Publications

This past May, a group of database researchers, architects, users and pundits met at the Claremont Resort in Berkeley, California to discuss the state of the database research field and its impacts on practice. This was the seventh meeting of this sort in twenty years, and was distinguished by a broad consensus that we are at a turning point in the history of the field, due both to an explosion of data and usage scenarios, and to major shifts in computing hardware and platforms.

A website has been set up at http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/claremont which contains:

• a written report of the meeting
• slides on research directions from participants
• a link to an online forum for further discussion