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ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference: Vancouver, 2008
Welcome

For decades, the joint ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference has established itself as the top data management conference in the world for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to report and share cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. In 2008, SIGMOD/PODS was held in Vancouver, in Canada's beautiful British Columbia, from June 9 to 12, 2008.

The highlights of the SIGMOD/PODS program are as follows:

SIGMOD (June 10-12):

• 3 Keynote Presentations:
  • Ben Shneiderman [University of Maryland]
    Extreme Visualization: Squeezing a Billion Records into a Million Pixels
  • Sridhar Ramaswamy [Google]
    Extreme Data Mining
  • William O'Connell [IBM]
    Extreme Streaming: Business Optimization Driving Algorithmic Challenges
• 5 Tutorials:
  • Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities (3 hours)
    Speaker(s): Susan Davidson and Juliana Freire
  • Object/Relational Mapping 2008: Hibernate and the Entity Data Model (EDM) (1.5 hours)
    Speaker(s): Betty O'Neil
  • Query Answering Technique on Uncertain and Probabilistic Data (1.5 hours)
    Speaker(s): Jian Pei, Ming Hua, Yufei Tao, Xuemin Lin
  • Information Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks (1.5 hours)
    Speaker(s): Eduardo Nakamura and Antonio Loureiro
  • Introduction to Recommender Systems (3 hours)
    Speaker(s): Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota
• 78 Technical Paper Presentations
• 15 Industrial Paper Presentations
• 30 Demonstrations
• 6 Post-conference workshops

PODS (June 9-11):

• Keynote Speaker: Peter Buneman [University of Edinburgh]
  Topic: Curated Databases
• Invited Tutorial 1: Effective Characterizations of Tree Logics
  Speaker: Mikolaj Bojanczyk [Warsaw University]
• Invited Tutorial 2: Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality
  Speaker: Wenfei Fan [University of Edinburgh]
• 28 Technical Paper Presentations

We hope you have enjoyed SIGMOD/PODS 2008 in Vancouver!

Laks V.S. Lakshmanan & Raymond Ng SIGMOD 2008 General co-chairs	Phokion G. Kolaitis PODS 2008 General Chair
Dennis Shasha SIGMOD 2008 PC Chair	Maurizio Lenzerini PODS 2008 PC Chair