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I am currently at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California.
Until December 2006, I was
a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the
University of Washington.
I'm no longer maintaining this site. It contains all my publications
and activities through 2006. You can see my new (and evolving)
homepage . Recently, I've gone Web 2.0, so I'm planning to write mostly
on my blog.
The main goal of my research is to build
tools that simplify people's access to data, typically in complex data
environments which I refer to as dataspaces. To support this
goal, my areas of research are integrating data from multiple
(structured and unstructured) sources, machine learning approaches to
resolving schema heterogeneity, personal information management,
management of XML data, and query processing and optimization. I am
very interested in the combination of techniques from Artificial
Intelligence and Data Management. I believe that the data management
community should shift its focus away from enterprise computing and
consider consumer-facing applications. Dataspaces offer an abstraction
at which problems relevant to consumer-facing applications can be
addressed.
My two current main research projects are the Semex Personal Information
Management System, and using Machine Learning for resolving
semantic heterogeneity.
As a profeessor I taught graduate and undergraduate courses in data management, and
believe in introducing
some of my research ideas as early as I can in the
curriculum (see a paper I wrote
on my data management course.)
I am also an entrepreneur in my free time. I have founded two
companies: Nimble Technology (Enterprise Information
Integration) and Transformic (Deep Web Search).
In my other free
time, you can either see me at the gym under a big pile of
weights, jogging, in a movie cinema, trying to explain to a
barista how to prepare a double split-shot 2% wet
cappuccino, or, more likely, with my wife
Oriana
and our two kids
Karina and
Kasper.
Recent updates:
- Elected ACM
Fellow, 2006.
- The Information Manifold paper received
the VLDB 2006 10-year Best Paper Award (i.e., the most influencial
paper from VLDB 1996). In honor of the occasion, we wrote a
10-year
retrospective on data integration research and industry.
- I've recently given a few keynotes on dataspaces:
- My PODS 2006 paper on dataspaces
outlines a specific list of technical
challenges relating to dataspaces.
- Kasper Elior was born on
October 26th, 2005!
- The first paper on
dataspaces is out.
It appeared in the December
2005 issue of the SIGMOD Record. Dataspaces (and their associated
Dataspace Support Platforms) offer a new abstraction for considering
data management problems that arise in consumer-facing applications,
such as web search, personal information management, the "smart"
home, digital libraries and scientific data management.
- I recently decided to learn JavaScript, and this web site is the
result. (The old one is still
available).
- Our demonstration of the Semex System was chosen as one of the
top 3 demos of SIGMOD 2005.
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