As the recent performance of IBM's Watson system on the game show Jeopardy! illustrated, the combination of large-scale data, rich algorithm suites and powerful...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | February 18, 2011 at 04:17 PM
U.S. government agencies are spending boatloads of money on pushing the envelope of massive compute servers, but appear to be ignoring the fact that many research...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | January 14, 2011 at 04:54 PM
Here's my two cents worth on why an estimated 61% of enterprise users are either ignorant about or uninterested in NoSQL.
Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | September 30, 2010 at 09:53 PM
Data warehouses, business intelligence, business analytics, and complex analytics are the subject of increasingly intense marketing wars, seemingly accelerated...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | August 26, 2010 at 02:38 PM
Earlier this summer the first ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing was held in Indianapolis, Indiana. With three stellar keynotes and an exceptional program, the inaugural...Jeff Hammerbacher From BLOG@CACM | August 23, 2010 at 09:07 AM
These “grand challenges” of systems biology encompass almost every aspect of modern computing, from numerical and symbolic methods through data management and analytics...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | July 17, 2010 at 09:40 AM
Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | July 9, 2010 at 03:42 PM
One of the goals of this years Computers Freedom and Privacy conference is to ask the question, "Can we be 'smart' and private?" Wednesday's panel onIntellegent...Katy Nelson From BLOG@CACM | June 16, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Recently, there has been considerable renewed interest in the CAP theorem for database management system (DBMS) applications that span multiple processing sites...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | April 5, 2010 at 11:28 AM
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about "No SQL" databases. This blog post considers the performance argument about No SQL databases; a subsequent posting...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | November 4, 2009 at 08:56 AM
Relational database management systems (DBMSs) have been remarkably successful in capturing the DBMS marketplace. To a first approximation they are “the only game...Michael Stonebraker From BLOG@CACM | June 30, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Someone may win the one million dollar Netflix Prize soon. Will the winning algorithm produce movie recommendations that people like?Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | March 24, 2009 at 12:05 PM