Sponsored by Boston/Central New England Chapter of IEEE Computer Society, GBC/ACM and Vertica, Sun Microsystems, NEDS, Netezza

Cost: Free

Purpose: To assemble the DBMS research and development community from New England-area companies and colleges to network, share problems, solutions and insight. This will give participants new ideas they can apply to their business, technology research or product development.

Invited talks by:

• Prof. David Dewitt (University of Wisconsin)
• 2nd Speaker TBD
• Short (20-30 minute) talks by area academic researchers and industry practitioners
• Posters and demos of interesting systems

Registration: Please register by January 10, 2008 at http://db.csail.mit.edu/nedbday08/htdocs/.

Submissions: If you would like to give a talk or present a poster/demo please upload a short 1/2 page talk description or poster demo/abstract by January 10th to http://db.csail.mit.edu/nedbday08/htdocs/.

Organizing Committee: General Chairman of the event is Mike Stonebraker (MIT). Program Committee Chair is Samuel Madden (MIT). Members of the program committee are Stan Zdonik (Brown), Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis), and Elke Rundensteiner (WPI)

See http://db.csail.mit.edu/nedbday08/ for additional details.