Please check this page for updates and announcements.  Each new entry will have a date associated with it.

Saturday, December 6, 2003

• The GMU web site says that we are open for business.  The Scientific Database Symposium will proceed as scheduled.  See you at 8:30 for setup and 9:00am for the first talk.

Friday, December 5, 2003

• The snow has raised questions as to the Research Symposium tomorrow.  At this time, we plan to have the Symposium as scheduled.
• Please check this page Friday and especially Saturday morning of late-breaking news.

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

• The SSDBM 2004 Web Site. 

Important dates:

• January 19 Paper abstracts due

• January 26 Full and industrial papers as well as panels, tutorials, demos due.

• March 29  Notification About acceptance

• April 16 Camera Ready due

Tuesday, December 2, 2003

• Today we will review the Homework Assignments 2 and 3.
• Please read the material in the Schedule Page for this class, in particular the Shoshani, Gray and Pedersen papers and slides.
• We will also discuss the Research Symposium logistics.
• Students will fill out the Faculty Evaluation Forms.

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

• Dr. Borne has posted the most recent slides and other material.  Please visit http://rings.gsfc.nasa.gov/~borne/gmu/
   
• Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

• The Research Symposium Schedule is posted.
• The Take-Home Final is posted here.
• Dr. Borne's Presentations are available: November 11, and November 18.

Monday, November 3, 2003

• Dr. Kafatos' lecture slides are available as a 21 Megabyte ZIP Archive download.

Monday, October 27, 2003

• Tomorrow's class (10/28/03) will cover the material scheduled for November 4.  Dr. Kafatos will lecture on November 4.
  
  The readings  may be found on te Schedule Page.  We will review the papers on Metacat and the Earth Science Workbench.
  
  Also on the OLAP page we will review the Shoshani, Pedersen and Gray papers.

Tuesday, October 21, 2003

• Link to Workshop Report "Toward an Earth Science Enterprise Federation: Results from a Workshop (1998)", by the National Academy of Sciences.

Tuesday, October 8, 2003

• Dr. Jamison's Slides for tonight presentation are here.

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

• Dr. Jamison's Lecture Page on Databases for Bioinformatics.  Link also available on Schedule Page (September 30, Lecture).
   
• Call for Papers: International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management.
   
• IBM Serves Up Virtual Computing, as report in CNET.

September 26, 2003

• Dr. Kerschberg's book has been published by Springer. 
  The Functional Approach to Data Management.

September 23, 2003

• Dr. Jamison's Lecture Page has been updated with a link to Nucleic Acids Research and a Position Paper.  Please have a look at these before class. 
• The homework solutions have been coming in via mail. Please post them on your Group Web Sites. 

September 16, 2003

• Recall that your groups should submit your Project Outline and Scope Statement today.  Several groups have already done so.
• I am updating the XML Lecture page today.   There were various broken links. 
  Here is the link to it.
• The Industry Standard has an interesting article on IT Globalization.

September 9, 2003

• I have updated the Group Projects page with all the information you have sent me thus far.  If something is missing, please let me know.
• Please send me your URL for the project home pages.
• We will continue with SSDBM requirements and also Conceptual Modeling today.
• Homework 1 is available via the Assignments Page
• Oracle, Homeland Security and DoD.
• FBI Forensic Science Communications.

August 26, 2003

• Slides for today's lecture available here.