Lowell Gong Show

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Lowell Gong Show

• Phil Bernstein

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Drivers of Research Topics

• Exploit Improved System Technology
• networks (distd DB), WWW (data integration),
  disks (VLDBs), sensors (streaming queries)
• New Ideas for Classical DB Technologies
• access methods, query optimizn, auto-admin,
  metadata
• Grand Challenges
• Info Utility (Asilomar98), Jim Grays list, CRA
  GC Conf no medical errors (Lomet), no auto
  fatalities (Lampson)
• Combine DB Non-DB technology
• natural language, rules, data mining, XML
• Applications
• engineering, multimedia, bio-medical informatics

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Knowledge-Based Systems that Work

• Move from data mgmt to knowledge mgmt
• A useful way to soak up desktop cycles
• A big functionality improvement over DBMSs
• More logical inferencing
• Theorem proving, fuzzy inferencing, model
  checking
• Integrated with query processing and IR
• Richer knowledge representation
• And much larger knowledge bases
• Engineer the combination of AI DB
• Robust systems with predictable capability
• Applications scientific investigation,
  engineering design, medical diagnosis

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Experiment Management Systems

• Data mgmt for experimental investigation
• Rapid evolution of system under test, schemas,
  analysis scripts, workflow
• Comprehensive versioning (types, schemas, data)
• Heavy use of rich data types
• Heavy use of data mining
• Integration with portal management
• Applications
• Science especially bio-medical
• Engineering benchmarking, process engineering