You are cordially invited to the Spring '08 North East DB/IR Day
workshop, which will take place on Friday, April 18, 2008 at Columbia
University, in New York City. The website for the workshop, at
http://dbirday.cs.columbia.edu/spring08/, includes the program,
registration form (registration is free), and student poster
submission form for the workshop.

The North East DB/IR Day brings together database and information
retrieval researchers --including students-- from both academic and
industrial research institutions in the Northeastern United States.
The DB/IR Day is a semi-annual workshop that features an exciting
technical program as well as informal discussion. The program for this
edition will include:

    * Three keynote lectures, by Susan Davidson (University of
      Pennsylvania), Mor Naaman (Yahoo! Advanced Development Research,
      Berkeley), and Jeff Naughton (University of Wisconsin, Madison).

    * A student poster session, to promote awareness of current DB/IR
      research at universities in the Northeastern United States.

Please visit the website at http://dbirday.cs.columbia.edu/spring08/
to register and to submit student posters. We hope to see you at
Columbia on April 18!