日本データベース学会の皆様 北海道大学の小山です。6月22日〜23日に北京で開催される国際会議 XLDB Asia 2012の参加案内をお送りさせて頂きます。 Earlybird registrationの締切が5月25日となっております。 Lightning talk proposalもまだ受け付けております。 参加をご検討頂けましたら幸いです。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to XLDB Asia 2012 The Extremely Large Databases (XLDB) series of conferences/workshops (xldb.org) have been held successfully in recent years. The first XLDB satellite conference at Asia (XLDB Asia) will be held at Beijing, China on June 22-23, 2012. Different from traditional technique conferences, XLDB conference is based on invited premium talks by pioneers and leaders in the field. This year we have brought together world class speakers, who are owners of real extremely large data from industries and scientific research, practitioners who are handling the real data, or DBMS researchers who are researching new solutions. Speakers include Dr. Alexander Szalay, a pioneer in astronomic data management, who builds one of the largest scientific databases in the world together with Jim Gray from Microsoft; Dr. Joel Saltz, a pioneer in biomedical informatics, founder of the virtual microscopy technology, who works extensively on high performance data analysis and queries of biomedical data; Dr Kian-Tat Lim from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, who works on designing and building the petabyte-scale data management systems for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, one of the coming largest scientific databases in the next decade; Dr. Milind Bhandarka, the Chief Architect of Greenplum Labs in EMC, who will present the proposed Big Data Benchmarking framework; Dr. Laura Hass, an IBM Fellow, who invented many database products and technologies at IBM and now directs IBM massive data product research; Dr. Hairong Kuang, who leads the development of Hadoop Distributed File System at Facebook, and a long time contributor and committer to the Apache Hadoop project; Dr. Martin Kersten, one of the founders of MonetDB, and a pioneer of column store and array database. Other example industry speakers include Google, eBay, TaoBao, Rakuten; Example academic research speakers include Dr. Xiaodong Zhang from Ohio State University, Dr. Haixun Wang from Microsoft Research Asia, and others. Besides invited talks, the conference also accepted a set of high quality lightning talks and poster presentations about XLDB related research and systems. Please refer to this document for more information (http://www.xldb-asia.org/callforparticipation-en.pdf). XLDB Asia Websites: http://idke.ruc.edu.cn/xldb/www.xldb-asia.org/ http://www.xldb-asia.org Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 25, 2012