New Directions in Computer Science
Computer science is undergoing a fundamental change. Over the last 40 years the field was concerned with making computers useful. Focus was on programming languages, compilers, operating systems, data structures and algorithms. These are still…
Concept-Based Web Search
2012 Jim Gray Award / The Possibilities and Pitfalls Internet-Based Chemical Data
2012 Jim Gray eScience Award Presentation At the Microsoft eScience Workshop 2012, Microsoft Research Connections Vice President Tony Hey introduces the Jim Gray eScience Award and announces this year’s winner, Antony John Williams, who delivers…
Publishing and eScience Panel
Scientific Publishing in a Connected, Mobile World Speaker: Mark Abbott New tools for content development and new distribution channels create opportunities for the scientific community, opening new venues for collaboration, review, and self-publication. However, publishing…
Overview of “Big Data” Research at TU Berlin
Intro – By Volker Markl Part 1 – Query Optimization with MapReduce Functions, Kostas Tzoumas Abstract: Many systems for big data analytics employ a data flow programming abstraction to define parallel data processing tasks. In…