I have updated the close to decade old UCR (University of California, Riverside) thesis/dissertation Latex template to work with 2008 guidelines (these template updates are only the formatting changes I was required to make for acceptance by graduate division).
Read on...As of July 7, 2008, I will be working for Microsoft in Bellevue, Washington. I will be doing data mining stuff - i.e., knowledge discovery on very large datasets. I will be working in the Avanta Building, I think, which is just east of downtown Bellevue. We'll see how this cold weather thing works out...
As of June 6, 2008 I have completed my final defense and I am now officially Dr. Benjamin Arai! After four long years, it is finally over... Actually, it was kind of fun. All the interesting problems kept me adequatly busy. It's a little wierd not having to go to school anymore. Maybe I will get an MBA?
Craig Boucher and I have developed a highly scalable ingestion and online access system for the
METS/ALTO object model with
logical structure. The key to our system is a highly distributed paradigm that utilizes a minimal lock contention approach for maximum system utilization - i.e., you can have users accessing the system while simultaneously ingesting large amounts of data from several independent machines without skipping a beat. Our system is built on C#/Mono and Ruby-on-Rails. Feel free to contact me for a copy of our recent publication submission. You can view the demo of our system at
[Website].
Materialized views are certainly possible in PostgreSQL. Because of PostgreSQL's powerful PL/pgSQL language, and the functional trigger system, materialized views are somewhat easy to implement. I will examine several methods of implementing materialized views in PostgreSQL.
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