Digital Symposium Collection (DiSC) Editor's Message
This year we completed the second issue of the ACM SIGMOD Digital
Symposium Collection, DiSC '00. We are especially proud to feature the
video of the SIGMOD/PODS Plenary address by Dr. Jim Gray
(Microsoft), the 1998 A. M. Turing Award Winner, entitled:
``What Next? A Few Remaining Problems in Information Technology''.
Last year, we mentioned that it was the aim of DiSC to become the
``most comprehensive and timely source of information on database
research.'' DiSC '00 has already obtained this objective, by
including the full contents of the proceedings of SIGMOD '99, PODS
'99, VLDB '99, ICDE '99, KDD '99, CoopIS '99, DOA '99, DASFAA '99,
SSDBM '99, WebDB '99, and of the 1999 NSF Information and Data
Management Workshop. The presentation slides and other material for
various invited talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and panels of
SIGMOD, PODS, VLDB, CoopIS, and the EDBT Summer School are also part
of DiSC '00, as is the video of the SIGMOD/PODS Keynote Address by
Dr. Theodore Berger (U. of Southern California).
