Presentations

1. Linda Hill and Joy Colucci made a presentation at Hughes in Landover, Maryland, on November 6, 1997 that included an update on the gazetteer project.

2. Paper presented at the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. by the UCSB component of the User Interface Evaluation Team.

3. ``The Alexandria Digital Library: A Java Interface to Geospatial Information.'' Larry Carver, Ron Dolin, Nathan Freitas, Linda Hill, Kevin Lovette, Robert Nideffer, Qi Zheng. Getty Information Institute. Los Angeles, California. January 21, 1998.

4. ``Advanced Visualization Services: Collaborative Desktop Environments.'' Robert Nideffer and Nathan Freitas. Digital Library Initiative: All Projects Meeting. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California. January 5-6, 1998.

5. ``The Alexandria Digital Library.'' Nathan Freitas (with Robert Nideffer). Java Tools for Science Analysis and Visualization. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Pasadena, California. November 19, 1997.

6. ``Overview of the Alexandria Digital Library.'' Kevin Lovette. Isite Clearinghouse Workshop, University of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina. November 7, 1997.

7. ``Alexandria Digital Library Middware Architecture.'' Kevin Lovette. Alexandria Digital Library Systems Design Review. University of California, Santa Barbara, California. October 7-8, 1997.

8. ``Alexandria Digital Library Client Architecture.'' Nathan Freitas. Alexandria Digital Library System Design Review. University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, California. October 7-8, 1997.

9. ``Dynamic Web Design.'' International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), Special Workshop. 1997. Robert Nideffer was invited to conduct a workshop on Online Interface Design. ISEA 97. The Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art. Chicago, Illinois. September 22-27, 1997.

10. ``New Metaphors for Interface Design and Navigation.'' Robert Nideffer. Alexandria Design Review. University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, California. February 19-21, 1997.

11. ``Alexandria Digital Library Middware Architecture.'' Kevin Lovette. EDS/DIS Workshop, Washington D.C. Feburary 3-5 1997.

12. Oscar Ibarra served as a keynote speaker in International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Trivandrum, india, December 1996: ``Efficient Storage and Delivery of Images for the Digital Library'' He received the first ITL Infosys Distinguished Speaker Award in that meeting.

13. ``Classifying Network Architectures for Locating Information Sources'', Ron Dolin. Fifth DASFAA Conference, Melbourne Australia, April 1997.

14. ``Pharos: A Scalable Distributed Architecture for Locating Heterogeneous Information Sources'', Ron Dolin. 6th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '97), Las Vegas, Nevada, Nov. 1997.

15. Ron Dolin gave presentations of his research work at the following locations
    • DLI meeting, December 1997, Berkeley, California
    • HRL Laboratories (Hughes and Raytheon), February 1998, Los Alamitos, California
    • University of Toronto, April 1998, Toronto, Canada
    • Xerox PARC, May 1998, Palo Alto, California

16. Xun Cheng presented his research on materialized joins at the WITS 97 workshop.

17. Oscar Ibarra gave a talk on image storage/delivery as a Barr-Systems Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Florida, Gainesville, September 1997.

18. Dan Andresen gave talks on client-server scheduling in IPPS'97, DLI '97 at CMU, 1997 SoCAL workshop, Kansas State University and WSU.

19. Tao Yang gave talks at ACM SuperComputing'97, 1997 DARPA HPCD workshop, Navy NRaD, Oregon State, U. of Oregon, ENS/Lyon, LMC-IMAG/France. Topics: Scheduling and runtime support for scientific and Web applications.

20. Dan Andresen/Thanasis Poulakidas/David Watson/Ben Smith gave the project demos in the NSF site visits and in NRaD.

21. Oscar Ibarra served as a PC Vice-Chair in International Parallel Processing Symposium (1998), a PC Chair of International Conference on High Performance Computing (1998), a PC Member of International Parallel Processing Symposium (1997), Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems (1997), International Conference on High Performance Computing (1997), International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Commuting Systems (1997), Second Workshop on Randomized Parallel Computing (1997) Fourth International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel (1997), International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (1997), International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (1997).

22. Tao Yang served as the tutorial chair and a PC member of IPPS'97, a PC member of IEEE IPPS '98 - 12th International Parallel Processing Symposium, ICPP'98 - 1998 International Conference on Parallel Processing, International Conference on High Performance Computing (1998), Irregular'98 (fourth International Workshop on Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems), 1997 International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC97), 1997 International Workshop on Parallel Computation and Scheduling in Computers (PCSC '97).

23. Divy Agrawal presented the paper ``Scheduling Tertiary I/O in Database Applications'' at the 8th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 97, Toulouse, France, Sept 1-5 1997

24. Sunil Prabhakar presented the paper ``Browsing and Placement of Multiresolution Images on Parallel Disks'' at the 5th Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS) San Jose, CA, Nov 17 1997.

