| Title: | A guided tour in spatial databases |
| Date: |
December 17, 2008 (Wednesday)
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| Time: |
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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| Venue: |
Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-hang Engineering Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. |
| Speaker: |
Prof. Tony Yufei Tao
Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
A spatial database supports efficient queries on a large number of multidimensional objects (points, rectangles, etc.), such as range search, nearest neighbor retrieval, their variants, and so on. All these queries are both imperative operators themselves and the building bricks of complex analytical problems in multiple disciplinlaries including data mining, machine learning, image processing, pattern recognition, etc. As a result, spatial databases have been the focus of active research in the past 30 years. In this talk, we will discuss several important topics that have drawn considerable attention in the database community. The materials will serve as good entry points to further references into the literature.
BIOGRAPHY:
Prof. Tony YF Tao is engaged in research of database systems and he is currently an assistant professor in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is particularly interested in index structures and query algorithms on multidimensional data, and has published primarily on temporal databases, spatial databases, and privacy preservation. He received the Hong Kong young scientist award in 2002.
He has served the program committees of most prestigious database conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and is currently an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). He is a member of the ACM.
Enquiries: Miss Temmy So at tel 2609 8444
For more information, please refer to http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/seminar