Paris, June 15, 2004 — Many of the top researchers in database systems from around the world gathered in Paris, France for the SIGMOD/PODS conference last week. They met to share information about innovations to advance the state-of-the art in the field.
The latest research results from several members of Microsoft Research were presented, including those from Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek Narasayya, Nicolas Bruno, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Chris Meek, and Jim Gray. Philip Bernstein participated in a panel discussion. In addition, the Databases research group, led by David Lomet, was a Platinum sponsor of the event.
Jim Gray, a leading expert in database design, and the manager of the Bay Area Research Center at Microsoft Research, gave the keynote speech on June 15. His speech, entitled ‘A Baker’s Dozen Revolutions in Database System Architecture,’ outlined his belief that database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes.
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He notes that every database management system is now a Web service, and this has huge implications for how we structure applications. Other changes included in his baker’s dozen included frameworks for data mining and machine learning, Bayesian nets, and the ability to add new algorithms.
Gray’s work focuses on databases and transaction processing. He is active in the research community, is an ACM, NAE, NAS, and AAAS Fellow, and received the ACM Turing Award for his work on transaction processing. He edits a series of books on data management. He’s also helped to build online databases such as TerraService and SkyServer (opens in new tab).
The researchers from the Data Management, Exploring, and Mining group at Microsoft Research had a stellar showing this year at SIGMOD with five accepted research papers, the highest from any single research group. The papers range over topics on self-tuning database systems, novel technology for ease of database administration and data summarization techniques. The group has focused its recent research on self-tuning database systems, data cleaning, and new paradigms for data exploration. The technology developed in this group has led to the index tuning wizard/database tuning advisor, data mining and data cleaning functionality in Microsoft SQL Server.
Additional Presenters: Several Microsoft employees from different product groups presented papers or conducted workshops at the event. They are: Raghu Ramakrishna, Hongfei Guo, Marc Najork, Dennis Fetterly, Mark Manasse, Goetze Graefe, Mike Zwilling, Cesar A. Galindo-Legaria, Stefano Stefani, Florian Wass Alazel Acheson, Mason Bendixen, José A. Blakeley, Peter Carlin, Ebru Ersan, Jun Fang, Xiaowei Jiang, Christian Kleinerman, Balaji Rathakrishnan, Gideon Schaller, Beysim Sezgin, Ramachandran Venkatesh, Honggang Zhang, Martin Gudgin, Per Bendsen – Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Gideon Schaller, and Nigel Westbury.
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