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==Using the Crowd to Solve Database Problems==
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              Using the Crowd to Solve Database Problems

                                                     Donald Kossman
                                                   ETH Systems Grouo
                                                  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
                                                  donaldk@inf.ethz.ch



1.   ABSTRACT OF THE INVITED TALK                                2.   SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Database systems have been quite successful over the last        Donald Kossmann is a professor for Computer Science at
decades for a wide range of applications. One of the strengths   ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He received his MS in 1991
of the current generation of database products is their pre-     from the University of Karlsruhe and completed his PhD
cise, formalized semantics based on the relational data model    in 1995 at the Technical University of Aachen. After that,
(i.e., SQL) and a closed world assumption. These proper-         he held positions at the University of Maryland, the IBM Al-
ties allow databases to scale well and to perform a number       maden Research Center, the University of Passau, the Tech-
of optimizations (e.g., use of indexes, automatic paralleliza-   nical University of Munich, and the University of Heidel-
tion, and the use of specialized, highly tuned algorithms).      berg. He is a former associate editor of ACM Transactions
However, these properties also limit the usability of state-     on Databases and ACM Transactions on Internet Technol-
of-the-art database systems to a number of applications that     ogy. He is an ACM fellow, a member of the board of trustees
require a more open world of information. This talk gives an     of the VLDB endowment, and was the program committee
overview of such applications, shows how databases can be        chair of the ACM SIGMOD Conf., 2009. He is a co-founder
extended to meet such requirements, and specifically shows       of i-TV-T (1998), XQRL Inc. (acquired by BEA in 2002),
how crowd-sourcing can be integrated to meet the require-        and 28msec Inc. (2007). His research interests lie in the area
ments of such applications. Experience of the CrowdDB            of databases and information systems.
project at ETH Zurich and UC Berkeley is given. The re-
sults reported in the talk are joint work with: Mike Franklin
(UC Berkeley), Tim Kraska (UC Berkeley), Sukriti Ramesh
(ETH), Reynold Qin (UC Berkeley), and Florian Widmer
(ETH).

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