Natalie Gruska, supervised by Pat Martin in the Database Systems Lab, won the Best Student Paper award at CASCON with her paper entitled “Integrating MapReduce and RDBMs”.
Xianrong Zhang’s poster, “Fair Bargaining in One-to-One Web Services Negotiation”, co-authored by Pat Martin, Kathryn Brohman (from the Queen’s School of Business) and Wendy Powley won the Technology Showcase People’s Choice Award.
Pat’s group had a tremendous showing at CASCON this year with 7 posters, 3 papers, a Vintage Demo (to celebrate 20 years of CASCON), as well as 2 workshop presentations.
Pat Martin was a panelist on the Twenty Years of Impact Panel which examined the impact that the IBM Center of Advanced Studies has had on innovation, research, business and people.