Information Retrieval List Digest 379 (November 3, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-379 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 November 3, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 41 Issue 379 ***************************************************************** I. QUERIES/NOTEWORTHIES 1. Context and Conceptual Fuzzy Filtering on the WWW II. JOBS 1. U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: SLIS, Assistant Professor 2. U. Missouri-Columbia: School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, Assistant or Associate Professor III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. E-serials Book 2. JASIS & Wiley InterScience 3. Web of the ASIS European Chapter B. Meetings 1. Text Retrieval '97 2. TEI 10th Anniversary -- Final Program C. Miscellaneous 1. ELSNET Summer School IV. PROJECTS C. Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF Information Technology and Organizations Program 2. NSF 1997 PECASE Award Winner: Renee Miller ***************************************************************** I. QUERIES/NOTEWORTHIES I.1. Fr: Stanley Rice Re: Context and Conceptual Fuzzy Filtering on the WWW This is about easy and relevant access to media collections of text and/or images--for researchers, publishers, educators, collectors, SIGs, intranets, etc. (Pro bono--nothing for sale.) What is required for context and concept filtering? Only: [A SIG] + [A SMALL THEMATIC VOCABULARY] + [A TARGET COLLECTION] (SIG = a special interest group, of any size or character) Suggestions for special-interest access points to discussions: --For an introduction to Thematic filtering: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/ --An introduction to materials available: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/accessit.htm --A practical approach to visual files: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/access0.htm --A practical approach to romance, and marketing: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/xmatches.htm --An image, of image filtering, and some words: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/epicture.htm --For some publishing aspects: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/ebook.htm --For examples of pocket thesauri (SIG pidgins): http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/quikstar.htm --For some symptom<-->remedy correlation methods: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/accessf.htm There are many other access points and links available on the Autospec site. I get requests for books. I too dislike reading material on the tube. Unfortunately, the WWW, its search engines, and its methods, are now changing too fast for descriptions of Thematics to be caught in books. (1/3 page article in Santa Cruz Sentinel, Oct 27). Reactions, including flames, are always appreciated. Cheers, Stan Rice THEMATICS: Conceptual & Marketing Access to Text and Media AUTOSPEC, Inc. Santa Cruz, CA. Stan Rice Voice: (408) 457-1430 E-mail: autospec@cruzio.com WWW: http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/ ***************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Dietmar Wolfram Re: U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: SLIS, Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Library and Information Science ASSISTANT PROFESSOR The School of Library and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) invites applications for the full-time tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science. This individual will teach courses and conduct research in information organization and either computer and information systems or information and media technology. A Ph.D. in Library and Information Science or related field is required. The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability in research and teaching. Minimum salary is $40,000 for an academic year (9 month appointment), plus additional compensation for possible summer teaching and generous fringe benefits. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a major university committed to academic excellence. It is one of the two doctoral degree-granting institutions in the multi-campus University of Wisconsin system, and has a student enrollment of over 22,000. The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) offers programs leading to the nationally accredited Masters in Library and Information Science, the certificate in advanced studies, and the doctorate. An undergraduate program in Information Resources will soon be implemented. The School has a strong research faculty, 350 students, and state-of-the-art information technology laboratories. UWM is located in the cultural, commercial, and educational hub of the state, in a pleasant residential neighborhood overlooking Lake Michigan. Deadline of application: Postmarked by January 16, 1998. The starting date is August 24, 1998. Send letters of application, resume, and three letters of reference to: Dr. Judith J. Senkevitch, Chair, Executive Committee School of Library and Information Science University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201 Phone: (414) 229-4707 (General number) (414) 229-5027 (Direct) Fax: (414) 229-4848 Email: senkevit@csd.uwm.edu SLIS web: www.slis.uwm.edu The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to the diversity of faculty, staff, and student