Alon Halevy
Keynote speakers
- Kenji Doya
- Alon Halevy
- Astrid Prinz
- Andrew Schwartz
- Shankar Subramaniam
- Arthur Toga
Workshop speakers
- Bart ter Haar Romeny
- Uri Eden
- Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen
- Tim Clark
- Alan Ruttenberg
- Jeffrey Grethe
- Arnd Roth
- Wulfram Gerstner
- Peter Hunter
- Markus Diesmann
- Andrey Semin
- Pietro Liò
- Albert Cardona
- Giorgio Ascoli
- Rolf Kötter
Alon Halevy
Title: Data-Management at Web Scale
Google Inc., Mountainview, USA
Abstract: Though the World-Wide Web is mostly known for its vast collection of textual data, the Web also offers access to millions of structured databases in almost every domain imaginable. Leveraging these collections for better search raises some significant challenges. In addition, the Web enables novel opportunities for collaborative data creation, management and analysis. In this talk I will describe some of the projects at Google that address these challenges.
In one project we crawled the content of millions of databases behind forms and now serve content from these databases to over 1000 queries per second. In the second, I will describe what can be done with a collection of 150 million high-quality data tables, 5 orders of magnitude greater than any previous collection ever managed. Finally, I will describe novel tools for collaborative data creation and discussion.
Bio 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 his Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1993.