PC Chairs of previous PODS Conferences
PODS Organization
PODS is run by the Executive Committee, which consists of the current and past two General Chairs and the current and past two Program Committee Chairs. The Executive Committee appoints the Program Committee Chair (two years in advance) and the General Chair. It also chooses the invited keynote speaker for the following conference. The General Chair is appointed for two years.
Currently, the PODS Executive Committee consists of Jan Paredaens (Chair), Georg Gottlob, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Maurizio Lenzerini, Leonid Libkin, and Jianwen Su.
| YEAR |
DATES, PLACE |
GENERAL CHAIR |
PROGRAM CHAIR |
| 1982 | Los Angeles, CA,March 29-31 | J.D. Ullman | A.V. Aho |
| 1983 | Atlanta, GA, March 21-23 | R. Fagin | P. A. Bernstein |
| 1984 | Waterloo, Canada, April 2-4 | D. J. Rosenkrantz | R. Fagin |
| 1985 | Portland, OR, March 25-27 | S. Ginsburg | J.D. Ullman |
| 1986 | Cambridge, MA, March 24-26 | A.K. Chandra | A. Silberschatz |
| 1987 | San Diego, CA, March 23-25 | A.K. Chandra | M.Y. Vardi |
| 1988 | Austin, TX, March 21-23 | A. Silberschatz | M. Yannakakis |
| 1989 | Philadelphia. PA, March 29-31 | A. Silberschatz | A.K. Chandra |
| 1990 | Nashville, TN, April 2-4 | D. J. Rosenkrantz | Y. Sagiv |
| 1991 | Denver, CO, May 29-31 | D. J. Rosenkrantz | A. Mendelzon |
| 1992 | San Diego, CA | M. Y. Vardi | P.C. Kanellakis |
| 1993 | Washington, DC, May 25-28 | M.Y. Vardi | C. Beeri |
| 1994 | Minneapolis, MN, May 24-26 | M. Yannakakis | V. Vianu |
| 1995 | San Jose, CA, May 22-25 | M. Yannakakis | S. Abiteboul |
| 1996 | Montreal, Canada, June 3-5 | P.C. Kanellakis
(M. Yannakakis, acting) |
R. Hull |
| 1997 | Tucson, AZ, May 12-14 | A. Mendelzon | Z. M. Ozsoyoglu |
| 1998 | Seattle, WA, June 1-3 | A. Mendelzon | J. Paredaens |
| 1999 | Philadelphia, PA, May 31-June 2 | V. Vianu | C. Papadimitriou |
| 2000 | Dallas, TX, May 14-16 | V. Vianu | G. Gottlob |
| 2001 | Santa Barbara, CA, May 21-23 | S. Abiteboul | P. Buneman |
| 2002 | Madison, WI, June 2-4 | S. Abiteboul | P. G. Kolaitis |
| 2003 | San Diego, CA, June 9-12 | C. Beeri | T. Milo |
| 2004 | Paris, France, June 14-16 | C. Beeri | D. Suciu |
| 2005 | Baltimore, MA, June 13-15 | G. Gottlob | F. Afrati |
| 2006 | Chicago, IL, June 26-29 | G. Gottlob | J. Van den Bussche |
| 2007 | Beijing, China, June 11-13 | P. Kolaitis | L. Libkin |
| 2008 | Vancouver, Canada, June 9-11 | P. Kolaitis | M. Lenzerini |
Program
Committees
1982
Alfred V. Aho
(chair)
C. Yu
D. J. McCleod
Daniel J. Rosenkrantz
David
P. Dobkin
Peter Selinger
Philip A. Bernstein
Ronald
Fagin
1983
Philip
A. Bernstein (chair)
A. K. Chandra
Catriel Beeri
Daniel
J. Rosenkrantz
J. M. Smith
Jack Minker
Kenneth
C. Sevcik
M. Yannakakis
1984
Ronald Fagin (chair)
Christos
H. Papadimitriou
David Maier
Jim Gray
Kenneth
C. Sevcik
Moshe Y. Vardi
Nathan Goodman
Raymond
Reiter
1985
Jeffrey D. Ullman
(chair)
Abraham Silberschatz
Frank Manola
H. Wong
Jim
Gray
Moshe Y. Vardi
Peter J. Weinberger
Richard
Hull
Steven Parker
1986
Abraham Silberschatz
(chair)
Alberto O. Mendelzon
Christos H. Papadimitriou
Edward
Sciore
F. Bancilhon
Hector Garcia-Molina
Jim Gray
Moshe
Y. Vardi
Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