body. ********** II.2. Fr: Jeannie Ruth Re: U. Missouri-Columbia: School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, Assistant or Associate Professor Assistant or Associate Professor School of Information Science and Learning Technologies College of Education University of Missouri-Columbia http://coe.missouri.edu/~sislt The College of Education seeks a highly motivated assistant or associate professor to work with nationally and internationally recognized faculty in contributing to the mission of the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. Candidates will be expected to: attract research funding from external agencies; conduct research; supervise graduate student research; teach graduate courses; and advise students in master's and doctoral programs. Scholars and researchers whose expertise addresses both conventional and web-based information retrieval are encouraged to apply. Candidates should possess expertise in the design and development of information systems in a user-centered environment. Key areas include: Systems analysis; Systems design; Database and Knowledge base design; Hypermedia systems design and development; or, some combination of these areas. It is expected that the successful candidate have expertise in the evaluation of systems for large-scale information retrieval incorporating a range of applied information technologies. Qualifications: an earned doctorate in an area that supports the research, development, and instructional mission of the position; experience in the application of research to information and learning applications; strong potential to attract external research and development funding. The School of Information Science and Learning Technologies offers an M.A. in Library Science, an M.A./M.Ed. in Educational Technology, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. Collaborative research among faculty is facilitated by research groups with interests in Information Retrieval Research, Cognition and Information Technology, Medical Informatics, and Technology Innovations in Education. MU is the oldest state university west of the Mississippi River and the largest of the four institutions in the University of Missouri System. It is one of the most comprehensive and diverse universities in the United States and proudly embraces the land grant mission. MU has a student body of over 22,000 at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The College of Education is one of 18 schools/colleges on campus, has a student population of 1,200 undergraduate and 900 graduate students, and a tenure-track faculty of some 90 members. As a member of the American Association of Universities, a state land grant institution, and a university classified Research I by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, MU is a premier provider of graduate and professional education. MU is engaged in a process of identifying its unique niche, building on strengths and comparative advantages, and addressing major unsolved problems and issues. A bottom-up planning process is in place which captures the enthusiasm and motivation of our best faculty. The University of Missouri-Columbia complies with the guidelines set forth by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. If you have special needs as addressed by this legislation and need assistance with this or any portion of the application process, notify us at the address below as soon as possible. Efforts will be made to accommodate your special needs. Salary: Competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. Appointment: Nine-month, tenure track appointment, to begin as early as January 1, 1998 or after. Applications: Submit a letter of application including the names of three references; a vitae; a statement of research, development, and teaching interest; selected publications; and evidence of teaching effectiveness to: Dr. Thomas Kochtanek, Chair of Search Committee 217 Townsend Hall School of Information Science and Learning Technologies University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 E-mail: iskoch@showme.missouri.edu Phone: (573) 882-8919. Review date: Submission of application materials in electronic form is encouraged. Formal review of applications will begin December 1, 1997, and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Missouri-Columbia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged. ADA contact: Jeannie Ruth, (573) 882-9538. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Wayne Jones Re: E-serials Book Hello, The full texts of six articles about several aspects of e-serials -- publishing, pricing, acquisition, cataloging, metadata -- are now available at: http://web.mit.edu/waynej/www/onlineserials.htm The articles are selected from "E-Serials", which is to be published as a special volume (v. 33) of "Serials Librarian" (and as a hardbound book) in spring 1998. Wayne Jones Associate Head for Serials Cataloging Serials and Acquisitions Services MIT Libraries, Room 14E-210A 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 waynej@mit.edu (617) 253-4637 (617) 253-2464 (fax) ********** III.A.2. