SIGMOD Record 29(3): 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).