I will be a keynote speaker at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011. I will address the question: What Principles of Distributed Data Management in 2020?.

1 June 2011. Interview by Xavier de La Porte on France Culture (in french) on Cloud Computing. Listen here

6 May 2011. Podcast on cloud computing (in french): Interview on Interstices

Just in time for the release of our book Principles of Distributed Database Systems, Tamer Özsu and I ran a panel on Distributed Data Management in 2020 at the 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Hannover, Germany, April 11-16, 2011.

The Zenith INRIA team (Montpellier) was formally created in january 2011.

The Atlas INRIA project-team which I started in january 2004 in Nantes was formally ended in dec. 2010.

In september 2009, I moved from LINA, Nantes to LIRMM, Montpellier.

I was the general chair of VLDB 2009, Lyon, France, August 24-28 2009, which had a record number of 730 participants (44 nationalities).