The Seattle Report on Database Research
Every five years, a group of the leading database researchers meet to reflect on their community's impact on the computing industry as well as examine current research challenges.
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How We Teach CS2All, and What to Do About Database Decay
Valerie Barr considers how to make computer science education meaningful and relevant to all, while a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory offers strategies to counter database decay.
Database Decay and What To Do About It
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.
The Land Sharks Are on the Squawk Box
It turns out riding across America is more than a handy metaphor for building system software.
The Beckman Report on Database Research
Database researchers paint big data as a defining challenge. To make the most of the enormous opportunities at hand will require focusing on five research areas.
How Men Can Help Women in CS; Winning ‘Computing’s Nobel Prize’
Valerie Barr suggests how men can better promote women in computing, while Michael Stonebraker shares how it feels to receive the top honor in the computer science field.
What It’s Like to Win the Turing Award
Michael Stonebraker is an adjunct professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and recipient of the 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
A Valuable Lesson, and Whither Hadoop?
Valerie Barr considers outcomes from the Grace Hopper Celebration, while Michael Stonebraker ponders the past, present, and possible future of the "Hadoop stack."
Why the ‘Data Lake’ Is Really A ‘Data Swamp’
The notion of putting all one's data into a "data lake" to encourage employees to run analytics has a serious flaw.
A few facts and opinions and a couple of announcements, with a prediction on where the "Hadoop stack" might be going.
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