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New England Database Society sponsored by Sun Microsystems |
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NEDS |
Data Management for Location-Based Services
Christian S. Jensen
Center for Data-Intensive Systems
Department of Computer Science
Aalborg University
http://daisy.aau.dk
Friday, March 27, 2009, 4PM
Volen 101, Brandeis University
(preceded by a wine and
cheese reception at 3:00 pm, and followed by dinner at 6:00 pm)
Abstract:
The Internet is going mobile, and
indications are that on a global
scale, the mobile Internet will be "bigger" than the conventional
Internet. This talk describes the motivation, status, and goals of an
ongoing research project and evolving system, called Streamspin, that
supports data management aspects of mobile Internet services.
Streamspin aims to power sites that enable users to create and share
geo-social services, and that are capable of delivering services to
millions of concurrent users. The talk covers two fundamental services.
The first supports the tracking of the continuously changing positions
of populations of mobile-service users. The second extends the context
of a user to include not only the user's current location, but also the
user's (anticipated) destination and route towards that
destination. If time permits, the talk will also cover issues to
do with privacy.
Speaker Bio:
Christian S. Jensen is a Professor of
Computer Science at Aalborg
University, Denmark. His research concerns data management and spans
issues of semantics, modeling, and performance. He is an IEEE Fellow
and a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, the EDBT
Endowment, and the VLDB Endowment's Board of Trustees. He received Ib
Henriksen's Research Award 2001 for his research in mainly temporal
data management and Telenor's Nordic Research Award 2002 for his
research in mobile services.
He is an editor-in-chief of The VLDB Journal and has served on the
editorial boards of ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, and the IEEE Data Engineering
Bulletin. He was PC chair or co-chair for SSTD 2001, EDBT 2002, VLDB
2005, MobiDE 2006, MDM 2007, and TIME 2008.
He is currently on sabbatical at Google Inc., Mountain View. He works
in Google Research's structured data group headed by Alon Halevy.
Maintained by Olga Papaemmanouil olga AT cs.brandeis.edu