The database research community's appetite for new applications
has led to increased interest in the data management needs of
scientists. This area encompasses a huge range of applications,
extending from public repositories of observational data such as
the popular Sloan Digital Sky Survey to one-of-a-kind runs of
simulation codes crafted by individual scientists. In this talk,
we will survey the most common data management needs found in
the hard sciences, describe the new database research challenges
that arise from these needs, and outline ways to address some of
these challenges.
Marianne Winslett has been a professor at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1987.
Her current research interests include information security and
data management for scientific
applications. She has served on the editorial boards of ACM
Transactions on Database Systems and IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and is currently
on the board of ACM Transactions on
the Web. She is a past vice-chair of ACM SIGMOD, an ACM Fellow,
and the recipient of an NSF
Presidential Young Investigator Award.
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