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1996 COS 425 Spring Semester

About the course

• Personnel (Instructor, TA, Students)
• Course Information

Class updates, information

• Messages, updated frequently
• Homework assignments / Project information

Other useful links

• CMSC 424 University of Maryland at College Park
• CS 266 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
• CS 127 University of Michigan at Dearborn
• CS 266 University of California, Berkeley
• CS 127 Brown University
• CS 285 University Southern California

• CMSC 724 Database Management Systems at University of Maryland at College Park
• CMSC 624 Database Systems Implementation at University of Maryland at College Park

Links to Various Research/Development Areas Related to Databases...

Pointers to more DB related resources, [Click Here]

Active Databases

• University of Florida
• University of Michigan
• University of Colorado, Boulder
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Heriot-Watt University, UK
• University of Linz, Austria

Data Warehousing

• Stanford University
• Data Warehousing Conference

Database Benchmarks/Tuning/Performance

• 007 Benchmark, University of Wisconsin
• TPC Benchmarks
• Sequoia Benchmark, University of California, Berkeley
• City University of London (PRIMA project)
• OOPSLA'95 Workshop on Benchmarks and Performance

Database Security & Authorization

• George Mason University
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Data/Knowledge Mining & Discovery

• GTE Labs
• IBM Almaden Research Center
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Los Alomos National Lab
• University of British Columbia, Canada
• Yet, more web sites for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Distributed Data Management

• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Maryland
• University of Florida
• University of Erlangen, Germany

Indexing Techniques

• Northeastern University

Intelligent and Deductive Databases

• University of Wisconsin
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Georgia Tech
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Heriot-Watt University, UK

Multidatabase Systems

• University of Waterloo, Canada
• Queen's University, Canada

Multimedia Databases

• University of Minnesota
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Oregon Graduate Institute
• University of Massachusetts
• Indiana University
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• IRST, Italy
• University of Palermo, Italy
• Heriot-Watt University, UK
• IBM Almaden Research Center (Garlic Project)
• Text, Image and Video (IBM Almaden Research Center)
• GMD, Germany
• University of Erlangen, Germany
• Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
• University of Alberta, Canada

Object-Oriented Databases

• University of Wisconsin
• University of Michigan
• Brown University
• University of Virginia
• GTE Laboratories
• INRIA, France
• University of Alberta, Canada
• University of Manitoba, Canada
• University of Twente, Netherlands
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• University of Linz, Austria
• ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Linkoping University, Sweden
• Object Database Management Group
• OOPSLA'95 Workshop

Parallel/Distributed Databases

• University of Wisconsin
• University of Twente, Netherlands
• Heriot-Watt University, UK

Spatial Databases

• University of Wisconsin
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Heriot-Watt University, UK
• University of Waterloo, Canada
• University of Minnesota

Transaction Models/Management (Traditional & Advanced)

• University of Massachusetts (Recovery in Shared Memory DBMS)
• University of Massachusetts (Language Support for Extended Transactions)
• ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
• Oregon Graduate Institute
• University of Massachusetts (ACTA Framework)
• University of Massachusetts (Epsilon Serializability)
• University of Massachusetts (Semantics based CC)

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