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December, 2009: My IPRO (IPRO 327 - A Video Annotation and Indexing System) just won the Information Technology Track in the Fall, 2009 IPRO competition. Congrats, team!
I am scheduled to teach CS525, Advanced Database Organization, in the Spring, 2010 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1125am-1240pm.
September, 2009: I am scheduled to teach CS525, Advanced Database Organization, in the Spring, 2010 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1125am-1240pm.
August, 2009: The employment seminar to prepare students for the upcoming job fair is coming up (tentatively 5pm, Sept. 9). Let Martha Evens or me know if you have any questions.
August, 2009: Welcome back to school everyone! Student lunches (with Matt, Mattox and me) will take place on Wednesdays this semester from 12:40-1:50 in the MTCC. See you there!
May, 2009: I was just awarded a Sun AEG equipment award. Thanks, Sun! This equipment will go to good use!
May, 2009: I just won the 2009 Computer Science Department Teacher of the Year Award! Thanks to all my students again!
May, 2009: I just got my first patent allowed: Method for Improving Local Descriptors in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing., Filed by the Illinois Institute of Technology. Pending application number 11/602,039, allowed May 7, 2009 (Co-Inventor: Ophir Frieder).
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| Research Interests | My main research interests are in the performance of mobile and distributed systems. I am also interested in data warehousing, analysis, and mining, as well as information retrieval.
Keywords: Database Systems, Mobile Computing, Distributed Computing, Middleware
Projects: Video Information System | Peer-to-Peer Systems | Mobile Databases
Recent Papers
W. G. Yee, L. T. Nguyen and O. Frieder, "A View of the Data on P2P File-sharing Systems," JASIST, to appear
W. G. Yee, L. T. Nguyen and O. Frieder, "Alternatives to Conjunctive Query Processing in Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems," In Proc. ACM SAC, 2009
S. Liu, Y. Merhav, W. G. Yee, N. Goharian and O. Frieder, "A Sentence Level Probabilistic Model for Evolutionary Theme Pattern Mining from News Corpora," In Proc. ACM SAC, 2009
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| Courses... |
Spring, 2010: CS 525 - Advanced Database Organization
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| Talks |
Wednesday, April 1, 2009: Duleepa "Dups" Wijayawardhana, Sun Microsystems, Data and application scaling horizontally, SB238, 1130-1230.
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| Want to Get Involved? |
If you're interested in doing database research and building cool stuff, contact me! Independent research projects are generally unpaid, but if I win a Turing Award for our work, I promise to give you a share of the prize money. |
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2010 IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P10) (PC)
Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal on Information Processing and Management: Large Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (CFP)
2010 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA10) (PC)
ACM Sigmod, 2010 (ORG)
Scalable Data Intensive Applications (SDIA 2010), part of the 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, 2010 (PC)
Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments, 2009 (PC)
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| Service | Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
University Faculty Council |
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CV (Updated, Fall, 2003)
Publications (Updated, Fall, 2003)
Righteous Room
Happy Hour!
Play Ultimate!
Every Halloween, I am always dressed up in a funny clown outfit. I am the reigning champion at our department's annual costume party!
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