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS & Wiley InterScience John Wiley & Sons, publishers of the _Journal of the American Society for Information Science_ (JASIS) has introduced a new web service that includes JASIS. Wiley InterScience includes a sophisticated search engine across all Wiley journals (400+ journals, including JASIS for 1996 and 1997) and allows the user to create a personal home page on which to activate automated search procedures and store search results and personal annotations. [NOTE & Warning: InterScience requires registration, and this process will be tweaked to make it more intuitive. In registering, you must go to the "terms" page, signify your acceptance and complete your registration there. Trying to register from the "logon" screen will not work and you will only see a demo section where the subscriber features do not work.] A WWW site dedicated to JASIS will be introduced in the future which will include full text articles for a significant period and will complement the print JASIS. Thus, the InterScience site is part of a corporate program that will continue despite the greatly enhanced and expanded JASIS-only site. The JASIS-only site is envisioned as eventually including full text of JASIS going back at least 5 years initially, much longer eventually, and, at minimum, tables of contents and abstracts going back to Volume 1, Number 1 (Wiley assumed publication of JASIS with Volume 27). This site, as envisioned, will also include preprints of articles upon acceptance, thus virtually eliminating the publications backlog; an area of supplementary materials (software, additional data, even commentary, etc.); a demonstration area; article summaries; and other rich features to make JASIS more useful and accessible. As Charles Ellis, Wiley President and CEO, said, "demand for important, reliable, and timely scientific, technical, and medical information continues to increase worldwide. We are committed to providing the information our customers need and supplying it via the delivery mechanisms they prefer, whether in print or electronic form." Richard Hill Executive Director, American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill@asis.org http://www.asis.org ********** III.A.3. Fr: Michel Menou Re: Web of the ASIS European Chapter Thanks to the efforts of a team from the Department of Information Science of the University of Constance, Germany, the ASIS European chapter has now a Web site. Come and see http://asis-europe.uni-konstanz.de One of the feature is a discussion list which allows you to place messages and announcements. We hope it will help enhancing the dialogue among members across the Atlantic. The site is also aiming at providing an easy gateway to Information science related sites in Europe. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Jonathan Furner Re: Text Retrieval '97 TEXT RETRIEVAL '97: NEW RESEARCH, NEW PRODUCTS Barbican Conference Centre, London EC2, England, 4 November 1997 http://www.irsg.eu.org/tr97.htm Text Retrieval '97 is the latest in the successful series of conferences organised by the Institute of Information Scientists on advances in text retrieval systems. For this year's one-day event, the Institute is joining forces with the British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group to provide an exceptionally high-calibre programme including state-of-the-art reviews not only of the latest products, applications and options available on the market today, but also of the developments in theory and research that will drive the systems of tomorrow. And all at prices substantially below those charged for commercially-sponsored conferences! Expert speakers (including Professors David Harper, Steve Robertson and Peter Willett) will evaluate the retrieval solutions offered in a range of environments, including in-house databases, online services, and the World Wide Web. Attendance at the conference will be essential for information scientists, Webmasters, Intranet managers, application developers, librarians, researchers, and all producers, suppliers, managers and users of text databases who need to keep up-to-date with the latest advances in the field. To book your attendance, for a full- or half-day, please call or write for a booking form: The Institute of Information Scientists 44-45 Museum Street London WC1A 1LY England Tel: (+44) (0)171 831 8003 Fax: (+44) (0)171 430 1270 Email: iis@dial.pipex.com CONTACTS For the IIS: Pablo Dubois (dubois@intercafe.win-uk.net) For the BCS-IRSG: Jonathan Furner (j.furner@rgu.ac.uk) ********** III.B.2. Fr: Allen Renear Re: TEI 10th Anniversary -- Final Program TEI 10th ANNIVERSARY USER CONFERENCE Brown University Providence, Rhode Island November 14-16, 1997 http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10 To commemorate the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is sponsoring its first user conference, to be held 14-16 November 1997 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The TEI was established at an international planning meeting on text encoding standards, held at Vassar College on November 12-13, 1987. The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange were published in spring of 1994. They provide an extensive SGML-based scheme for encoding electronic texts across a wide spectrum of text types and suitable for any kind of application. The Guidelines have already achieved wide-scale implementation in projects throughout North America and Europe. The TEI is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. PROGRAM: (see http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10 for