• “Standing Out in a Crowd: Selecting Attributes for Maximum Visibility” - Muhammed Miah, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, Heikki Mannila has been accepted in ICDE 2008.
• Congratulations to Amrita Tamrakar on her successful Masters Thesis defense! We wish her the best in all her future endeavors.
• The paper "Computing Best Coverage Path in the Presence of Obstacles in a Sensor Field", by Senjuti Basu Roy, Gautam Das and Sajal Das has been accepted by WADS 2007.
• Congratulations to Senjuti Basu Roy on her successful Masters Thesis Defense!
• Dr. Gautam Das has accepted invitations to be in the Program Committees of SIGIR 2007, KDD 2007, PAKDD 2007, SIAM-DM 2007, SSDBM 2007. Dr. Das is also co-chairing the DBRank 2007 workshop held in conjunction with ICDE 2007
• The STAR system, by Nishant Kapoor, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, S. Sudarshan, and Gerhard Weikum will be demo-ed at the upcoming ICDE 2007 conference.
• The paper "A random walk approach to sampling Hidden Databases", by Arjun Dasgupta, Gautam Das and Heikki Mannila has been accepted by SIGMOD 2007.
• The paper "The Discrete Basis Problem", by Pauli Miettinen, Taneli Mielik䩮en, Aristides Gionis, Gautam Das, and Heikki Mannila received the Best Paper Award of PKDD 2006.
• The paper "Answering Top-k Queries Using Views" by Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nick Koudas, and Dimitris Tsirogiannis was presented at VLDB 2006.
• The paper "Ordering the Attributes of Query Results", by Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, Nishant Kapoor and S. Sudarshan has been accepted by SIGMOD 2006.
• Dr. Gautam Das has accepted invitations to be in the Program Committees of CIKM 2006 and DaWAK 2006.
• Paper by Dr. Gautam Das on Approximating Aggregations in Peer-to-Peer Databases with Benjamin Arai, Dimitrios Gunopulos and Vana Kalogeraki got accepted for ICDE 2006

Upcoming conferences

 The conferences coming up in Database Systems Research:

• VLDB 2007
• KDD 2007
• ICDE 2008