1987
Moshe Y. Vardi (chair)
Henry
F. Korth
Kari-Jouko Räihä
M. Yannakakis
Paris
C. Kanellakis
Per-Åke Larson
Tomasz Imielinski
Umeshwar
Dayal
Yehoshua Sagiv
1988
M. Yannakakis (chair)
Alberto
O. Mendelzon
Dale Skeen
David Maier
Krzysztof R. Apt
Paris
C. Kanellakis
Philip A. Bernstein
Serge Abiteboul
Victor
Vianu
1989
A. K. Chandra
(chair)
Carlo Zaniolo
Catriel Beeri
Daniel
J. Rosenkrantz
Hector Garcia-Molina
Michael Kifer
Oded
Shmueli
Teodor C. Przymusinski
Victor Vianu
William
E. Weihl
1990
Yehoshua Sagiv
(chair)
Allen Van Gelder
C. Mohan
Doron Rotem
Michael
Kifer
Paris C. Kanellakis
Richard Hull
Shamim
A. Naqvi
Vassos Hadzilacos
Yannis E. Ioannidis
1991
Alberto O. Mendelzon
(chair)
Amr El Abbadi
Christos Faloutsos
David Maier
Henry
F. Korth
Jean-Louis Lassez
Jeffrey D. Ullman
Phokion
G. Kolaitis
Ramya Ramakrishnan
Serge Abiteboul
1992
Paris C. Kanellakis
(chair)
Foto N. Afrati
Gabriel M. Kuper
Hanan Samet
Jeff
Naughton
Nicole Bidoit
Rakesh Agrawal
S. Ginsburg
Tomasz
Imielinski
Vassos Hadzilacos
William E. Weihl
1993
Catriel Beeri (chair)
Allen
Van Gelder
Edward P. F. Chan
Gerhard Weikum
Jan
Paredaens
Miron Livny
Ouri Wolfson
Stavros
S. Cosmadakis
Stéphane Grumbach
Walter
A. Burkhard
Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
1994
Victor Vianu (chair)
Dennis
Shasha
Dirk Van Gucht
Georg Gottlob
Jianwen Su
Moshe
Y. Vardi
Nicole Bidoit
Peter Buneman
Raghu
Ramakrishnan
Richard Hull
Vassos Hadzilacos
1995
Serge Abiteboul
(chair)
Alberto O. Mendelzon
Amr El Abbadi
Catriel
Beeri
Christos Faloutsos
Jan Chomicki
Jennifer Widom
Jeff
Naughton
Neil Immerman
Paolo Atzeni
Val Tannen
1996
Richard Hull (chair)
Allen
Van Gelder
Christos Faloutsos
Divyakant Agrawal
Gabriel
M. Kuper
Guozhu Dong
Heikki Mannila
Rakesh Agrawal
Tova
Milo
Yannis E. Ioannidis
Yehoshua Sagiv
1997
Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
(chair)
David B. Lomet
Jan Van den Bussche
Jeffrey Scott
Vitter
Leonid Libkin
Peter Z. Revesz
Phokion
G. Kolaitis
Raymond Ng
Tova Milo
V. S. Subrahmanian
Victor
Vianu
1998
Jan Paredaens
(chair)
Christos Faloutsos
Dan Suciu
Georg Gottlob
Gerhard
Weikum
Heikki Mannila
Ken Ross
Laks
V. S. Lakshmanan
Leonid Libkin
Moshe Y. Vardi
Rajeev
Motwani
1999
Christos
H. Papadimitriou (chair)
A. Levy
Alberto O. Mendelzon
Catriel
Beeri
Gösta Grahne
Heikki Mannila
Jeffrey
D. Ullman
Joseph
Hellerstein
Limsoon Wong
M. Yannakakis
Prabhakar Raghavan
Serge
Abiteboul
Sophie Cluet
Udi Manber
Yannis E. Ioannidis
2000
Georg Gottlob
(chair)
Domenico Saccà
Georg Lausen
Hans-Jörg
Schek
Jan Van den Bussche
Jeffrey D. Ullman
Leonid
Libkin
Maurizio Lenzerini
Moshe Y. Vardi
Richard
Hull
Serge Abiteboul
Stuart Davidson
Thomas Eiter
Tova
Milo
Yuri Breitbart
Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
2001
Peter Buneman (chair)
Amr El
Abbadi
Foto N. Afrati
Frank Neven
Guillermo
Alonso
Gösta Grahne
Heikki Mannila
Jianwen
Su
Jennifer Widom
Luc Segoufin
Luca Cardelli
Manoj
Franklin
Neil Immerman
Paolo Atzeni
Phokion
G. Kolaitis
Rajeev Motwani
Richard Hull
2002
Phokion G. Kolaitis
(chair)
Catriel Beeri
D. Gunopoulos
Dan Suciu
Giuseppe De
Giacomo
Jeffrey D. Ullman
Jeff Naughton
Ken Ross
Leonid
Libkin
Nicole Bidoit
Ronald Fagin
Stéphane
Grumbach
Surajit Chaudhuri
