Organizers

Conference Chair:	James G. Shanahan (Independent Consultant, USA)
DB Area Chair:	Sihem Amer-Yahia (Yahoo! Research, USA)
DB Assistant-Chair:	Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France)
IR Area Chair:	Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
IR Assistant-Chair:	David A. Evans (JustSystems Evans Research, USA)
KM Area Chair:	Alek Kolcz (Microsoft Live Labs)
KM Assistant-Chair:	Key-Sun Choi (Department Head Professor of Computer Science, KAIST, Korea)
Industry Chair:	Abdur Chowdury (Summize.com, USA)
Proceedings Chair:	Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina, USA)
Tutorials Chair:	Neel Sundaresan (eBay Research Labs, USA)
Workshops Chair:	Gregory Grefenstette (CEA LIST, France)
Local Area Chair:	Goutham Kurra (Turn, Inc, USA)
Sponsorship Chair:	Yan Qu (Advertising.com, USA)
PR Chair:	Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Treasurer:	Ryen W. White (Microsoft Research)
Web Master:	Disco Gerdes (Twinnov Web Development)

CIKM 2008 Steering Committee

CIKM 2008 Special Advisory Committee

Mario J. Silva, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Alberto A. F. Laender, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain/Chile
Dongwon Lee, Penn State university, USA
Pedro Fernandes, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal
Francisco M. Couto, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Andre Falcao, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

CIKM 2008 Steering Committee

E.K. Park, University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA (Chair)
Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, USA
Il Yeol Song, Drexel Uinversity, USA