Combining Inverted Indices and Structured Search for Ad-hoc Object Retrieval accepted at SIGIR. An overview of HYRISE in IEEE Data Eng. Bull. Downscaling Entity Registries with VUA and Verisign at DOWNSCALE. Graph Data Management Techniques for the large-scale deployment of Semantic Web technologies invited paper at GDM.

Fresh arrival, slide decks on the menu: Entity-Centric Data Management (presentation given at MIT CSAIL, DERI, and IBM Research Smarter Cities Centre); tutorial on Semantic Search (by Demartini et al. at ECIR); tutorial on Scalability in Semantic Data Management (Schloss Dagstuhl).

Want to benchmark relational or cloud databases? Here is our one-stop, open-source solution: OLTPBench. We hope you'll like it as much as we do! This is joint work w/ Carlo Curino [Yahoo! Research] and Andy Pavlo [Brown].

Our latest foray into Online Entity territory was accepted at the World Wide Web conference! [acceptance rate: 12%]
ZenCrowd: Leveraging Probabilistic Reasoning and Crowdsourcing Techniques for Large-Scale Entity Linking
 
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Heartfelt thanks to Amazon for selecting us for an AWS in Education Research Grant!

Big splash at ISWC 2011 w/ dipLODocus[RDF] accepted to the research track [acceptance: 19%], a DNS^3 demo w/ VeriSign, a ScienceWise demo [won the Best Demo Award!] and an Outreageous Idea for eScience [acceptance: 20%, won one of the Outragous Ideas Prizes!]

Our latest SciDB paper on "Efficient Versioning for Scientific Array Databases" has been accepted to ICDE 2012! This is a join work w/ Adam Seering, Sam Madden and Mike Stonebraker from MIT. Abstract:

XI is hiring! 

The slides from our VLDB tutorial on Graph Data Management are now available! 
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux and Sameh ElinketyGraph Data Management Systems for New Application Systems: Social Networks and the Web of Data
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