| Date | Speaker | Talk | Comments |
| Sept 6 | Opher Etzion | Active Technologies for Complex Event Processing (slides and paper) |
Special Time and Place: Monday 1-2pm, Rm 3530 |
| Sept 15 | HweeHwa Pang | Data Security Issues in Data Publishing (followed by a career talk) |
Special Time and Place: Wednesday 1-3pm, Room 2404 (Lift 17-18) |
| Nov 5 | Gang Wang | Conditional Mutual Information MaxiMin in Text Categorization | CIKM practice talk |
| Nov 10 | Wei Wang | Stabbing the Sky: Efficient Skyline Computation over Sliding Windows | Special Time and Place: Wednesday 11-12, Room 3530 |
| Nov 19 | Kaiyang Liu | AC-Tree: An Adaptive Structural Join Index | WISE practice talk |