Taming the Data

Welcome to the home page of the Taming the Data invited-speaker series at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. This invited-speaker series, hosted by the Department of Computer Science at NC State, features speakers in databases and related areas. Abstracts of some of the past years’ talks can be found here and here.

This invited-speaker series has been made possible thanks to generous support from:

• Eastman Chemical
• ePartners program
• NC State Engineering Foundation

Upcoming talks

• TBA

Some past talks

• Tuesday, April 2, 2019 – Wang-Chiew Tan: Enabling Search by Experience. EBII 3211 – NC State Centennial Campus. 10am.
• Monday, March 4, 2019 – Phokion Kolaitis: Schema Mappings and Data Examples: An Interplay between Syntax and Semantics. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 10am.
• Thursday, April 12, 2018 – Rachel Pottinger: Improving Understanding and Exploration of Data by Non-Database Experts. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 10am.
• Thursday, March 23, 2017 – Arnon Rosenthal: Human-in-the-Loop Rulesets for Legalese, Alerts, and Access Control. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 2pm.
• Thursday, March 23, 2017 – Arnon Rosenthal: Data Integration Systems and the Plethora of Standards: Joining Research and Pragmatics. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 10:30am.
• Friday, March 3, 2017 – Moshe Vardi: The Automated-Reasoning Revolution: From Theory to Practice and Back. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 10:30am.
• Friday, April 15, 2016: M. Tamer Özsu: Web Data Management in the RDF Age. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 10:30am.
• Friday, April 1, 2016: Wolfgang Gatterbauer: Linearized and Single-Pass Belief Propagation. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 10:30am.
• Monday, February 29, 2016: Stratos Idreos: Data Systems that are Easy to Design, Tune and Use. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 10:30am.
• Tuesday, February 9, 2016: Chengkai Li: Tackling Usability Challenges in Querying Massive, Ultra-heterogeneous Graphs. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 10am.
• Monday, November 24, 2014: John Harer: Topological Data Analysis. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 1:30pm.
• Friday, November 7, 2014: Radhika Kulkarni: Succeeding with Business Analytics – Key Challenges. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 10am.
• Friday, March 7, 2014: Flavio Villanustre: Solving Big Data Problems with the Open Source HPCC Systems Platform. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 9:30am.
• Friday, February 21, 2014: Christos Faloutsos: Large Graph Mining – Patterns, Explanations, and Cascade Analysis. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 11am.
• Friday, February 7, 2014: Kartikanand Narayan: Informatica Vibe – Unleashing the Information Potential. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 9:30am.
• Friday, January 24, 2014: Juan Reutter: A Recursive Approach for Defining Reachability Queries over Graph Databases. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 11am.
• Friday, October 25, 2013: Guido Cervone: A Geoinformatics Approach for the Analysis of Remote Sensing, Model and Social Media ‘Big Data’ to Study Environmental Hazards. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 11am.
• Friday, January 25, 2013. Richard Snodgrass: Database Ergalics: Examining Suboptimality. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 11am.
• Friday, October 19, 2012. Denise Hatzidakis: Transforming Healthcare through Collaboration – Turning Data into Actionable Information. EBII 3211 — NC State Centennial Campus, 9:30am.

Directions to Centennial campus and parking information can be found here.