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The Lowell Database Research Self
Assessment
June 1, 2003
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Stan Zdonik
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Jennifer Widom
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Gerhard Weikum
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Jeff Ullman
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Rick Snodgrass
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Mike Stonebraker
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Avi Silberschatz
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Timos Sellis
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Hans Schek
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Jeff Naughton
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David Maier
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Serge Abiteboul
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Rakesh Agrawal
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Phil Bernstein
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Mike Carey
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Stefano Ceri
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Bruce Croft
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David DeWitt
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Mike Franklin
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Hector Garcia Molina
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Dieter Gawlick
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Jim Gray
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Laura Haas
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Alon Halevy
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Joe Hellerstein
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Yannis Ioannidis
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Martin Kersten
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Michael Pazzani
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Mike Lesk
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9
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MSR-TR-2003-69
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A group of senior database researchers gathers every few years to assess the state of database
research and to point out problem areas that deserve additional focus. This report summarizes the
discussion and conclusions of the sixth ad-hoc meeting held May 4-6, 2003 in Lowell, Mass. It
observes that information management continues to be a critical component of most complex
software systems. It recommends that database researchers increase focus on: integration of text,
data, code, and streams; fusion of information from heterogeneous data sources; reasoning about
uncertain data; unsupervised data mining for interesting correlations; information privacy; and
self-adaptation and repair.
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