Conference Highlights, Registration Hours & Social Events

The final program of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference is available as a postscript file (1238K). The following lists some of the highlights, the registration hours and the social events associated with the joint conference.

Conference Highlights

Registration Hours

Social Events

Highlights of the Joint Conference

PODS

Invited Talk by Ronald Fagin (IBM Almaden).

3 Tutorials on:

Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Sys.
External Memory Algorithms
Databases in Digital Libraries: Where Computer Science and Information Management Meet

Presentation of 28 papers in the Technical Program.

SIGMOD

Presentation of the SIGMOD Awards.

2 Invited Talks by:

Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
David Patterson (UC, Berkeley)

Presentation of 42 papers in the Technical Program.

2 Panel Sessions on:

Are we working on the right problems?
Next Generation DBs won't work w/o semantics!

7 Industrial Sessions on:

The Next Generation of Data Access
DB Systems Management
Information Dissemination
Databases in Practice
Document Systems
Web Applications
Web Site Management and Applications

4 Tutorials on:

Electronic Commerce
SAP R/3
Java and Relational DBs
High-Dimensional Index Structures

Demos of 19 experimental database prototypes

Workshops

Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB'98): Innovative Application Programming and Query Interfaces
Constraint Databases (CDB'98)
Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Registration Hours

Date	Time	Location
Sunday, May 31st	5:00--9:00pm	Alki
Monday, June 1^st	7:30am--7:30pm	Alki
Tuesday, June 2^nd	7:30am--5:30pm	Alki
Wednesday, June 3^rd	7:30--11:45am & 1:30--5:30pm	Alki
Thursday, June 4^th	7:30--9:30am	Alki

Social Events

Event	Date	Time	Location
Early Registration Reception	Sunday, May 31^st	6:00--8:00pm	Alki
Welcoming Reception and Demonstration Fair	Monday, June 1^st	7:00--10:00pm	Snoqualmie
PODS Business Meeting	Monday, June 1^st	9:00--10:00pm	Orcas
SIGMOD/PODS Awards Lunch	Tuesday, June 2^nd	12:00--2:00pm	Flag Pavilion
Reception - Sponsored by Microsoft	Tuesday, June 2^nd	7:30--9:30pm	Microsoft Redmond Campus (Buses departing from Seattle Center at 7:10pm)
SIGMOD Business Meeting/Lunch	Wednesday, June 3^rd	11:30am--1:30pm	Flag Pavilion
Conference Banquet	Wednesday, June 3^rd	7:00--10:00pm	Pacific Science Center

Conference Highlights

Registration Hours

Social Events

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