This is the first issue of the ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium
Collection. We are happy to share with you all the material that we have
gathered in the last year and we hope to meet the expectations that DiSC
has already produced!
DiSC is a yearly electronic journal that aims at
becoming the most comprehensive and timely source of information on database
research. DiSC '99 includes the full contents of the 1998 SIGMOD Record
and the proceedings of SIGMOD/PODS '98, VLDB '98, and of two workshops
sponsored by the US National Science Foundation. We also include MPEG videos
of the two SIGMOD keynote talks by Bill Gates (Microsoft) and David
Patterson (University of California at Berkeley) and a host of other material
not available in the SIGMOD/PODS paper proceedings, such as presentations
and snapshots from the demonstrations.
In this issue of DiSC, there are 3700 HTML documents,
over 400 PDF files, more than 2000 image files, and 11,000 links.
Therefore, we provide different search methods, including
full-text search of the papers, to help you navigate through all this information.
DiSC '99 has been made possible by all the ACM SIGMOD
members and authors who have contributed electronic versions of their papers
and by the effort of the production team at the ADVIS lab of the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.
We are in the process of considering new initiatives
for future editions of DiSC, including the publication of original research
work that is best presented in multimedia format. We hope you will enjoy
the material herein and we welcome your comments and suggestions at our
DiSC
feedback site.
Isabel F. Cruz
Founding Editor
Worcester, April 17th, 1999
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