Providing Secure Access to Corporate Databases and Documents Conference

The University of Maryland would like to invite you and other members of your organization to participate in a special satellite broadcast seminar titled: Organizing the Internet Services: Providing Secure Access to Corporate Databases and Documents Course Code: MC96022201 Thursday, February 22, 1996 11am-5pm Eastern COURSE DESCRIPTION: The Internet is emerging as a platform where companies can freely advertise their products and services. Currently, companies are not utilizing their databases to support customer requests. The result is accurate, current information that may not be available to customers, thus leading to potential loss of business. The main aim of this one-day course is to enable participants to set up secure, efficient, reliable WWW access to their company's electronic advertising/promotional materials and databases. BENEFITS: * Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: * Create multimedia home pages of company products/services * Provide WWW access to company databases * Construct distributed WWW servers to improve response time and enhance reliability * Maintain security, hiding proprietary company data, while providing limited access to company databases * SPECIAL ADDED BENEFIT: E-mail interaction with the presenter for 45 days after the program INTENDED AUDIENCE: Programmers, technical personnel, database designers/administrators and managers responsible for software development. Individuals developing/marketing products and services using the Internet. PREREQUISITES: A basic knowledge of computer science RECOMMENDED TEXT: Multimedia Database Systems: Issues and Research Directions, eds. S. Jajodia and V.S. Subrahmanian, Springer Verlag, forthcoming, Nov. 1995. This is a recommended, but not required text. PRESENTER: V.S. Subrahmanian, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. in 1989 from Syracuse University. Since then, he has been on the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is currently an associate professor of computer science. He is widely known for his work in integrating multiple databases, data structures and software packages. For this work, he received the prestigious NSF National Young Investigator award in 1993. He is the principal developer of the HERMES "Heterogeneous Reasoning and Mediator System," a platform for software integration. He has worked extensively on multimedia databases and has developed the MACS Media-Abstraction Creation System, the AVIS Advanced Video Information System, and the FIST Face Information System. Prof. Subrahmanian has authored more than 75 papers, and delivered invited addresses at several international conferences. He has edited one book (MIT Press) and another edited volume by him on multimedia databases is scheduled to appear in Nov. 1995 (Springer Verlag).