OBSOLETE PAGE April 2002

This is no longer the IEEE TCDE web page. Please go to New Page

IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering

The Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) of the IEEE Computer Society is concerned with the role of data in the design, development, management and utilization of information systems. Issues of interest include database design; knowledge of data and its processing; languages to describe data, define access and manipulate databases; strategies and mechanisms for data access; security and integrity control; and engineering services and distributed systems. The TCDE sponsors the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). It publishes a quarterly newsletter, the Data Engineering Bulletin. There are approximately 1500 members of the TCDE.

If you are a member of the IEEE Computer Society, you may join the TCDE and receive copies of the Data Engineering Bulletin without cost. Just fill out the form on http://computer.org/tcsignup/

ICDE 2002:

The ICDE year 2002 conference will be held in San Jose, California, February 26 to March 1, 2002. An announcement for this conference is at http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/icde2002/

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Some recent announcements:

--- The Data Engineering Bulletin will continue but will not be mailed in paper unless specifically requested. It is available electronically at www.research.microsoft.com/research/db/debull. If a member wants paper copies, he or she must write to the volunteer coordinator at IEEE CS headquarters (1730 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington D.C.20036-1992, USA).

--- The TCDE is maintaining a webpage for the NSF workshop on Industrial/Academic Cooperation in Database Systems at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/IEEE/ind-acad/ This workshop was sponsored by the NSF (National Science Foundation) to address the problems and barriers to collaboration between academics and industrial architects and researchers. Several prominent DBMS architects were invited to speak and their powerpoint presentations are available at the website as well as a detailed summary of the meeting and some additional resource material.

--- The SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE anthology of conference proceedings in database systems will be available to all SIGMOD and TCDE members free of charge thanks to the efforts of Rick Snodgrass, president of ACM SIGMOD and Matt Loeb of the IEEE CS publications. This CDROM collection will contain the ICDE proceedings, the Data Engineering Bulletin, the proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD conference and the VLDB conference and some other database related material.

For recent online issues of the Data Engineering Bulletin, see our Bulletin www page: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/db/debull

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The Asian version (based in Japan) has English, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, French and Indonesian and it's the best-looking in all languages: http://www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/OtherInfo/TCDE/TCDEe.html

Executive committee of the TCDE