VLDB - Panels Social, Educational, and Governmental Change Enabled through Information Technology Krithi Ramamritham Yeha El Atfi Carlo Batini Michael Eitan Valerie Gregg D. B. Phatak A 20/20 Vision of the VLDB-2020? S. Misbah Deen Anant Jhingran Shamkant B. Navathe Erich J. Neuhold Gio Wiederhold Panel: Is Generic Metadata Management Feasible? Philip A. Bernstein Laura M. Haas Matthias Jarke Erhard Rahm Gio Wiederhold Panel: Future Directions of Database Research - The VLDB Broadening Strategy, Part 1 Hans-Jörg Schek Panel: Future Directions of Database Research - The VLDB Broadening Strategy, Part 2 Michael L. Brodie Return to VLDB session listing DiSC'01 Copyright ©2002 ACM Inc.