Massachusetts Institute of Technology (stonebraker@lcs.mit.edu) The Report Michael Stonebraker Adjunct Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (stonebraker@lcs.mit.edu) 1

Context We have to write one (or we look stupid) We can’t say “we got it right in 1997”

Proposal Make up a 50 year challenge With a 5-10 year milestone “Highest pole in the tent”

Tone Information management focus Networks and CPUs are tools

Reasonable Tents Deep WEB Personal DBMS Query the internet

Example – Integrate the “Deep Web” Structured data on the web Your home security system (and toothbrush) is on the web

Example – Integrate the “Deep Web” New data model and QL for text streams structured data triggers

Example – Integrate the “Deep Web” Heterogeneous federated DB 10 ** 6 sites Semi-automatic wrappers “Finding” problem Dynamic federation Schema choosing

Example – Integrate the “Deep Web” Self repair Self adapt New GUIs Privacy

Example – Integrate the “Deep Web” Superset of TIA problem “Tell me something interesting”

Short Term Goals Get a benchmark/test harness Have a serious pow-wow with IR Play out the separate stream system debate Design next version of Xstuff Get somewhere on “tell me something interesting” Get somewhere on wrapper technology