UW / MSR Summer Research Institute 2005
July 31 – August 4, 2005
Sunday, July 31st
6:00 pm – 6:30 pmReception – Falls Terrace Room
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Dinner – Falls Terrace Room
7:30 pm – 8:00 pm Opening Remarks/Discussions (Surajit Chaudhuri and Dan Suciu)
Monday, August 1st
7:30 am – 8:30 amBreakfast – North Ball Room
8:30 am – 9:00 amIntroductions – South Ball Room
9:00 am – 10:30 amApplications I – South Ball Room
Sam Madden:Sensor Data
Mike Franklin:HiFi project
10:30 am – 11:00 amBreak – North Ball Room
11:00 am – 12:30 pmApplications II – North Ball Room
Alon Halevy:Personal Information Management
Anhai Doan:Schema Matching
12:30 pm – 2:00 pmLunch – Potlach Room
2:00 pm – 3:30 pmApplications III – South Ball Room
Peter Buneman:Curated Data
Susan Davidson:Biological/Scientific Data
3:30 pm – 4:00 pmBreak – North Ball Room
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmFoundations – South Ball Room
Jennifer Widom:Representation Formalisms for Uncertain Data
Dan SuciuQuery Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases
6:00 pm – 7:30 pmDinner – Falls Terrace Room
7:30 pm – 9:00 pmJohn Delaney, University of Washington – North Ball Room
Tuesday, August 2nd
7:30 am – 8:30 amBreakfast – North Ball Room
8:30 am – 9:00 amBreakout Groups 1: Tying Applications and Foundations Organization – South Ball Room
9:00 am - 10:30 amBreakout Groups 1 – Ball Room (North & South); Atrium Room
10:30 am – 11:00 amBreak – North Ball Room
11:00 am – 12:30 pmSunita Saraswagi: Information Extraction – South Ball Room
12:30 pm – 1:30 pmLunch – Potlach Room
1:30 pm – 2:00 pmLoad onto transportation – Front of Lodge
2:00 pm – 5:00 pmHiking
6:00 pm – 7:30 pmDinner – Potlach Room
7:30 pm – 9:00 pmBreakout groups 1 – Atrium Room; Ball Room (North & South)
Wednesday, August 3rd
7:30 am – 9:00 amBreakfast – North Ball Room
9:00 am - 10:30 amBreakout Groups 1 Report – South Ball Room
10:30 am – 11:00 amBreak – North Ball Room
11:00 am – 12:00 pmSusan Dumais: Text similarity and IR techniques – South Ball Room
12:00 pm – 12:30 pmBreakout Groups II: Ranking, Imprecision, and Foundation – South Ball Room
12:30 pm – 1.30 pmLunch – Potlach Room
1:30 pm – 2.30 pmOren Etzioni: Automatically Creating Databases from Text – South Ball Room
2:30 pm – 3:00 pmBreak – North Ball Room
3:00 pm – 5:30 pmQuery Processing and Ranking – South Ball Room
Venkatesh Ganti: Fuzzy duplicate elimination
Surajit Chaudhuri: Preliminary work on Ranking Query Results
Jay Shanmugasundaram: Text search in XML
5:30 pm – 6:30 pmBreakout Groups II – Ball Room (North & South); Atrium Room
6:30 pm – 7:30 pmDinner – Potlach Room
7:30 pm – 9:00 pmGong Show (Surajit) – South Ball Room
Thursday, August 4th
7:30 am – 8:30 amBreakfast – North Ball Room
8:30 am – 9:30 amNebojsa Jojic: Representing uncertainty of data using hierarchical statistical models – South Ball Room
9:30 am – 10:00 amBreak – North Ball Room
10:00 am – 11:30 pmBreakout groups 2 – Ball Room (North & South); Potlach Room
11:30 am – 12:30 pmBreakout groups 2: Report – South Ball Room
12:30 pm – 1:30 pmLunch, Concluding Remarks/Discussions – Potlach Room