The annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. Follow the live keynote streaming on http://sigmod2017.org/live/

Dr. Rakesh Agrawal is visiting DIAS starting this month, and will stay until the end of the year. Dr. Agrawal will  engage into collaborations with DIAS as well as other labs in IC and he will also give several lectures.

On Monday 24th of October 2016 Anastasia gave one of the keynotes during the 2016 IEEE 12th International Conference on eScience. Title of the talk: Fast, just-in-time queries on heterogeneous scientific data (more details here)

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The committee for the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, selected Pinar's dissertation for an honorable mention. Congratulations Pinar!!!

Pinar Tozun is a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center since January 2015. In November 2014, she received her PhD degree from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne working under the supervision of Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki in Data-Intensive Applications and Systems Laboratory. Her research focuses on scalability and efficiency of data management systems on modern hardware. Pinar was an intern at Oracle Labs (Redwood Shores, CA) during summer 2012. She received her BSc degree in Computer Engineering department of Koc University in 2009.

The tutorial slides on "how to stop underutilization and love multicores" are now available on-line on http://bit.ly/1rYUNoW. Any feedback is more than welcome!!

Anastasia participated as a panelist at ITU's Girls in ICT Day, on April 15, 2014. You can watch her presentation here.

RETHINK Big project press release (march 14, 2014)