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SUMMARY:Shahram Ghandeharizadeh(USC): Intelligent 3D Multimedia Displays using Flying Light Specks
DESCRIPTION:The Computer Science Department and Information Systems Group (ISG) \nat UC Irvine welcomes \nShahram Ghandeharizadeh \nUniversity of Southern California \n  \nIntelligent 3D Multimedia Displays using Flying Light Specks \nJanuary 12 at 11:00AM \nDBH 6011 \n\nAbstract: A Flying Light Speck\, FLS\, is a miniature sized drone equipped with one or more light sources to generate different colors and textures with adjustable brightness. Synchronized swarms of FLSs illuminate complex 2D and 3D shapes in a  fixed volume\, a 3D display. An FLS display may be a cuboid that sits on a table or hangs on a wall\, the dashboard of a self-driving vehicle\, a room\, etc. Its illuminations provide haptic feedback by detecting a user’s touch and flying to exert force back. This presentation describes use of an FLS display in two diverse multimedia applications that generate 3D data\, entertainment and healthcare. We present an architecture for a 3D FLS display and novel algorithms to localize FLSs to illuminate complex 2D and 3D shapes\, compute FLS flight paths to render a motion illumination\, use dark standby FLSs to maintain the quality of an illumination in the presence of FLS failures\, and STAG as a novel battery charging framework for FLSs.  \nBio: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin\, Madison\, in 1990. Since then\, he has been on the faculty at the University of Southern California. His research interests include design\, implementation and evaluation of novel architectures for high performance data intensive applications\, multimedia based social networking systems\, parallel and cache-augmented database systems. His research team designed and implemented one of the first video-on-demand servers prior to the introduction of DVDs. This system was licensed by Panasonic for research and development purposes. His current efforts with FLS displays is an extension of this prior work to realize a 3D display. His research efforts have been recognized by numerous awards including the NSF Young investigator award\, ACM Software Systems award\, USC School of Engineering research award\, among others.  \n 
URL:https://isg.ics.uci.edu/event/shahram-ghandeharizadeh-intelligent-3d-multimedia-displays-using-flying-light-specks/
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SUMMARY:Henry F. Korth (Lehigh University): Blockchain: Computer Science Foundations\, Positive Social and Business Impact\, and Research Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:The Computer Science Department and Information Systems Group (ISG) \nat UC Irvine welcomes \nHenry F. Korth \nLehigh University \nBlockchain: Computer Science Foundations\, Positive Social and Business Impact\, and Research Opportunities \nJanuary 19 at 11:00AM \nDBH 6011 \n  \nAbstract: To start\, basic concepts of blockchain systems will be introduced assuming only a basic background in computing. The key properties that distinguish blockchains from traditional databases will be explained along with an introduction to the mathematical concepts that make them possible.   \nWe next survey briefly current and emerging blockchain applications and their benefits to business and to society as a whole.   \nThe latter and main part of the talk presents research currently underway at Lehigh: \n\nAcceleration of the generation of zero-knowledge proofs on modern parallel architectures\,\nA consensus mechanism for the implementation of global-scale central-bank digital currencies in a manner that allows privacy along with transparency and regulatability\, \nA framework for benchmarking blockchain systems\, including current work extending the existing framework to layer-2 blockchain systems\n\nWe conclude with a brief survey of other development projects in Lehigh Blockchain with industry partners \n  \nBio: Korth’s current research is focused in blockchain systems\, with an emphasis on blockchain system internals and applications in financial systems. For full details on his blockchain work\, spanning research and education\, see blockchain.cse.lehigh.edu. More broadly\, Korth’s research focuses on database systems\, information systems and distributed systems. He is co-author of Database Systems Concepts\, now in its seventh edition. Previously\, Korth was Director of Database Principles Research at Bell Laboratories\, Vice President of Panasonic Technologies\, and Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Korth is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. At the 1995 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases\, his paper “A Model of CAD Transactions” was chosen as “Most Influential Paper from the Proceedings of Ten Years Ago.”  At Lehigh\, he has served as department chair and directed the Lehigh-unique Computer Science and Business degree.  He currently holds a concurrent courtesy appointment in the Decision and Technology Analytics Department in Lehigh’s College of Business and is director of the Blockchain Lab in Lehigh’s Center for Financial Services. \n 
URL:https://isg.ics.uci.edu/event/henry-f-korth-lehigh-university-blockchain-computer-science-foundations-positive-social-and-business-impact-and-research-opportunities/
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SUMMARY:Volker Markl (TU Berlin): Mosaics of Big Data: Database Systems and Information Management – Trends and a Vision
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Volker Markl \nChair of the Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) Group at TU Berlin \nDirector of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) \nChief Scientist and Head of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data Research Group at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) \n \nMosaics of Big Data  Database Systems and Information Management – Trends and a Vision \n\nAbstract: The global database research community has greatly impacted the functionality and performance of data storage and processing systems along the dimensions that define “big data”\, i.e.\, volume\, velocity\, variety\, and veracity. Locally\, over the past five years\, we have also been working on varying fronts. Among our contributions are: (1) establishing a vision for a database-inspired big data analytics system\, which unifies the best of database and distributed systems technologies\, and augments it with concepts drawn from compilers (e.g.\, iterations) and data stream processing\, as well as (2) forming a community of researchers and institutions to create the Stratosphere platform to realize our vision. One major result from these activities was Apache Flink\, an open-source big data analytics platform and its thriving global community of developers and production users. Although much progress has been made\, when looking at the overall big data stack\, a major challenge for database research community still remains. That is\, how to maintain the ease-of-use despite the increasing heterogeneity and complexity of data analytics\, involving specialized engines for various aspects of an end-to-end data analytics pipeline\, including\, among others\, graph-based\, linear algebra-based\, and relational-based algorithms\, and the underlying\, increasingly heterogeneous hardware and computing infrastructure. At TU Berlin\, DFKI\, and the Berlin Institute for Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) we currently aim to advance research in this field via the NebulaStream and Agora projects. Our goal is to remedy some of the heterogeneity challenges that hamper developer productivity and limit the use of data science technologies to just the privileged few\, who are coveted experts. In this talk\, we will outline how state-of-the-art SPEs have to change to exploit the new capabilities of the IoT and showcase how we tackle IoT challenges in our own system\, NebulaStream. We will also present our vision for Agora\, an asset ecosystem that provides the technical infrastructure for offering and using data and algorithms\, as well as physical infrastructure components.  \n  \nBio: Volker Markl is a German Professor of Computer Science. He leads the Chair of Database Systems and Information Management at TU Berlin and the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data Research Department at DFKI. In addition\, he is Director of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). He is a database systems researcher\, conducting research at the intersection of distributed systems\, scalable data processing\, and machine learning. Volker led the Stratosphere project\, which resulted in the creation of Apache Flink. Volker has received numerous honors and prestigious awards\, including best paper awards at ACM SIGMOD\, VLDB\, and ICDE as well as the ACM SIGMOD Systems Award. In 2014\, he was elected one of Germany‘s leading “Digital Minds“ (Digitale Köpfe) by the German Informatics Society and is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He was elected an ACM Fellow for his contributions to query optimization\, scalable data processing\, and data programmability. He served President of the VLDB Endowment\, and serves as advisor to academic institutions\, governmental organizations\, and technology companies. Volker holds eighteen patents and has been co-founder and mentor to several startups. \n 
URL:https://isg.ics.uci.edu/event/volker-markl-tu-berlin-mosaics-of-big-data-database-systems-and-information-management-trends-and-a-vision/
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