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A tremendous asset to the database systems research community is the symbiotic relationship between academia and industry. Historically, that collaboration has resulted in a myriad of joint research projects, research prototypes, and commercial successes. Evidence of that relationship continues today, particularly so with the recent spawning of numerous commercial initiatives such as Hadapt, VoltDB, CouchDB, [...]

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One of my personal highlights in attending last week’s ACM SIGMOD 2011 conference in Athens was to take in a tutorial [1] on Thursday morning entitled Data Management Over Flash Memory, presented by Ioannis Koltsidas of IBM Zurich and Stratis Viglas of the University of Edinburgh. Here was the abstract: Flash SSDs are quickly becoming [...]

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I am very pleased to report that Sybase has once again contributed funds to support the Women in Computer Science initiative at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. The faculty and staff of WICS, chaired by Associate Professor Nancy Day, encourage and support the study of Computer Science [...]

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DBTEST 2011 was held on Monday, one of the co-located workshops of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Conference in Athens, Greece and co-chaired by Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo and Goetz Graefe of HP Labs. The workshop’s program featured eight short papers along with my keynote talk which I entitled The Peril of Complexity. [...]

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