Background Information

• 1998 NSF Information and Data Management Workshop, IDM98
  March 29-31, 1998, Washington D.C.
  NSF IDM98 Proceedings, Judith Klavans and Panos Chrysanthis, editors.
• IDM/DBES and IIS/IRIS Workshop Reports
• The KDI/KN Workshop Reports
• Additional "infrastructure" items that require pre-workshop preparation: See the current IIS and IDM Web Pages at
  • http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/idm_home.html
  • http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/
• President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) Interim Report to the President, August 1998.
  http://www.hpcc.gov/ac/interim/
• Computing Research: Driving Information Technology and the Information Industry Forward. Computing Research Association. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/cra
• NSF Planning Workshop on Distributed Knowledge Work Environments: Digital Libraries. http://www.si.umich.edu/SantaFe
• NSF Workshop on Human-Centered Systems: Information, Interactivity, and Intelligence.
  February 17-19, 1997, Arlington, VA
  Human-centered information systems are a "motto" for our division
• J. Gray. Database Systems: A Textbook Case of Research Paying Off.
  http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/cra/database.html
• P. Bernstein, M. Brodie, S. Ceri, et. al, The Asilomar Report on Database Research, August 1998 Also available in: Postscript and PDF
• A. Silberschatz, M. Stonebraker and J. D. Ullman
  Database Research: Achievements and Opportunities Into the 21st Century.
  Report of the Lagunita II NSF Workshop on the Future of Database Systems Research, May 1995.
• A. Silberschatz and S. Zdonik.
  Database Systems -- Breaking out of the Box.
  Report of the CRA/NSF Sponsored Workshop on Stategic Directions in Computing Database Management Systems Working Group. October 1996.
• H. Schorr and S. Salvatore.
  "Towards the Digital Government of the 21st Century", report prepared from the Workshop on Research and Development Opportunities in Federal Information Services http://www.isi.edu/nsf
• The CRA Workshop at MIT.
• Lagunita Reports:
  • 1990: http://www-db.stanford.edu/~hector/lagi.ps
  • 1995: http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/papers/lagii.ps

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