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    <title>In the Spotlight at Data Services World.com</title>
    <description>News, articles and podcasts about data services, data access, databases and software. </description>
    <link> http://www.DataServicesWorld.com</link>
    <copyright>Copyright 2008-9 Ken North Computing, LLC</copyright>
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<title>Podcasts and Videos from DataServices World in Silicon Valley</title>
<description>Videos and podcasts of presentations and the DataServices World workshop are available for playback in a variety of media formats, including Adobe Flash Video, Windows Media Video, Quicktime, MP4 and MP3. At DataServices World in San Jose, California, presenters included Ken North, Susan Malaika, Dr. Michael Carey, Parand Darugar, Jeff Vroom and Geoff Brown. Peter Coffee moderated the Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop that featured instructors Dr. Stefanos Damianakis of Netrics, Dr. Carlo Innocenti of DataDirect Technologies and Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters Clear Forest.  </description>
<link>http://www.dataservicesworld.com/events/DSWorld2008/DataServicesWorld_SanJose.htm</link>
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<title>Distinguished Faculty to Present at DataServices World Fall 2008 </title>
<description>The program for DataServices World Fall 2008 has been announced with instruction by a world-class faculty. Dr. Michael Carey, one of the top 50 most influential computer scientists, joins a speaker lineup that includes experts from IBM, Yahoo!, Adobe, m2mi and DataDirect Technologies. The conference runs November 20, 2008 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. It is co-located with SOAWorld, Cloud Computing Expo and Virtualization Conference.  </description>
<link>http://www.dataservicesworld.com/events/DSWorld2008/Fallprogram.htm</link>
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<title>Call for Speakers for DataServices World Closes</title>
<description>The call for speakers for DataServices World Fall 2008 closed on September 28. The conference runs November 20, 2008 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. It is co-located with Cloud Computing Expo and Conference, SOAWorld and Virtualization Conference. The distinguished faculty for the San Jose conference includes Dr. Michael Carey, ACM Fellow and professor at UC Irvine School of Information and Computer Sciences.   </description>
<link>http://www.dataservicesworld.com/events/DSWorld2008/CFS_Fall2008.htm</link>
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      <title>Video and Podcasts: Presentations from DataServices World Spring 2008</title>
      <description>Video and podcasts of DataServices World presentations are accessible from the Web.  DataServices World Spring 2008 ran during the SOAWorld conference in New York City. The conference program included workshops, a power panel discussion and technical sessions. Presentation slides, podcasts and video are available for MP3 players, Quicktim, Adobe Flash and Windows Media Players. </description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/index.htm</link>
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      <title>Dr. Stefanos Damianakis on Mathematical Modeling for Data Access</title>
      <description>Netrics CEO Dr. Stefanos Damianakis presented a session titled "Mathematical Innovations for Heterogeneous Data Access" at the DataServices World conference in New York City. The presentation slides are available.</description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/People/SDamianakis.htm</link>
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      <title>John Goodson Delivers Keynote at DataServices World</title>
      <description>John Goodson of DataDirect Technologies delivered a keynote address titled "Frontiers in Data Access: The Next Wave of Data Services" at the DataServices World conference. The slides from John's presentation are available at DataServicesWorld.com. </description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/People/JGoodson.htm</link>
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      <title>Dr. Michael Carey Explains SOA and Data Services Modeling</title>
      <description>Dr. Michael Carey of UC Irvine, formerly of Oracle BEA, spoke about modeling to a standing-room only audience at DataServices World 2008. The slides from his presentation, "Data Services Modeling: Data Modeling in the SOA Age", are available at DataServicesWorld.com.</description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/People/MCarey.htm</link>
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      <title>IBM Distinguished Engineer Bill O'Connell Discusses Database Architecture for SOA, BI, Data Warehouses </title>
      <description> Dr. Bill O'Connell, CTO for Business Intelligence for IBM Information Management, delivered a DataServices World presentation on June 24, 2008. Bookmark this page for video and slides from "Database Architecture for SOA, BI and Data Warehousing". </description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/People/BOConnell.htm</link>
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      <title>Microsoft's Mike Pizzo Presents LINQ, ADO.NET Data Services and Entity Framework</title>
      <description>Michael Pizzo, Principal Architect at Microsoft, explored the next generation of Microsoft data programmability technology at DataServices World 2008. Bookmark this page for slides and video from "LINQ, ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services for the Web". </description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/People/MPizzo.htm</link>
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      <title>Sun Distinguished Engineer Mark Hapner Explores WADL and URIs as Types</title>
      <description>Mark Hapner, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, discussed WADL and URIs as data types at DataServices World 2008 in New York City. Bookmark this page for slides and video from the session "WADL, URIs as Database Types, Tricks of the Architect's Trade". </description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/People/MHapner.htm</link>
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      <title>Workshop at DataServices World Features Dr. Michael Carey, Michael Gorman, Dr. Carlo Innocenti and Michael Pizzo</title>
      <description>At DataServices World 2008, Dr. Michael Carey (Oracle BEA), Michael M. Gorman (Whitemarsh Information Systems), Dr. Carlo Innocenti (DataDirect) and Mike Pizzo (Microsoft) conducted a Data Access and Data Services Workshop. Bookmark this page to view the slides and video ecorded at the workshop. The panel of experts presented a hands-on session focusing on data access and data services issues, problems and solutions. </description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/events/DSWorld2008/workshop.htm</link>
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      <title>Andy Eaton of EnterpriseDB Joins Middleware and Data Services Panel and Webcast from DataServices World</title>
      <description>Ken North moderated a power panel titled "The Importance of Middleware and Data Services" at the DataServices World conference during SOAWorld 2008 in New York City. The panel discussion was sumultaneously webcast by SYS-CON.TV. Andy Eaton, CEO of EnterpriseDB, joined the panel of executives and experts who discussed concepts and issues related to architecture, middleware, databases, data access and data services.</description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/powerpanel.php</link>
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      <title>Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Update Provides ADO.NET Data Services and Entity Framework</title>
      <description>Microsoft is introducing new data access capabilities with Visual Studio 2008 and NET 3.5 SP1. The ADO.NET Entity Framework supports the database development cycle beginning with development of the conceptual model. ADO.NET Data Services enable applications to expose data as a REST-based data service that can be consumed by Web clients within a corporate network and across the Internet. </description>
      <link>http://www.DataServicesWorld.com/read/ado.htm</link>
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