Beckman Study of the Database Research
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Every few years a group of database researchers meets to discuss the state of database research, its impact on practice, and important new directions.
The eighth such meeting, held October 14-15, 2013 at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, observed that Big Data has now become a defining challenge of our time, and that the database research community is uniquely positioned to address it, with enormous opportunities to make transformative impact.
To do so, the report summarizing the deliberations at the meeting recommends significantly greater attention to five research areas: scalable big/fast data infrastructures; coping with diversity in the data management landscape; end-to-end processing and understanding of data; cloud services; and managing the diverse roles of people in the data life cycle.
It was our privilege to be able to support this landmark meeting (together with Microsoft Corporation and WalmartLabs).
Mike Carey & AnnHai Doan
