News Archive

NEWS »Guest Lecture by Sanjay Madria

Published from 23. nov 2007 to 30. nov 2007

Thursday 23rd of November 2007, Associate Professor Sanjay Madria from University of Missouri-Rolla (USA) visited out department. Madria held a guest lecture about Dynamic Data Replication Schemes for Mobile Ad-hoc Network Based on Aperiodic Updates.

Photo of Sanjay Madria and Kjetil Nørvåg.

NEWS »New PhD Student

Published from 24. okt 2007 to 31. okt 2007

Jianqiang Ma was enrolled as a Ph.D student at the Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU in October 2007. He got the master’s degree at Beijing University of Technology, China, majored in Computer Software and Theory. His research interests are information security, database technology and software engineering.

His will work on the Preservation of Trust and Security topic in the Longrec project. He will use evidential value of a record used as an index for the degree of trust, and try to develop methods as far as possible to preserve evidential value over time.

NEWS »New PhD Student

Published from 12. sep 2007 to 19. sep 2007

Nattiya Kanhabua was enrolled as a PhD student at the Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU in the beginning of September 2007. Before she came to Trondheim, she got an internship at the department of Information and Telecommunication Technology, University of Trento, Italy for 10 months. She did her Master Degree in Computer Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. She obtained Bachelor of Engineering, Major in Computer Engineering, from Kasetsart University, Thailand. Her research interest is semantic web technology, Intelligence Web-Services and other relevant subjects.

She will work in the LongRec project on the topic search and semantic where her research will focus on the accessibility of information such as search and retrieval. Moreover, to maintain context, semantics and presentation information in machine-understandable form are also a part of her research.

NEWS »Christian S. Jensen held guest lectures

Published from 10. sep 2007 to 30. sep 2007

Tuesday 4th of September 2007, professor Christian S. Jensen visited our department and held two interesting guest lectures: Streamspin: Enabling Mobile 2.0 and Concepts in the Indexing of Moving Objects.

The Streamspin slides.

NEWS »New PhD Student

Published from 10. sep 2007 to 17. sep 2007

Feng Luan was enrolled as a PhD student at the Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU on September 2007. He got his bachelor degree at Northwest University, China and master degree at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research interests are database technologies, distributed computing and semantic web technologies.

His Research project is Records Transitions Survival in the LongRec Project. He is going to design an independent format and some maintenance procedures to make records survival in a very long term, even after the hardware and software used to create the records are obsolete.

NEWS »Fully funded PhD Research position in P2P/Grid databases

Published from 01. jul 2007 to 25. jul 2007

A fully funded PhD research fellowship is offered in the DASCOSA project. See http://research.idi.ntnu.no/dascosa/phd.html for more details.

NEWS »Vacant Positions

Published from 18. jun 2007 to 01. aug 2007

There are 2 PhD positions and 1 Research Scientist position as part of the FAST-led centre on Information Access Disruptions (iAd Project) currently announced.

In the database group Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd and Svein Erik Bratsberg participates in the iAd project.

NEWS »4 PhD fully funded research fellowships

Published from 01. feb 2007 to 15. feb 2007

4 PhD fully funded research fellowships are offered in the LongRec
project. See the full announcement for more information and application procedure.

NEWS »Vacant Positions

Published from 18. des 2006 to 31. des 2006

Currently the Database Group is looking for new PhD Research Fellows.

Check the department's website to view the vacant positions.

NEWS »PhD Dissertation Hien Nam Le

Published from 10. nov 2006 to 23. nov 2006

The 10th of November,Hien Nam Le completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. 14th of November he was awarded the PhD degree by the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering.

He defended his Ph.D. thesis:
A Transaction Processing System for Supporting Mobile Collaborative Works (pdf)

Photos from the dissertation.

NEWS »New Professor

Published from 19. okt 2006 to 26. okt 2006

We congratulate Kjetil Nørvåg with the professor title.

NEWS »The database group partner in center for outstanding research

Published from 19. jun 2006 to 26. aug 2006

The database group takes part in one the 14 centres for outstanding research
(SFI) announced by the Norwegian research council on 16. June 2006.
The centre is hosted by FAST Search & Transfer. The focus of the activity at NTNU is on schema agnostic indexing services, where we will try to combine the best parts of search engines and database systems.
Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd and Svein Erik Bratsberg from the database group take part in this activity. The grant is for 8 years, but with an evalution after 4 years.

NEWS »The new DB-Group web pages

Published from 18. mar 2006 to 18. mar 2006

The new database website is finally going online!

If you feel that something is missing, or have a suggestion for improving the website; please send an email to kaitorge@idi.ntnu.no