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Academic Systems-Oriented Database Research

Academic Systems-Oriented Database Research. Betty Salzberg Northeastern University HPTS 1999 presentation. A report from the October 1998 NSF workshop on industrial/academic cooperation in database systems. Speakers were from industry Audience was from academia

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Academic Systems-Oriented Database Research

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  1. Academic Systems-Oriented Database Research Betty Salzberg Northeastern University HPTS 1999 presentation

  2. A report from the October 1998 NSF workshop on industrial/academic cooperation in database systems • Speakers were from industry • Audience was from academia • Web site: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/IEEE/ind-acad HPTS-1999 B. Salzberg

  3. System-Oriented Database Research • What mistakes are common on academic papers? • What are good research problems? • What is the value-added of a Ph.D.? • How can industry help get the students and the research it would like? HPTS-1999 B. Salzberg

  4. What mistakes are common on academic papers? • Wrong Assumptions: Example: Jeff Vitter’s 1985 TODS paper where he assumed you could add bits to a block on a WORM disk. But 1000 bytes is the smallest writable unit with a 300-byte checksum burned into the disk. • No Consideration of Performance Costs: Example: Optimistic concurrency. An abort is much more expensive than a wait if there has been any writing. In the no-conflict case, the expense of keeping track of and comparing lists of reads and writes at commit is worse than the expense of a lock table. HPTS-1999 B. Salzberg

  5. Schema integration version management comparative studies zero administration tool for compensation action creation data cleansing cache consistency in three tier systems Distributed application management performance modeling tools for back-tracing support disconnected clients tools to enable exploitation of new hardware and software What are some good research problems? (excerpt from workshop) HPTS-1999 B. Salzberg

  6. What is the value-added of a Ph.D.? • Older and more mature • Can read technical papers critically • Can write technical papers • Can give technical talks • Has completed a long project (Persistent!) • Has been vetted (passed qualifying exam) • More likely than bachelor’s student to understand basics • May have done a lot of programming for the Ph.D. project Does the Ph.D. thesis subject matter? HPTS-1999 B. Salzberg

  7. If you want more relevant research papers and new employees with system sense, please help us.

  8. Collaborate Ph.D. student internships Visits ---(both ways) sabbaticals summers short visits/talks write papers for major conferences send contributions to IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin or SIGMOD Record Let an academic interview you for an article serve on program committees review papers for journals write textbooks or help write them take an academic job (“wouldn’t it be nice if academics were industry professionals as well?”) How can industry help get the students and the research it would like? (suggestions from workshop) HPTS-1999 B. Salzberg

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