*:  9:00AM to 4:00PM, followed by complementary  reception and 
dinner, sponsored by Vertica Systems

*Cost:* Free

*URL*:  _http://db.csail.mit.edu/nedbday08/_

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*Purpose*:

To assemble the DBMS research and development community from New
England-area companies and colleges to network, share problems,
solutions and insight. This will give participants new ideas they can
apply to their business,  technology research or product development.

·         Invited talk by Prof. David Dewitt (University of Wisconsin)
·         Short (20-30 minute) talks by area academic researchers and 
industry practitioners
·         Posters and  demos of interesting systems


Please register at _http://db.csail.mit.edu/nedbday08/htdocs/_.

If you would like to give a talk or present a poster/demo please upload 
a short 1/2 page talk description or poster demo/abstract  by January 
10^th to _http://db.csail.mit.edu/nedbday08/htdocs/_.__

*Organizing Committee:*

General Chairman of the event is Mike Stonebraker (MIT). Program 
Committee Chair is Samuel Madden (MIT).  Members of the program 
committee are Stan Zdonik (Brown), Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis), and Elke 
Rundensteiner (WPI).