SIGMOD 2011 Conference: top presence for IC researchers

© 2011 EPFL

© 2011 EPFL

Members of the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems Laboratory (DIAS) and Data Analysis Theory and Applications Laboratory (DATA) laboratories will have a total of eight entries in the proceedings (1 keynote, 4 research and 3 demonstration papers) and a best-paper award at this year's SIGMOD, the premier annual research conference in data management. SIGMOD will take place in Athens, Greece on June 12-16, 2011.

At the conference, Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki (director of the DIAS lab) will deliver a keynote speech titled "Managing Scientific Data", while Prof. Christoph Koch (director of the DATA lab) will accept the SIGMOD 2011 Best Paper Award for his paper "Entangled queries: enabling declarative data-driven coordination", jointly authored with his Cornell colleagues Lucja Kot, Nitin Gupta, Sudip Roy, Gabriel Bender and Johannes Gehrke.

Overall, an impressive EPFL IC presence at the creme-de-la-creme of data management research forums!