Areas of Interest:

• Advanced Database Systems
• Data Warehousing
• Distributed and Parallel Processing
• Internet Computing
• Data Mining

Some Past Research Projects:

The Conquest System (CONcurrent QUEries over Space and Time) at Data Mining Laboratory, UCLA.

• Dynamic Re-Optimization of Query Execution Plans
• User-Defined Operator Development

Useful Links:

• Conferences:

  • Database Events (Calls for Contributions)
  • Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Conference
  • ACM SIGMOD
  • DBWorld Mailing List
  • International Science and Technology for Development
  • IDEAS
  
  

• Companies and Organizations

  • IBM
  • Informix Corp.
  • MicroSoft
  • Lotus
  • Novell Inc.
  • Oracle Corp.
  • Sun Micro
  • Sybase Corp.
  • Object Database Management Group
  • CORBA and Object Management Group
  • NASA
  
  

• Archive:

  • Researchers Resources: Engineering and Computer Science
  • Computer Journals/Magazines on the Web
  • The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
  • Stanford Computer Science Department Electronic Library
    
    
  • World Wide Web Consortium
  • SQL, SQL2, SQL3, Temporal SQL
  • Database and Logic Programming
  • Programming Language Research
    
    
  • A First Course in Database Systems
    
    
  • HyperText Webster Dictionary
  • Dictionary of Computing
  • Self-Organized Dictionary
  • How to be a good Computer Science Graduate Student
  • Computer Science Papers
  • DBLP
  
  

• Tools:

  • Java Handbook
  • The Java Tutorial
  • Java 1.1 Documentation
  • Java 1.1 API
  • Sun Answerbook
  • Background Textures
  • Browse Web in Chinese (Big 5) under Unix
  • Greek Alphabet
  • LaTex 1.1
  • A Beginner's Guide to HTML
  • StarNet Communication (Running X-Window Applications on PC)