| September 2014 | Vol. 37 No. 3 |  IEEE Computer Society | 
| Letters | 
| Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 1 | 
| Message from the TCDE Chair Nominating Committee | Amr El-Abaddi, Paul Larson, and David Lomet | 2 | 
| Election for Chair of IEEE Computer Society TC on Data Engineering | Brookes Little | 2 | 
| TCDE Chair Candidate Erich Neuhold | Erich Neuhold | 3 | 
| TCDE Chair Candidate Xiaofang Zhou | Xiaofang Zhou | 4 | 
| Letter from the Special Issue Editor | Christopher Jermaine | 5 | 
| Special Issue on Databases, Declarative Systems and Machine Learning | 
| Lifted Probabilistic Inference: A Guide for the Database Researcher |   | 
| Eric Gribkoff, Dan Suciu, and Guy Van den Broeck | 6 | 
| Probabilistic Data Programming with ENFrame | Dan Olteanu and Sebastiaan J. van Schaik | 18 | 
| Feature Engineering for Knowledge Base Construction |   | 
| Christopher Ré, Amir Abbas Sadeghian, Zifei Shan, Jaeho Shin, Feiran Wang, Sen Wu, Ce Zhang | 26 | 
| Efficient In-Database Analytics with Graphical Models | Daisy Zhe Wang, Yang Chen, Christan Grant, and Kun Li | 41 | 
| SystemML's Optimizer: Plan Generation for Large-Scale Machine Learning Programs |   | 
| Matthias Boehm, Douglas R. Burdick, Alexandre V. |   | 
| Evfimievski, Berthold Reinwald, Frederick R. Reiss, Prithviraj Sen, Shirish Tatikonda, and Yuanyuan Tian | 52 | 
| Tupleware: Distributed Machine Learning on Small Clusters | Andrew Crotty, Alex Galakatos, and Tim Kraska | 63 | 
| Cumulon: Cloud-Based Statistical Analysis from Users Perspective |   | 
| Botong Huang, Nicholas W.D. Jarrett, Shivnath Babu, Sayan Mukherjee, and Jun Yang | 77 | 
| Announcements and Notices | 
| ICDE 2015 Conference | 90 | 
| TCDE Membership Form | backcover |