Preliminary Agenda

As stated in the Request for Information (RFI): Digital Object Storage and Retrieval (DOSR) SN08-33, attendance at this workshop is by invitation only.

If you did not receive an invitation to this workshop, based on a submission to the SN08-33 RFI, please do not register. Uninvited registrations will be rescinded.

July 15
8:30 am Opening remarks - DARPA
8:45 am Dr. Robert Kahn - keynote address
9:15 am Dr. Peter Lucas – MAYA – The Universal Database
9:35 am Dr. Chris Mattmann – NASA/JPL – A Model Driven Architecture for Highly Distributed, Data Intensive Systems
9:55 am Break
10:15 am Dr. Ajay Divakaran - Sarnoff Corp. – Multimedia Meta-Data Extraction and Organization for Very Large Databases
10:35 am Dr. Randal Burns – Johns Hopkins U. – Remote Data Checking: Toward Verifying Remote Computations
10:55 am Dr. Shmuel Peleg – Hebrew U. – Jerusalem – Digital Video Storage and Retrieval
11:15 am Mr. Jason Byassee – Northrop Grumman – Smart Archiving
11:35 am Dr. James Allan – U. Mass-Amherst – Secure and Effective Distributed Search using Fingerprints
11:55 am Dr. Rafail Ostrovsky – UCLA – Survivable Distributed Search and Storage Resilient Against An Insider Adversary
12:15 pm Lunch
1:40 pm Dr. Urs Muller – Net-Scale Tech. – Robust Vendor Independent and Secure Distributed Storage Mesh
2:00 pm Dr. Wendy Bellumini & Dr. Matt Staker – IBM Research – Secure, Distributed Storage with Cell Processor Acceleration
2:20 pm Dr. Angelos Stavrou – Global InfoTek Inc. – Secure Information Sharing and Tracking
2:40 pm Break
3:00 pm Dr. Peter Brusilovsky – U. Pittsburgh – Named Entities for User Modeling, Personalized Information Access, and Information Exploration
3:20 pm Dr. Michael Walfish – UT-Austin – Achieving the Potential of Provenance With Information Tracking
3:40 pm Dr. Rafael Alonso – SET Corp. – Improving Digital Object Storage and Retrieval Through User Modeling
4:00 pm Mr. Peter Haglich – Lockheed Martin – Similarity Based Intelligent Information Dissemination and Positioning
4:20 pm Break
4:40 pm Poster Session 1
5:20 pm Poster Session 2
6:00 pm Adjourn


July 16
9:00 am Dr. Josh Alspector – DOSR vision and breakout group instructions
9:30 am Breakout group discussions
Noon Lunch
1:30 pm Brief out Group 1
2:00 pm Brief out Group 2
2:30 pm Break
2:50 pm Brief out Group 3
3:20 pm Brief out Group 4
3:45 pm Plenary Session
4:15 pm Adjourn