Doom and Gloom Redux David De Witt 2005
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Doom and Gloom Redux David De. Witt
2005 Facts • DB research funding is incredibly tight – Except, it seems, in the Netherlands • All the low hanging fruit has been picked
Could it be worse? • Sure, you could be a Ph. D student or an assistant professor in English or History or Religion or some field that requires 10 years of postdoc’ing
Also worse • Theory or graphics or PL or operating systems or … • We still have it really good compared to everyone except those folks doing security • Avalanche of data that someone has to store and process
Why are Big Mike and I so depressed? • We are both approaching 60 at a rapid pace • Big Mike might be 60 already • Little Mike is losing his hair - he should be depressed too
More 2005 Gloom • Science-challenged administration • DARPA has become “demos are us” • Vast quantities of NSF funding hijacked by the grid folks – We need to learn from these guys • Old farts yearn for the glory days of their youth – Beyond what chemicals can do
What made 1980 -1995 so exciting • Codd put a VERY tall stake in the ground • Huge amount of funding – NSF and DARPA response to Japan’s “ 5 th Generation project” – Star War’s trickle down – NASA MTPE
Making the Sun Shine • Need a new TALL stake – Must have compelling applications of national importance – Not streams – Not XML – Cannot have anythng to do with traditional commercial data processing
Three Obvious Candidate Domains 1) Large scientific data sets 2) Digital world (sensors) 3) Health care/patient data
