Four CMU-DB Talks @ SIGMOD 2017
May 13, 2017
Members of the Carnegie Mellon Database Group are presenting four times at SIGMOD 2017 held in Chicago, IL: Tutorial Joy Arulraj & Andy Pavlo — How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System Keynote Andy Pavlo — What Are We Doing With Our Lives? Nobody Cares About Our Research on Transactions Research Talk Dana Van Aken — Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning Research Talk Andy Pavlo — Online Deduplication for Databases Videos of these talks Read More
Alumnus win Lagrange Prize
Mar 19, 2016
Our alumnus, Jure Leskovec (PhD SCS/MLD, now at Stanford), won the prestigious Lagrange Prize. Established in 2008 by the CRT Foundation and coordinated by the ISI Foundation, the Lagrange Prize is part of the Lagrange Project, one of the most innovative European initiatives dedicated entirely to studying complex systems and data science, where a culture of innovation is encouraged through PHD scholarships and research grants. The Prize is the symbolic event of the Lagrange Project: a prestigious international acknowledgement – Read More
Danai in the news!
May 24, 2014
Danai and the Microsoft researchers Paul Bennett and Eric Horvitz studied information-seeking behavior and access to alternative versus reinforcing viewpoints for strongly polarizing topics. In particular, they analyzed the search and browsing behavior on the gun control debate following a shocking news event, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. The paper is at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.1486v1.pdf The MIT Tech Review article is at: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/527311/sandy-hook-the-gun-control-debate-and-the-insidious-influence-of-the-filter-bubble/ Other press coverage includes: http://www.technology.org/2014/05/13/ideological-internet-bubbles-stay-strong-study-shows/# Read More
Polo has an invited article in ACM Crossroads!
May 22, 2011
Polo speaks out on graph mining and fraud detection. Polo Chau has an invited article in ACM Crossroads, explaining how his work can help spot fraudsters Congratulations Polo! Read More