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        | Technical
        Program |  
        | A message from the conference general chairs (Alexandros Biliris
        and Inderpal Mumick) and research program committee chairs (Oded Shmueli and Jennifer
        Widom). |  
        |  | Schedule |  
        |  | Invited
        talks |  
        |  | Atomicity
        versus Anonymity: Distributed Transactions for Electronic Commerce. Prof. Doug Tygar (CMU and UC Berkeley)
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        |  | Technology
        and the Future of Commerce and Finance. David E. Shaw (Chairman and CEO, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.)
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        |  | DBMSs:
        From Data Management to Enterprise Management. Charles Rozwat (Senior Vice President, Oracle Corporation)
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        |  | The
        Rebirth of Database Machine Research. Dina Bitton (Integrated Data Systems) and Jim Gray (Microsoft Research)
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        |  | Tutorial
        program |  
        |  | Includes tutorials on - Electronic commerce
 - Web caching
 - Financial time series data: array database systems
        and object-relational and object database systems,
 - Database reverse engineering
 - Data mining and KDD: overview with details on some
        mining methods and financial applications
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        |  | Research
        sessions |  
        |  | Panels |  
        |  | Three sessions discussing issues on - Is web-site management a database problem?
 - Information, communication, and money: for what can we
        charge and how can we meter it?
 - Starting (and sometimes ending) a database company
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        |  | Systems
        exhibits |  
        |  | Includes exhibits from the following
        companies: Advanced Communication Technology, Bell Labs, Compaq, Daimler-Benz, IBM, Informix,
        Inventure America, MapInfo, Microsoft, Mihalisin Associates, Objectivity, and Oracle.
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        |  | Book exhibits |  
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