Peter Pischer, who chaired the "gong show" in DEBS 2012 was looking for volunteers to give a "gong show" talk. The gong show idea, borrowed from other conferences, and added to DEBS last year, is a forum to present futuristic, compelling ideas (which not need to have scientific proof). As Peter approached me in the break to see whether I would like to present, I thought about a past discussion I had with Rainer von Ammon about the singularity idea, and devised a quick presentation on a topic I don't understand anything about... I have uploaded the presentation to slideshare -- enjoy!
For everybody intending to participate in DEBS'11, I would like to attract your attention to a new track in DEBS - the gong show track, which is planned for Tuesday, July 12, after the reception, starting 5:15pm
Each speaker will have (strictly enforced by the gong) 5 minutes to talk about one of the following:
(1). Revolutionary idea to extend the state-of-the-art of event-based systems.
(2). Revolutionary use of event-based systems in the real-world.
There are limited amount of speaking slots and they will be determined on "first come first served" basis;
the audience will vote about the best idea, and the winner will be formally announced at the conference banquet on the next day.
If you are interested to present, please send Email to: debs2011@easychair.org with the title "gong show", your name, and optionally the title of your talk.
See you all in Yorktown in July.
DEBS 2011 will take place in the Yorktown Heights auditorium, the same site in which the famous recording to the Jeopardy! programs in which the computer has won against two human champions. The Watson hardware resides very close to this auditorium. With some effort we succeeded to bring Eddie Epstein, one of the senior persons behind Watson has agreed to be an invited speaker in DEBS 2011, Eddie will also provide a demo of the system.
The full program of DEBS 2011 will be advertised around this weekend, the list of accepted papers can be found on this Blog.
It should be note that if you plan to be in DEBS -- plan to stay for the entire conference, besides the 33 presentations, the attractions will be spread among the days - no day can be skipped!
Monday, July 11 will be the tutorial day, and in the late afternoon there will be the EPTS award granting event.
Tuesday, July 12 will have the two industrial keynote speakers: Chris Bird and Don Ferguson (see here for more about the keynote speakers), and in the later afternoon a reception, and after getting some alcohol, the "gong show", in which the participants can express outrageous ideas about future features and utilization of event processing technology.
Wednesday, July 13 will have the keynote talk of Johnnes Gehrke, the demo and poster session including the grand challenge, and the conference banquet with artistic performance, and the DEBS awards (best paper, best idea in the gong show, best demo and maybe more).
Thursday, July 14 will have the keynote talk of Calton Pu, and the invited talk of Eddie Epstein on Watson.
None of these day should be missed -- plan accordingly!
The fifth day - July 15 will be the PhD workshop adjacent to the conference.
See you all in Yorktown.