Thomas Eiter
Thomas
Schwentick
Walid G. Aref
2003
Tova Milo (chair)
Dan
Suciu
Diego Calvanese
Foto N. Afrati
Gerhard Weikum
Jan
Van den Bussche
M. Yannakakis
Marie-Christine Rousset
Michael
Benedikt
Nick Koudas
Rajeev Motwani
Richard Hull
Surajit
Chaudhuri
Timos K. Sellis
R. Rastogi
Victor
Vianu
2004
Dan Suciu
(chair)
Christos Faloutsos
Divyakant Agrawal
Frank
Neven
Gottfried Vossen
Jennifer Widom
Johannes Gehrke
Jeff
Naughton
Ken Ross
Luc Segoufin
Lucian Popa
Martin
Grohe
Michael Benedikt
Moshe
Y. Vardi
S. Muthukrishnan
Sanjeev Khanna
Thomas
Eiter
Wenfei Fan
Yannis E. Ioannidis
Yossi Matias
Z. Meral
Özsoyoglu
2005
Foto
N. Afrati (chair)
Chen Li
Christoph Koch
Diego
Calvanese
Dimitrios Gunopulos
Divesh Srivastava
Frank
Neven
Heikki Mannila
Jianwen Su
Jan Chomicki
Jeffrey
D. Ullman
Luc Segoufin
Marie-Christine Rousset
Michel de
Rougemont
Mihalis Yannakakis
Minos Garofalakis
Piotr
Indyk
Prabhakar Raghavan
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Timos
Sellis
Val Tannen
Yannis Papakonstantinou
2006
Jan Van den Bussche (chair)
Pankaj K. Agarwal
Marcelo Arenas
Mike Atallah
Leo Bertossi
Gautam Das
Alin Deutsch
Alan Fekete
Samir Khuller
Michael Kifer
Nicola Leone
Mark Levene
Maarten Marx
Gerome Miklau
Chung Keung Poon
Yehoshua Sagiv
Michael Schwartzbach
Nicole Schweikardt
Wang-Chiew Tan
David Toman
Dirk Van Gucht
Limsoon Wong
Carlo Zaniolo
2007
Leonid Libkin (chair)
Martin Abadi
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Jose Balcazar
Yuri Breitbart
Rada Chirkova
Sara Cohen
Mariano Consens
Wenfei Fan
Martin Grohe
Sudipto Guha
Christoph Koch
Maurizio Lenzerini
Alan Nash
Jan Paredaens
Lucian Popa
Francesco Scarcello
Luc Segoufin
Peter Widmayer
Peter Wood
Limsoon Wong
Mihalis Yannakakis
2008
Maurizio Lenzerini (chair)
Serge Abiteboul
Foto Afrati
Divyakant Agrawal
Marcelo Arenas
Jan Chomicki
Graham Cormode
Alin Deutsch
Minos N. Garofalakis
Giorgio Ghelli
Martin Grohe
Sudipto Guha
Carsten Lutz
Maarten Marx
Anca Muscholl
Rajeev Rastogi
Riccardo Rosati
Thomas Schwentick
Jianwen Su
Dan Suciu
Val Tannen
T.S. Jayram
Yannis Theodoridis
A total of 175 people served on PODS PCs. Most people did it once (101) or twice (31). Some served more often:
| 8 times | : | Moshe Y. Vardi. |
| 7 times | : | Richard Hull, M. Yannakakis. |
| 6 times | : | Catriel Beeri, Jeffrey D. Ullman. |
| 5 times | : | Alberto O. Mendelzon, Christos Faloutsos, Heikki Mannila, Serge Abiteboul, Victor Vianu, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu, Leonid Libkin. |
| 4 times | : | Dan Suciu, Foto N. Afrati, Jeff Naughton, Paris C. Kanellakis, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Tova Milo, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Jan Van den Bussche, Luc Segoufin, Yehoshua Sagiv. |
| 3 times | : | Allen Van Gelder, Amr El Abbadi, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, David Maier, Frank Neven, Georg Gottlob, Gerhard Weikum, Jennifer Widom, Jianwen Su, Jim Gray, Ken Ross, Nicole Bidoit, Philip A. Bernstein, Rajeev Motwani, Ronald Fagin, Thomas Eiter, Vassos Hadzilacos, Jan Paredaens, Michael Kifer, Limsoon Wong. |
On average, someone who ever served on a PODS PC, served on 1.91 committees.
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