schedule) Opening Keynote: Looking Back Thirty Years and Forward Three: Critical Themes in the Development of the Electronic Book Andy van Dam, Brown University Closing Keynote: XML Ubiquity and the Scholarly Community Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Chair, W3C XML Work Group PRESENTATIONS: Syd Bauman and Terry Catapano (Brown University, Rutgers College) TEI and the Encoding of the Physical Structure of Books David A. Smith (Tufts University) Textual Variation and Version Control in the TEI Gary Simons (Summer Institute of Linguistics) Using architectural forms to map TEI data into an object- oriented system Nancy Ide, Tim McGraw and Chris Welty (Vassar College) Representing TEI Documents in the CLASSIC Knowledge Representation System Alan Morrison and Jakob Fix (Oxford University) Delivering Electronic Texts Over the Web -- The Experiences and Practices of the Oxford Text Archive Janet Erickson (University of Michigan) An SGML/HTML Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress) Do Digital Libraries Need the TEI? A View From the Trenches Brad Eden (North Harris Montgomery Community College District) Metadata, TEI, and the Academic Library Community: An Update Michael Popham and Lou Burnard (Oxford University) Putting our headers together Daniel Greenstein (Kings College, London) The TEI Header - a Metadata Package? Philip Resnik, Mari Broman Olsen, Mona Diab (University of Maryland) Creating a Parallel Corpus from the Book of 2000 Tongues Dominique Estival and Nick Nicholas (The University of Melbourne) TEI Encoding and Syntacting Tagging of an Old French text Richard Gartner and Lou Burnard (Oxford University) A TEI extension for the description of medieval manuscripts Syd Bauman (Brown University) Keying names: The WWP Approach David J. Birnbaum and Mavis Cournane (University of Pittsburgh, University College Cork) Using the TEI Writing System Declaration Steven DeRose (INSO Corporation) The Relation Between TEI and XML David Chesnutt (University of South Carolina) The Text Encoding Initiative and the Model Editions Partnership Nicholas Finke (Center for Electronic Text in the Law) TEI Extensions for Legal Text John Lavagnino (Brown University) What Not to Tag Derek Walker (Queens University) Taking Snapshots of the Web with a TEI Camera Laurent Romary (CRIN-CNRS & INRIA Lorraine) Silfide: A System for Open Access and Distributed Delivery of TEI Encoded Documents Erik van den Hout (Groningen University) Independent Links - A Maintenance Advantage? ********** III.C.1. Fr: European Network in Language and Speech Re: ELSNET Summer School ELSNET's 6TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION ROBUSTNESS: REAL LIFE APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH Barcelona, Spain 13-24 July 1998 Organized by the Department de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions (UPC) and the Departament de Filologia Espanyola (UAB), Barcelona, Spain. The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) announce the Sixth European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication. The central theme of the summer school will be 'Robustness: Real Life Applications in Language and Speech'. The event is sponsored by ELSNET and TMR. Robustness is perhaps the greatest single challenge for our understanding of speech perception and for speech technology. How can we understand speech when its quality has been degraded, when there are other sounds present, or when the listening conditions are different from those in training? Speech-based courses will cover robustness issues in understanding informal speech, in robust automatic speech recognition and in the auditory system. Robustness is also a challenge as far as natural language processing is concerned. Informally written language or transcriptions of spoken language such as spontaneous dialogues are seldom composed of well-formed or grammatical sentences, and real life systems have to be able to cope with this kind of input. NLP-based courses will deal with robust parsing techniques both for text and for spoken dialogues, with language understanding and with topics such as style checking which are highly relevant for commercial applications. The Summer School will include courses on Practical NLP, Robust Speech Recognition, Statistical Parsing, Finite-State Parsing/Style Checking, Robust Analysis of Speech, Forensic Phonetics, Robust Message Understanding, Auditory Scene Analysis, and Robust Efficient Parsing for Spoken Dialogue Processing. The target audience of the Summer School are advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, postdocs and academic and industrial researchers and developers. The Summer School will last for two weeks, and the programme will include plenary sessions, parallel courses and practical workshops. The final programme will be available from December 1997 onwards. Keep checking our WWW-pages (http://gps-tsc.upc.es/veu/ess98/ also available via ELSNET's Home Page at http://www.elsnet.org). All necessary information will be available there. TMR GRANTS: ELSNET has successfully applied for TMR funding (Training and Mobility of Researchers) to provide grants to participants of the ELSNET summer school (total 25.000 ECU for 1998). Each grant will cover the full or partial cost for travel, accommodation, and subsistence. Cost for registration cannot be covered by TMR. Conditions for TMR grants: It is ELSNET's aim to put special emphasis on activities which will ensure equal access to the Information Society for all European citizens and language communities. As a result, participants from the following categories are eligible: - young researchers (i.e. under 36!) from less-favoured regions - young researchers from the smaller and 'less-favoured' language communities - young researchers employed by SME's (small and medium-sized enterprises) In addition, please note that - applicants should be nationals of an EU Member State or of an Associate State (i.e. Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Israel), which means that participants from CEENIS are not eligible - undergraduate students are not eligible How to apply for a TMR grant: An application (and registration) form will be made available on the web together with the final programme. All applications will be considered by a small committee with representatives from ELSNET, ESCA and EACL. IMPORTANT DATES: Pre-registration deadline: February 15, 1998 Deadline for grant applications April 1, 1998 Registration deadline: May 1, 1998 Grant notification May 1, 1998 Payment deadline: June 1, 1998 COMPLETE INFORMATION: ELSNET Summer School Secretariat Dep. Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Jordi Girona 1-3 MOD D5 08034 Barcelona. Spain fax:+34-3 401 64 47 http://gps-tsc.upc.es/veu/ess98/ lectronic form is encouraged. ***************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Les Gasser Re: NSF Information Technology and Organizations Program NSF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONS PROGRAM (soon to be renamed "Computation and Social Systems Program") National Science Foundation Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Division Information Technology and Organizations (ITO) Program The ongoing Information Technology and Organizations (ITO) Program supports research fundamental to understanding and developing computing and communications at organizational and social levels, and understanding the relationships between computation, information processing, and human social systems of all sizes and scales. Topics of research supported under this program include theory and models of organizational information/knowledge processing; networked information systems for scientific collaboration; multiagent systems/distributed artificial intelligence; coordinated work and decisionmaking; and impacts/policy implications of information technology. For more detailed information, please see the URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/ITOhome.html For submission dates and some other pertinent information, see: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/targets.html Les Gasser Program Director Information Technology and Organizations Program Room 1115 National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, Va. 22230 (703) 306-1927 (v) (703) 306-0599 (f) lgasser@nsf.gov gasser@usc.ed ********** IV.C.2. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF 1997 PECASE Award Winner: Renee Miller PRESIDENT NAMES OUTSTANDING YOUNG U.S. SCIENTISTS THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 23, 1997 PRESIDENT NAMES OUTSTANDING YOUNG U.S. SCIENTISTS President Clinton today named 60 young researchers to receive the second annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their careers. The Presidential Awards were established by President Clinton in February 1996, and are intended to help meet the Administration's goals of producing the finest scientists and engineers for the twenty-first century and maintaining U.S. leadership across the frontiers of scientific research. The awards recognize young scholars, research contributions, their promise, and their commitment to broader societal goals. "These gifted young professionals exemplify the best of our science and technology community and will help set the scientific pace for the U.S. and the world in the years ahead," the President said. "Their passion for discovery and their determination to explore new scientific frontiers will drive this Nation forward and build a better America for the twenty-first century." Ten government agencies join together annually to nominate promising scientists and engineers for the awards. Those selected receive up to $500,000 over a five-year period to further their research and broadly advance science for important government missions. The supporting Federal agencies are: the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Veterans , Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. The awards will be presented in a White House ceremony on November 3, 1997. The recipients are: Department of Agriculture Eric J. Gustafson, North Central Forest Experiment Station Laura Lee McConnell, nvironmental Chemistry Laboratory Sara L.F. Sunden, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Department of Commerce Gregory T. Linteris, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST Christopher R. Monroe, Physics Laboratory, NIST Erik N. Rasmussen, University of Oklahoma Thomas J. Silva, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, NIST Department of Defense Nicholas L. Abbott, University of California, Davis David S. Citrin, (Navy) Washington State University Robert L. Clark, Jr., (Air Force) Duke University Elliot Douglas, (Army) University of Florida Joel T. Johnson, (Navy) Ohio State University Ying-Cheng Lai, (Air Force) University of Kansas Peter Schiffer, (Army) University of Notre Dame Department of Energy Bruno S. Bauer, University of Nevada at Reno Andrew Brandt, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory David J. Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lori Ann Freitag Diachin, Argonne National Laboratory Thomas Matula, University of Washington David E. Newman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory John Shanklin, Brookhaven National Laboratory Department of Veterans, Affairs J. Michael Gaziano, VA Medical Center Martin R. Gluck, VA Medical Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration Elfatih A.B. Eltahir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jonathan A. Foley, University of Wisconsin at Madison Cila Herman, Johns Hopkins University Mark V. Hurwitz, University of California at Berkeley Todd T. Schlegel, Johnson Space Center Eun-Suk Seo, University of Maryland at College Park National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services Russ B. Altman, Stanford University Juan C. Izpisua-Belmonte, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Anirvan Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Macrae F. Linton, Vanderbilt University Peter Mombaerts, Rockefeller University Michael K. Rosen, Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Patrick J. Stover, Cornell University Michele S. Swanson, University of Michigan Medical School Roland M. Tisch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Sharon L. Walsh, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center David A. Wassarman, National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation Jill E. Bargonetti, Hunter College of CUNY Peter N. Belhumeur, Yale University Geoffrey E. Hill, Auburn University Daniel P. Lathrop, Emory University Jon P. Longtin, SUNY at Stony Brook Timothy A. McKay, University of Michigan Steven W. McLaughlin, Georgia Institute of Technology *Renee J. Miller, Ohio State University* David P. Morton, University of Texas at Austin Linda K. Nozick, Cornell University Katherine Okikiolu, University of California, San Diego Ann M. Sastry, University of Michigan Lori A. Setton, Duke University Jaswinder P. Singh, Princeton University Eileen M. Spain, Occidental College Florence I. Thomas, Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory Lonny L. Thompson, Clemson University Daniel W. van der Weide, University of Delaware Patricia A. Van Zandt, Johns Hopkins University Miguel Velez-Reyes, University of Puerto Rico Congratulations to Renee!!! I am very happy to be able to bring these great news to you all. Renee's award is a great personal achievement for her, and also a very visible recognition of the database/information systems research field. I hope to see more winners from this community in the future years. I am attaching the abstract of Renee's winning research and educational project. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Division Database and Expert Systems Program IRI-9702974 Renee J. Miller Dept. of Computer and Info. Science, Ohio State University CAREER/PECASE: Managing Schematic Heterogeneity in Database Management Systems Schematic heterogeneity arises when information that is represented as data under one schema, is represented within the schema in another, for example as relation or class names. Schematic heterogeneity is an important class of heterogeneity that arises frequently in multimedia databases, semi-structured data and in integrating legacy data for data warehousing applications. Traditional query languages and view mechanisms are insufficient for reconciling and translating data between schematically heterogeneous schemas. The goal of this research project is to permit the cooperative use of schematically heterogeneous schemas and the data structured under these schemas. The project addresses the development of novel languages and techniques for: (1) the transformation and integration of schematically heterogeneous schemas; (2) the integrated querying of data from schematically heterogeneous schemas; and (3) the efficient evaluation of queries over integrated views. The techniques are analyzed for efficiency, correctness and completeness. In addition, the techniques are implemented within a heterogeneous repository of medical data. An evaluation of this implementation is used to refine and extend the results. The educational component of this project aims to enhance undergraduate and graduate participation in research, particularly among women and minority students. This is accomplished through curriculum enhancement, expanding undergraduate research opportunities and establishing academic enrichment programs for graduate minority students. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~rjmiller ***************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests and submissions to: nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Editorial Staff: Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous FTP via the host ftp.dla.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). Search or browse archived IR-L Digest issues on the Web at: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/irlist/ These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. 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