Three 3-Hour Seminars

• Implementation and Research Issues in Query Processing for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Wei Hong (Intel) and Sam Madden (UC Berkeley)

• 'My Personal Web': A Tutorial on Personalization and Privacy for Web and Converged Services
  Irini Fundulaki, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar, Daniel Lieuwen and Arnaud Sahuguet (Bell Labs)

• XML Query Processing
  Daniela Florescu (BEA Systems) and Donald Kossman (University of Heidelberg)

Four 1.5 Hour Seminars

• Data Mining for Intrusion Detection: Techniques, Applications and Systems
  Jian Pei, Shambhu Upadhyaya, Faisal Farooq and Vebugopal Govindaraju (SUNY Buffalo)

• Data Management in Location-Dependent Information Services
  Baihua Zheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University) and Wang-Chien Lee (Penn State)

• Meta Data Management
  Phil Bernstein (Microsoft Research) and Sergey Melnik (University of Leipzig)

• Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases
  Daniel A. Keim and Benjamin Bustos (University of Konstanz)

Three panels

• Database Kernel Research: What, if anything, is left to do?
  Chair: Dave Lomet (Microsoft Research)
  Panelists: Michael Brodie (Verizon Corporation), David DeWitt (University of Wisconsin), H.V.Jagadish (University of Michigan), and Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute) 

• Database Research in the Current Millennium (all panelists have Doctorates awarded since 1/1/2000)
  Chair: Daniela Florescu (BEA Systems)
  Panelists: Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France), Anastassia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University), Jai Shanmugasundaram (Cornell University), Zack Ives (University of Pennsylvania) 

• Querying the Past, the Present, and the Future
  Chair: Dieter Gawlick (Oracle Corporation)
  Panelists: Adam Bosworth (BEA), Michael J. Franklin (University of California, Berkeley), Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)