1. Sam Madden madden@csail.mit.edu Thoughts on the State of the DB Community

2. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse –Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY

3. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse –Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY

4. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse –Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example –Much higher impact per paper *SOSP (56 cites per paper) is 2x SIGMOD (26 cites per paper MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY

5. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse –Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example –Much higher impact per paper *SOSP (56 cites per paper) is 2x SIGMOD (26 cites per paper –Top authors have 1/3 rd the pubs (Liskov = 13 SOSP+OSDI) MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-systems-top-50.html

6. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse –Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example –Much higher impact per paper *SOSP (56 cites per paper) is 2x SIGMOD (26 cites per paper –Top authors have 1/3 rd the pubs (Liskov = 13 SOSP+OSDI) Proposal: create a “super conference”; single track, where it is an honor to present, that every one wants to attend. MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-systems-top-50.html

7. Thoughts on Community Conferences are too diffuse –Single-track conferences provide a vastly superior experience Use OS community as an example –Much higher impact per paper *SOSP (56 cites per paper) is 2x SIGMOD (26 cites per paper –Top authors have 1/3 rd the pubs (Liskov = 13 SOSP+OSDI) Proposal: create a “super conference”; single track, where it is an honor to present, that every one wants to attend. Think CIDR but where the papers are actually good And from the whole community MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-systems-top-50.html

8. Thoughts on Research “Big Data” continues to lead CS By defining “databases” as “relational data management systems”, we lose out We can do better at getting general data intensive computing folks to participate in our community A “good” database paper shouldn’t have to be full of psuedomath SOCC is on the right track, but cloud computing isn’t hip anymore MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY