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Principles of Computing and Knowledge:
Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Workshop

on the occasion of his 50th Birthday

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Sunday, 8 June 2003, San Diego, CA
Affiliated with ACM FCRC 2003,
in-cooperation with ACM SIGMOD

   

    ORGANIZERS

    PROGRAM

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    SUBMISSIONS &
   
PROCEEDINGS

    IMPORTANT
   
DATES

    LATEST NEWS

    PCK MEMORIAL
   
HOMEPAGE

 

This one-day meeting, held in the year of Paris Kanellakis' 50th birthday, commemorates Paris's legacy to computer science. It is a retrospective of his work and a celebration of his impact on computer science, through his research and through its influence on research directions taken by the computer science community. The workshop includes talks by invited speakers as well as by Paris's past students. The day will be capped by a banquet at which colleagues and friends will offer their personal recollections of Paris.

Sponsored by:

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ACM SIGACT

Supported by:

UConn Booth Engineering Center
for Advanced Technology

The Kanellakis Foundation

CS Department, Brown University


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   Organizers

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   Program: June 8, 2003

The workshop program includes invited talks by Christos Papadimitriou, Moshe Vardi, and Gene Myers (winner of the 2001 ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award). The rest of the program consists of presentations by Paris's former students. The day will be capped by a banquet where colleagues and friends will offer their personal recollections of Paris.

08:30-08:40 Introduction Workshop Organizers
08:40-09:40 Invited 
Lecture 1
Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
The New Problems
09:40-10:10 Talk 1 Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
A Retrospective on Constraint Databases
10:10-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Invited 
Lecture 2
Moshe Vardi, Rice University
A Call to Regularity
11:30-12:00 Talk 2 Dina Goldin, University of Connecticut
Extending The Constraint Database Framework
12:00-12:30 Talk 3 Todd Millstein, University of Washington
Static Reasoning about Programs and Queries
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Talk 4 Takis Metaxas, Wellesley College
Parallel Digital Halftoning by Error-Diffusion
2:30-3:00 Talk 5 Scott Smolka, SUNY Stony Brook
On the Computational Complexity of Bisumulation, Redux
3:00-3:30 Talk 6 Alex Shvartsman, University of Connecticut
Distributed Cooperation and Adversity: Complexity Trade-Offs
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Invited 
Lecture 3
Gene Myers, UC Berkeley 
(winner of the 2001 ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award)
Advances in DNA Sequencing
5:00 Closing
5:45-7:00 FCRC event Turing Lecture
7:30 - 9:30 Banquet

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   Submissions / Proceedings

Submissions are now closed. The proceedings of the workshop will be published by the ACM Press via three venues:


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   Registration

The PCK50 workshop is affiliated with the ACM 2003 Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC 2003); registration is through the FCRC site (http://www.regmaster.com/fcrc2003.html). Registration fees are $145 for ACM members, $165 for non-members, which INCLUDES the banquet on June 8. The student registration is $50 and does not include the banquet. Electronic registration includes the OPTION of individual/extra banquet tickets at $45.


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   Important Dates

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   Latest News

(5/15/03) Registration info is now up; also, here is the ASCII call for participation.
(4/28/03)
Submissions of final paper versions are now closed; the tentative program is posted.
(4/15/03) Posted instructions for the camera-ready submission of final versions of papers.
(12/12/02) This web page now contains the tentative program and the dates.
(6/24/02) This web page is now official, linked to the FCRC web site!


Web page maintained by Dina Q Goldin <dqg@cse.uconn.edu>; last modified on 4/29/03.