Communications of the ACM
'outrageous Ideas' at Cidr: Seeking to Stimulate Innovative Research Directions
The Computing Community Consortium is sponsoring a series of "wacky idea" sessions aimed at identifying major new research opportunities. The program hopes to move beyond the conventional scientific reviewing process by making new papers more widely accessible.
The latest session, called the Outrageous Ideas and Visions (OIV) track and held at the recent Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), focused on long-term issues for the database and data management communities that are outside of current mainstream research in the field. The CIDR program committee accepted 12 OIV papers that introduced new application domains, approaches, and ways of thinking about data management and analysis.
First prize was awarded to Saarland University researchers Jens Dittrich and Alekh Jindal, who proposed an architecture for database systems that can act as a log-based storage model. Second prize went to University of California, Berkeley researchers Kuang Chen, Joe Hellerstein, and Tapan Parikh, who examined techniques for data collection in public health organizations. Third prize went to Duke University's Sarah Cohen and Jun Yang, University of Texas at Arlington's Chengkai Li, and Google's Cong Yu, who studied methods for computational journalism.
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