25. Ron Dolin presented a talk on ``Automated Library of Congress Classification of Internet Newsgroups'' at the DL'97 workshop on Metadata and Thesaurus, Philadelphia, July 1997.

26. Ron Dolin presented a talk on ``Pharos: A Scalable Distributed Architecture for Locating Heterogeneous Information Sources'' at SIGIR'97 workshop on Networked Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, July 1997.

27. Ravi Kanth attended the International Conference on Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 97) at Montreal, Canada.

28. Sunil Prabhakar presented the paper titled: ``Scalable Access within the Context of Digital Libraries'' at the IEEE forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries., ADL 97, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

29. Sunil Prabhakar presented the paper titled ``Cyclic Allocation of Two-Dimensional Data'' at the 14th International Conference on Data Engineering, in Orlando, Florida, March 1998.

30. Sunil Prabhakar made presentations of his research work at the following locations:
    • Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indian, March 1997.
    • Department of Computer Science, University of California, Sanata Cruz, April 1997.
    • Microsoft Research, Redmond Washington, April 1997.
    • AT& T Research, Florham Park, New Jersey, April 1997.
    • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, New Jersey April 1997.

31. Xun Cheng presented the paper ``Optimizing Relational Queries by Materialized Natural Joins'' at the Workshop on Information Technologies and System, Dec. 13-14, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia.

32. Daniel Wu attended Digital Library Initiative 1997, Carnegie-Mellon University, June 5-6.

33. Daniel Wu presented the paper ``A Java-based Distributed Framework for Distributed Processing'' at the Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Modeling 1997 (ER '97), UCLA, November 3-6, 1997

34. Mike Freeston attended 5th International Symposium on Spatial Databases, Berlin, July 1997.

35. Mike Freeston attended 23rd Int. conf. on Very Large Data Bases, Athens, Greece, August 1997.

36. Mike Freeston attended 2nd Int. workshop on Constraint Database Systems, Imperial College, London, September 1997.

37. ``NCGIA's Varenius Project: Advancing Geographic Information Science'' University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 1997, Mike Goodchild.

38. ``GIS, Spatial Analysis, and the Geographical Key'' European Research Conference, ``Socio-Economic Research and Geographic Information Systems'' Il Ciocco, Italy, May 1997, Mike Goodchild.

39. ``The GIS Research Agenda'' University College, London, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and Department of Photogrammetry and Surveying, May 1997, Mike Goodchild.

40. ``From GIS to Geographical Information Science'' London School of Economics, May 1997, Mike Goodchild.

41. ``Research and Development: What has been achieved so far?'' and ``Spatial Information and Its Impact on Society'' Conference: 10 Years After Chorley: The future for geographic information. The Royal Society, London, May 1997, Mike Goodchild.

42. ``Communicating the Results of Accuracy Assessment: Metadata, Digital Libraries, and Assessing Fitness for Use'' First CASSINI International Workshop, Paris, April 1997, Mike Goodchild.

43. ``The Geolibrary'' AGI Guest Lecture, GISRUK '97, Leeds, April 1997, Mike Goodchild.

44. ``Enabling Technologies and Educational Impacts: GIS'' Atlantic Institute Think Tank V, ``Global Education Paradigms in Geomatics/Geoinformation'' Paris, April 1997, Mike Goodchild.

45. ``Modern Geographic Information Systems and Model Linking'' Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands, February 1997. ``Keynote: Geographic Data and the New Information Profession'' ALISE, Washington DC, February 1997, Mike Goodchild.

46. ``The New Generation of Scholars: Do They Really Need Us?'', Mike Goodchild. Invited presentation, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, San Francisco, June 1997.

47. ``Views from the U.S. Mapping Science Committee: Past, present, and future'', Mike Goodchild. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science 1997 Annual Assembly and Summer Retreat, Bar Harbor, ME, June.

48. ``An Update on the US National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis'' and ``GIS and Its Impacts on Organizations: Effects of New Technologies'', Mike Goodchild. ESIG '97, Lisbon, June.

49. ``The GIS Research Agenda'', Mike Goodchild. Keynote presentation, SCANGIS '97, Stockholm, June.

50. ADL contributed a content based search demo at the NSF exhibits center in Washington, DC.

51. Mary Larsgaard attended the Dublin Core 4 meeting in Canberra, also one day International Metadata Seminar; first meeting on 2-4, 2nd on 5th; wrote ``Dublin Core Coverage Element'' strawman for the meeting; chaired committee after meeting that is doing ``final'' Coverage description. Mary also wrote ``Spatial Data in Digital Form for Urban Planning'' for a conference of the Council of Planning Libraries, San Diego; Larry Cruse (Map Librarian, UC San Diego at La Jolla) kindly presented the paper for Mary.

52. Mary Larsgaard also attended the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Nashville; 4 handouts prepared for spatial-data-in-digital-form halfday workshop at ACRL; a paper on Alexandria was prepared and presented at same conference on 4/13 - ``The Alexandria Digital Library''.