Fractal Trees May Be Useful for Making Energy-Efficient Databases
On April 9-10 the National Science Foundation hosted the Workshop on the Science of Power Management (SciPM 2009), where I gave an invited talk. Here I give a brief summary of my talk along with a...
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I gave a talk entitled “How to Index Massive Data Sets Quickly” at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center. The event was hosted at the Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT) and was jointly supported...
View ArticleDon’t Thrash: How to Cache your Hash on Flash
Last week I gave a talk entitled “Don’t Thrash: How to Cache your Hash.” The talk took place at the Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (ADS) in a medieval castle turned conference center in...
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It Actually is Easy Being Green
(Fractal) Tree Frog Fractal Tree™ indexes are green. They have the potential to be greener still. Here’s why: Remarkably, data centers consume 1-3 percent of all the US electricity. A majority of this...
View ArticleDatabase Algorithms sin Pantalones
So there I was, gesticulating in front of the chalkboard, lecturing to 120 students. Topic: the beauty of advanced data structures. The door opens and the department chair walks up the aisle onto the...
View ArticleTutorial Tomorrow, 5/19, at the 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)
This Saturday afternoon in New York, Martin Farach-Colton and I will run a tutorial on the theoretical foundations of memory sensitive computing to be be held at the 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of...
View ArticleReview of the Tutorial on Algorithms for Memory Sensitive Computing at STOC
Martin Farach-Colton and I ran a Tutorial on Algorithms for Memory Sensitive Computing on May 18th at the 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) at NYU. Here is the program for the tutorial....
View ArticleIndexing Big Data – NSF Workshop on Research Directions in the Principles of...
I attended the NSF Workshop on Research Directions in the Principles of Parallel Computation in Pittsburgh on 6/27/12. The workshop brought together researchers from academia and industry to explore...
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Dagstuhl Seminar on Database Workload Management
A few weeks ago Bradley Kuszmaul and I attended the Dagstuhl Seminar on Database Workload Management. The Dagstuhl computer science research center is (remotely) located in the countryside in Saarland,...
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Report on XLDB Tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms
Bradley and I (Michael) gave the tutorial on Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Databases at the 6th XLDB Conference last month. The tutorial was organized as follows: Module 0: Tutorial overview...
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I gave a talk entitled “How to Index Massive Data Sets Quickly” at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center. The event was hosted at the Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT) and was jointly supported...
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