Keynote Lectures

  • Alon Halevy (Google, USA)

    • Title
        • Structured data on the web

    • Abstract
        • Though search on the World-Wide Web has focused mostly on unstructured text. there is an increasing amount of structured data on the Web and growing interest in harnessing such data. Moreover, structured data is starting to play a greater role in many of the social movements enabled by the Web. such as citizen participation in government. I will describe several current projects at Google whose overall goal is enable people to create and share structured data on the Web and to leverage structured data in Web search.

        I will describe out system for crawling millions of "deep-web" sites, that offer access to high-quality data through HTML forms and the WebTables and Octopus that leverage structured data in HTML tables and lists on the surface web and enable users to piece together multiple data sets. Finally, I'll describe Fusion Tables, a recently launched data-management service that lets users create and visualize structured and easily and emphasizes the ability to collaborate with other data owners.

    • Biographical sketch

        • Alon Halevy heads the Structured Data Management Research group at Google. Prior to that, he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1999, Dr. Halevy co-founded Nimble Technology, one of the first companies in the Enterprise Information Integration space, and in 2004, Dr. Halevy founded Transformic Inc. a company that created search engines for the deep web, and was acquired by Google. Dr Halevy is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, received the the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers(PECASE) in 2000, and was a Sloan Fellow(1999-2000). He published over 150 technical papers. He received gis Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1993.

  • Won Kim (Kyungwon University, Korea)

    • Title
        • The Dark Side of the Internet

    • Abstract
        • The Internet has changed world, mostly for the better. However, there is the dark side to it. We now live with spam, viruses/worms, spyware, denial of service attacks, clock fraud, phishing, etc. Offline crimes have migrated to online, such as child pornography, scams, gambling, etc. There is also a "less dark" side that is an byproduct of a revolution which we all just have to live with. this includes the unsavory uses of the Internet, societal paradigm shifts, cyber warfare, etc. In this paper, I will review the status of the dark and "less dark" side of the Internet, examine technological and legal means of dealing with it, and suggest causes of and apporach to dealing with it.

    • Biographical sketch

        • Won Kim is currently a lifetime professor and vice president with Kyungwon University in Seongnam, S. Korea. He is also a senior advisor with Xener Systems, Inc. in Seoul, S. Korea. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a B.S. and M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best-known as one of the pioneers of object-oriented and object-relational database technologies. He led the ORION object-oriented database systems project at MCC, Austin, Texas in the late 1980s. He founded UniSQL and created the world's first commercial object-relational database system in the early 1990s. On the side, he founded and served as Chair of ACM's SIGKDD data mining society, and as Editor-in-Chief of ACM's Transactions on Internet Technology journal. He also served as Chair of ACM's SIGMOD data management society, and as Editor-in-Chief of ACM's Transactions on Database Systems. He is an ACM Fellow, and received such awards as ACM's Distinguished Services Award, ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Research Award, VLDB Ten Year Best Paper Award, etc. His current research umbrella is social computing architecture, which includes such subjects as social Web sites, Internet search engine architecture, Web mining, cloud computing, networked embedded systems, and HCI usability.