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author Florian Schoppmann <Florian.Schoppmann@emc.com> Fri Oct 05 11:52:30 2012 -0700
committer Florian Schoppmann <Florian.Schoppmann@emc.com> Fri Oct 05 11:52:30 2012 -0700
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Added note about VLDB'12 talk. Removed oldest news item.

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             academic research, and open-source development.
           </p>
           <h2>News</h2>
+          <p><b>August 29th 2012:</b>
+          <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~chrisre/">Chris R&eacute;</a>, <a href="http://www.florian-schoppmann.net">Florian Schoppmann</a>, and Caleb Welton present the paper <em><a href="http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1700_joehellerstein_vldb2012.pdf">The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL</a></em> at the <a href="http://www.vldb2012.org">38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases</a> (VLDB 2012) in Istanbul, Turkey. <a href="http://sacan.biomed.drexel.edu/vldb2012/program/?volno=vol5no12&pid=935&downloadslides=1">Slides from the talk are available here.</a>
+          </p>
           <p><b>July 11th 2012:</b>
           <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~xfeng/">Xixuan (Aaron) Feng</a> presents <a href="http://madlib.net/pubs/madlib-poster-mmds-2012.pdf">a poster about MADlib</a> at the <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/mmds/">Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets</a> (MMDS 2012) at Stanford.
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           Gavin Yang talks about MADlib <a href="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgconfchina2012">at the PostgreSQL Conference China 2012</a> (in Chinese). Some pictures are available <a href="http://blog.163.com/digoal@126/blog/static/163877040201251710524904">in the organizer's blog</a>.
           </p>
           <p><b>May 22nd 2012:</b>
-          Our <a href="http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2012/EECS-2012-38.html">technical report</a> of MADlib's architecture and design patterns (see below) has been <a href="http://www.vldb2012.org/general-information/accepted-papers-for-industrial-track/">accepted to the industrial track of VLDB 2012</a>. Meet us in person in Istanbul!
+          Our <a href="http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2012/EECS-2012-38.html">technical report</a> about MADlib's architecture and design patterns has been <a href="http://www.vldb2012.org/general-information/accepted-papers-for-industrial-track/">accepted to the industrial track of VLDB 2012</a>. Meet us in person in Istanbul!
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           <p><b>May 17th 2012:</b>
           Hitoshi Harada talks about MADlib <a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2012/schedule/events/404.en.html">at the PostgreSQL Conference</a>.
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           <p><b>Apr 6th 2012:</b>
           <a href="http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/jmh/">Joe Hellerstein</a> writes about MADlib <a href="http://wp.sigmod.org/?page_id=344">for the ACM SIGMOD blog</a>.
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-          <p><b>Apr 3rd 2012:</b>
-          A <a href="http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2012/EECS-2012-38.html">technical report</a> outlining MADlib's architecture and design patterns is now available. It provides a description of various statistical methods and includes performance and speedup results of a core building block. Furthermore, the paper reports on two initial efforts at incorporating academic research into MADlib.
-          </p>
           <h2>History</h2>
           <p>MADlib grew out of discussions between database-engine developers, data
             scientists, IT architects and academics, who were interested in new