Indiana Center for Database Systems (ICDS)

The Indiana Center for Database Systems (ICDS) at Purdue University is a leading database research center conducting research in a variety of topics including multimedia databases, data mining, data streaming and sensors, database security and privacy, knowledge bases, web services, data integration, data uncertainty, bioinformatics, and medical informatics. In addition to conducting fundamental research, ICDS strives to move research towards practice through projects in digital government, healthcare, telemedicine, and telemaintenance. Research conducted in ICDS has resulted in a steady publication trend in top conferences and journals. ICDS is supported by a large and diverse funding base from state and federal government agencies and the industry.