Workshop Program
Note:
All meetings are taking place at room "Ernest Hemingway Salon 2 & 3"
Day 1: Thursday, February 23
| 7:30 AM - 8:20 AM | Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:20 AM - 8:40 AM | Welcome Messages and Organizational Notes |
| 8:40 AM - 9:00 AM | Talk: Cynthia Dion-Schwarz, Deputy Assistant Director of the NSF CISE (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) Directorate |
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Round table introduction |
| 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM | Keynote I:The Future of Information Discovery: Content Optimization, Social Networks, Interactivity---It's All Very Cloudy (Slides) Speaker: Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research Abstract: The nature of information discovery has been transformed over the past few years, and the nature of content publication---including journalism and authoring of all kinds---has been evolving in tandem. I will discuss some of the underlying trends that have re-shaped how users keep up with news (about the world, about their communities, about their friends and colleagues), discover and explore topics of interest, and search for specific information they require. First, as people consume information increasingly from websites and digital devices, algorithmic techniques for selecting content have revolutionized the traditional notion of a static publication in which every user saw the same content and presentation: personalized, context-sensitive targeting is becoming the norm, and the role of an editor who shapes this user experience is changing so as to leverage the algorithmic tools to achieve a desired editorial voice. Second, social networks are emerging as an ubiquitous, near-instantaneous distribution channel that publishers must take into account in order to maximize their reach. Third, the distinction between searching for information and discovering information serendipitously is blurring: increasingly, contextual information is triggering relevant searchable companion experiences. For example, while watching a TV program, users can see a stream of relevant entities and topics such as celebrities in a movie or teams and players in a game of soccer, and by clicking retrieve more detailed information on these entities and topics. Finally, cloud computing is an enabling technology for virtually all of the above developments. I will present an overview of these trends, highlighting the computational opportunities and challenges. Speaker's Bio: Raghu Ramakrishnan is Chief Scientist for Search and Cloud Platforms at Yahoo!, and is a Yahoo! Fellow, heading the Web Information Management research group. His work in database systems, with a focus on data mining, query optimization, and web-scale data management, has influenced query optimization in commercial database systems and the design of window functions in SQL:1999. His paper on the Birch clustering algorithm received the SIGMOD 10-Year Test-of-Time award, and he has written the widely-used text "Database Management Systems" (with Johannes Gehrke). His current research interests are in cloud computing, content optimization, and the development of a "web of concepts" that indexes all information on the web in semantically rich terms. Ramakrishnan has received several awards, including the ACM SIGKDD Innovations Award, the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, a Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering, and an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE. Ramakrishnan is on the Steering Committee of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, the Board of Directors of ACM SIGKDD, and is a past Chair of ACM SIGMOD and member of the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment. He was Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was founder and CTO of QUIQ, a company that pioneered crowd-sourcing, specifically question-answering communities, powering Ask Jeeves' AnswerPoint as well as customer-support for companies such as Compaq. |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel I: Social Networks on the Cloud Moderator: Divy Agrawal, University of California-Santa Barbara Panelists: -Anhai Doan, University of Wisconsin and @WalmartLabs (Slides) -Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft Research (Slides) -Evimaria Terzi, Boston University (Slides) -Cong Yu, Google |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Panel II: Mobile applications on the Cloud Moderator: Walid Aref, Purdue University Panelists: -Hakan Hacigumus, NEC Labs (Slides) -Monica Lam, Stanford Univeristy (Slides) -Suman Nath, Microsoft Research (Slides) -Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota (Slides) |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel III: Mobility and Social Network in the Cloud Moderator: Amr El Abbadi, University of California-Santa Barbara Panelists: -Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University (Slides) -Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, University of British Columbia (Slides) -Jennifer Neville, Purdue University (Slides) -Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California (Slides) |
| 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Dinner at Rockbottom Arlington: Martha's Parlor Room (Directions) |
Day 2: Friday, February 24
| 7:30 AM - 8:20 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM | Summary and Conclusions of the Previous day |
| 9:15 AM - 9:55 AM | Keynote II: O
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On
the
Orographic
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Social,
Local,
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Information
Observing (Slides) Speaker: Mike Carey, University of California, Irvine Abstract: According to Wikipedia, “Orographic lift occurs when an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain. As the air mass gains altitude it quickly cools down adiabatically, which can raise the relative humidity to 100% and create clouds and, under the right conditions, precipitation.” Through social media and mobile devices, a mind-‐boggling fraction of the world’s population is contributing on a daily basis to an unprecedented and ever-‐increasing mass of information about the state of the world around us. This opening talk on the second day of the NSF Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud will try to briefly accomplish the following: • Review the orographic forces discussed on the first day – namely, the impact of this new mass of information, originating from people on the surface of our planet, as it rises and leads to the formation of various kinds of clouds. • Discuss ways that the computer science research community and NSF might want to respond to these forces, proposing some objectives and some non‐ objectives for cloud‐related work in our community. • Shamelessly examine the ASTERIX project at UC Irvine as an example of one group’s attempt to respond to today’s orographic information forces, briefly reviewing the capabilities of the ASTERIX software stack and the opportunity that it will present for others to participate as it moves into its planned open‐ source phase later on this year. Speaker's Bio: Michael J. Carey is currently a Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. Prior to rejoining academia in 2008, Carey worked at BEA Systems, Inc. as a chief architect and engineering director for the BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform team. Prior to BEA, Carey spent a number of years as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, at IBM Almaden as a database researcher/manager, and as a Fellow at e‐commerce software startup Propel Software. Carey is an ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award. Carey’s current research interests are data‐intensive computing and scalable data management. |
| 9:55 AM - 10:15 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Three Break-out RESEARCH sessions: - Applications Session (Slides) - Infrastructure Session (Slides) - Privacy Session (Slides) |
| 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM | Picking up Lunch boxes |
| 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Panel IV: Summary of breakout sessions and plans for report writing |