Thursday September 1: 10 Year Best Paper Award, Sessions, Demos and Tutorials

Some photos to illustrate Thursday's activities at the Royal Garden hotel.

Click on the photos to see bigger versions. All photos: Heri Ramampiaro and Roger Midtstraum.

David Konopnicki and Oded Shmueli received the VLDB 2005 10 Year Best Paper Award.

Oded Shmueli

Martin Kersten, David Konopnicki and Oded Shmueli.

A question from Paolo Atzeni.

David Konopnicki

Demonstrations.

Demonstrations.

Roger Midtstraum at work.

Heri Ramampiaro.

Knut Magne Risvik at the Google reception.

Good mood at the Google reception.

Kjetil Nørvåg, Sven Zimer and Anders Christensen.

Kjetil Nørvåg (far right) with friends from Greece.

VLDB 2005 flag outside the Royal Garden hotel.