Scaling for the Internet series, meeting 10
Data Mining and Broadcasting News over the Internet
9:00am-9:30am: Coffee/Network
9:30am-12:00pm: BART Meeting
Hyatt Rickeys Hotel - Palo Alto
4219 El Camino Real
Tel (650) 493-8000
Checks should be made payable to UC Regents.
No reservations required.
Application of Data Mining to Information Access
on the Internet
Umeshwar Dayal, Laboratory Scientist for Information Management Solutions,
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories,
dayal@hpl.hp.com
Data mining has become an active area of research, attracting people from several disciplines: database systems, artificial intelligence, statistics, information retrieval, and data visualization. Data mining products and toolkits are now commercially available, and serious industrial applications are being developed. This talk will provide a brief overview of data mining, and then focus on applications of data mining to facilitating information access on the Internet. On-going research projects at HP Labs in the areas of collaborative filtering, electronic business, and customer support will be used to illustrate the concepts and techniques.
Biography: Umeshwar Dayal is Laboratory Scientist for Information Management Solutions at Hewlett-Packard Labs., where he currently is technical lead on research projects in data mining solutions. Prior to joining HP Labs, Umesh was a senior researcher at DEC's Cambridge Research Lab., Xerox Advanced Information Technology, and Computer Corporation of America, and on the faculty at the University of Texas-Austin. Umesh has published extensively in the areas of database systems, transaction management, and workflow systems. He is on the Editorial Board of four international journals, and has chaired and served on the Program Committees of numerous conferences. He is a member of the Board of the VLDB Endowment and the International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems.
The Pointcast Network: Broadcasting News on the
Internet
Satish Ramakrishnan, Director of Server Engineering,
Pointcast,
satish@pointcast.com
PointCast Inc., the inventor and leader in broadcast news via the Internet and corporate intranets, delivers news as it happens from leading sources such as CNN and the New York Times directly to a viewer's computer screen. The PointCast Network is an integrated client/server system which gives users control of selecting kinds of information the client retrieves and the frequency of those retrievals. PointCast Client runs on the user's computer and retrieves information from the Central Broadcasting Facility which is composed of multiple sites geographically distributed over the US, each carrying a number of web servers called "PointServers". PointServers are highly customized and "infinitely" scalable to serve close to 200 million requests in a day. The PointCast Network receives content from about 600 different sources via satellite links or the internet. A cluster of servers runs customized processes round the clock to assimilate data from various sources. This presentation will describe the basic plumbing of the PointCast Network including:
Biography: Satish Ramakrishnan is Senior Director of Software Development and Director of Server Engineering for Pointcast, Inc.
Coordinator: Patricia Cornwell, Hewlett-Packard Company, patricia_cornwell@hp.com
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The Irvine Research Unit in Software wishes to thank its corporate sponsors:
Sustaining:
The Boeing Company * Boeing North American, Inc. * Microsoft Corporation
Northrop Grumman Corporation * Raytheon Company * Sun Microsystems Laboratories * TRW
Supporting:
Beckman Coulter * FileNet Corporation * Printronix, Inc.Continuus Software Corporation * Hewlett Packard
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BART or
IRUS, contact
Debra Brodbeck
at (949) 824-2260;
brodbeck@ics.uci.edu
Irvine Research Unit in Software