| Date | Speaker | Talk | Comments |
| Sept 6 | Database Faculty | Meet the Database Faculty | Excellent opportunity for students to check out faculty members' on-going research |
| Sept 20 | Baihua Zheng | Indexing Structures for Location-Dependent Query in Wireless Broadcast Environments | |
| Oct 4 | Haifeng Jiang | XR-Tree: Indexing XML Data for Efficient Structural Join | Paper to appear at ICDE 2003 |
| Oct 18 | Wenwu Lou | Efficient Prediction of Web Accesses on a Proxy Server | Paper to appear at CIKM 2002 |
| Oct 24 Thursday | X. Sean Wang | Continuous Queries and the Streaming Time Series Case (Powerpoint slides) | Time: 11-12; Room: 3464. |
| Nov 1 | Byron Choi | XML Vectorization | |
| Nov 15 | Haibo Hu | Adaptive Power-Aware Prefetching Schemes for Mobile Broadcast Environments | Paper to appear at MDM 2003 |
| Nov 29 | Jimeng Sun | Analysis of Predictive Spatio-Temporal Queries | |
| Dec 6 | Jiying Wang | Data-rich Section Extraction from HTML pages | Paper to appear at WISE 2003 |