Music

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W E L C O M E !

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Paris 1976

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World of Wine

Japan

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And if this trend continues…….

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And if this tre

nd continues…….

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Cabernet SauvignonGrape vs. Wine

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CIKM 2008 Organizing Committee

SihemAmer-Yahia Yi Zhang Alek Kolcz Diane Kelly

Abdur Chowdury

GregGrefenstette Neel

Sundaresan

Mounia Lalmas

Goutham KurraYan Qu

Ryen W. White

David A. Evans

Marius Pasca

Disco Gerdes

THANK YOU!

James Shanahan

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Organizational Sponsors

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Gold Level Sponsors

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Silver Level Sponsors

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Bronze Level Sponsors

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Video Sponsor

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Maximizing Your Experience

at CIKM 2008

Cour

tyar

d1

Cour

tyar

d2

Hotel Layout

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Lunch

• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday• No badge, no coupon, no lunch, no exception!!

• For vegetarian options please see the wait staff

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Session Dynamics

• Four-Papers per session– 20 min. per paper presentation– 2.5 min discussion/questions

• Speakers should:– Contact their session chair

• (see program “at a Glance”)

• All sessions are synchronized

• 3 poster sessions: about 35 posters per daily session• Posters will be displayed in Atlas Peak and Castle Peak• Time 9AM-5:00PM: Visit during all breaks

• Best Poster Award (crowd sourcing)– 5 $20 bills (fake money)– Each poster will be assigned a “tip-jar” – The five posters with the most “tips” will be considered for the best

poster award – Poster committee decides the best poster – Award presented during the closing ceremony (17:30)

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Best Poster

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What’s New This Year

• Game Room [Diamond Mtn]• Industry Day [Wednesday]• Panel discussions [Tuesday]• Crowd-sourcing the Best-Poster• Two-tier review system• Town Hall meeting [Wednesday]

• Solicit applications to host CIKM 2011,2012• Areas for improvement• Open mic to air opinions

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Networking at CIKM 2008

• Notice board by the Registration Desk• Bird-of-feather• Yoga in central courtyard• Flickr: tag as CIKM2008

• Blog volunteers?

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Wireless Tips

• Wi-Fi available on the conference area– ssid: cikm08– user: cikm08– password: platform_a– Not unlimited bandwidth, shared

by all• See page 31 of program

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Opening Reception

Live Flamenco MusicToday, 6-9PM

Poolside Courtyard

Sponsored by

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Banquet

• Halloween theme• Be sure to wear a costume

– Target, Costume Shop...

• Tuesday, 5:45-10:30• Buses will start leaving the

Marriott at 5:30 PM and will run continously until 6:30

• There is a wonderful museum at Copia

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Closing Reception

Sponsored by CIKM 2008

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Hotel Concierge

They will help you find events that suit you

Culinary School Wine Tasting Dining Hot Springs Spas Outlet Malls Hiking Biking GolfTennis Hot Air Ballooning Water Sports (sailing, wake-boarding)

Please Put Your

Blackberry

Cell Phone

Computer

In Silent Mode

Thank You!!!

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Town Hall Meeting

CIKM 2008

Future CIKMs • 2009 (Beijing)• 2010 (Toronto)• Solicit applications to host CIKM 2011 (Europe/Australia)

• What worked well• Areas for improvement

• Separate poster submission track?• Open mike to air opinions

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Industry Day (Wednesday)

The Mountains or The Street Lamp: Search, Research, and Research AgainChristopher J. C. Burges (Microsoft Research, USA)Crowdsourcing for Relevance EvaluationDaniel E. Rose (A9.com, USA)Hadoop: Industrial-Strength Open Source for Data-Intensive SupercomputingDoug Cutting ( Yahoo!, USA)Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development ToolPeter Norvig (Google, USA)The Evolving Computational Advertising LandscapeAndrei Z. Broder (Yahoo! Research, USA)Toward Next Generation Search: Business, Product, Science, Infrastructure, and TalentWilliam I. Chang (Baidu.com, China)Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web: Listen to Your Customers….Ronny Kohavi (Microsoft, USA)The Secret History of Silicon ValleySteven Gary Blank (Stanford University and University of California Berkeley)

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Thursday Workshops

ONISW 2008 Second International Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web

PaIR 2008 Patent Information Retrieval

PIKM 2008 PhD Workshop

SSM 2008 Search in Social Media

WICOW 2008 Second Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web

WDM 2008 Tenth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management

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Thursday Workshops

BooksOnLine 2008 Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories

DOLAP 2008 ACM Eleventh International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP DTMBIO 2008 ACM Second International Workshop on Data and Text

Mining in Bioinformatics GIR 2008 Fifth Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval INEWS 2008 Improving Non English Web Searching

LSDS-IR 2008 Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval

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CIKM 2009

Beijing, ChinaOct. 27-31, 2009

General Chairs:Il-Yeol Song, Drexel Univ. USAWei Li, Beihang Univ., China DB Chair: Xiaohua Hu, Drexel Univ. USAIR Chair: Jimmy Lin, Univ. of Maryland, USAKM Chair: Wesley Chu, UCLA, USA

CIKM 2010, Toronto

Jimmy Huang (G

eneral Chair)

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Getting Around Napa

• http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=118102161914799827039.0004596375f7c6e5e9065&ll=38.320784,-122.307336&spn=0.010134,0.022895&t=h&z=16

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Getting Around Napa

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“To be successful you need to have the nerve of a bullfighter, the energy of a night club owner, and the concentration of a Buddhist monk.”

- Jack Lemon

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“To make a vintage conference like CIKM 2008, you need to have a vision, you need to have a team, and you need to manage both.”

- Jimi Shanahan

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Wine Nomenclature

Approachable

DrySweet

Fruity

Provocative

Harsh

Full-bodiedComplex

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Informed and

informative

Entertaining

Bridging

Collaborative

Educational

Avant-garde

New World

High-energ

y

CIKM

2008

CIKM

2008

CIKM

2008

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Closing Ceremony

Best Poster

Thank you

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Poster Contest

• Posters will be displayed in Room X• Time: During all breaks

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Getting Around Napa

Google Earth