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

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

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

4. Tone
Information management focus
Networks and CPUs are tools

5. Reasonable Tents
Deep WEB
Personal DBMS
Query the internet

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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