C3S2E'12
Fifth
International C* Conference on Computer Science & Software
Engineering
Montreal, QC, CANADA
27-29 June, 2012
Invited Talk
Foundations and Applications of Schema Mappings
Phokion Kolaitis, Professor,
Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between database schemas. Schema mappings are prominent in several different areas of database management, including database design, information integration, data exchange, metadata management, and peer-to-peer data management systems. Our main aim in this talk is to present an overview of recent advances in data exchange and metadata management, where the schema mappings are between relational schemas. In addition, we highlight some research issues and directions for future work.
Phokion Kolaitis is a Professor of Computer Scienceat UC Santa Cruz and a Research Staff Member of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Department (a.k.a. the Theory Group) at the IBM Almaden Research Center. From July 1997 to June 2001, he served as Chair of the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Cruz. From June 2004 to September 2008, he served as Senior Manager of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center (and while on leave of absence from UC Santa Cruz). His research interests include principles of database systems, logic in computer science, and computational complexity.
Kolaitis is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and the recipient of a 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also the recipient of an IBM Research Division Outstanding Innovation Award, an IBM Research Division Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and a co-winner of the 2008 ACM POS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award.
Health: a new concept and many new opportunities in the Age of Social Media
Alejandro (Alex) R. Jadad, MD DPhil
University of Toronto and
University Health Network
In the second decade of the 21st century, social media are ushering a
second wave in the evolution of the Web. Very rapidly, applications
such as Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have risen to
be among the most used sites on the Web, re-shaping how humans
communicate, learn and live. Mobile communication devices are
converging with Internet-based services, penetrating every region of
the planet at a speed that dwarfs the growth in the adoption of
personal computers or any other preceding technological
innovation. These devices can now access hundreds of thousands of
applications directly through the Internet, promising to satisfy
almost any human need for information and communication.
Almost in parallel with this explosion of information and
communication technologies, a demographic tsunami of chronic disease
is forcing us to rethink the meaning of health. As a generation with
the rare privilege to witness the emergence of a new set of powerful
technologies and to reinvent the models by which we live, we must look
beyond the technological hype, and try our best to understand what
works, what does not work and what could be harmful.
This session will give participants an opportunity to learn about a
re-conceptualization of health that is spreading throughout the world,
and emerging innovations in social media that could enable us to
reduce unnecessary suffering. It will also underscore key
methodological, political, cultural, technological and financial
challenges that must be addressed urgently if we are to harness the
power of information and communication technologies to improve the way
in which we design, develop, provide, receive and evaluate health and
wellness services.
