Michael J. Franklin Professor EECS, Computer Science Division University of California, Berkeley

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Large-scale Distributed Database Systems Mobile and Pervasive Computing Data Streams, Dissemination, and Broadcast DBMS Architecture and Performance Evaluation See the UC Berkeley Database Group Homepage for more information. Also, don't miss the (usually) weekly Database Systems Seminar.

SELECTED TALKS

• "From Moore to Metcalf: The Network as the Next Database Platform " [PPT]
  Keynote at HPDC 07, Monterey, CA, and DaMon/ExpDB Workshop (at SIGMOD 07), Beijing, 6/07.
• "Abstractions for Shared Sensor Networks" [PPT]
  Keynote at Int’l Workshop on Data Management in Sensor Networks (DMSN ’06) at VLDB, Seoul, 9/06.
• "The Structure of (Computer) Scientific Revolutions" [PPT]
  Keynote at Dow Jones Enterprise Ventures, San Jose, CA, 6/06.
• "HiFi Systems: Network-centric Query Processing for the Physical World" [PPT]
  Keynote talk at COMAD, Hyderabad, 12/05
• "Data Management Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Home" [PPT]
  Keynote at IEEE ICME Conference, Amsterdam, 7/05.
• "My CIDR Epiphany: Real World Data, Schema, and Environment" [PPT]
  Panel presentation at the SIGMOD PC post-meeting symposium, Stanford, 2/05..
• "XML + Query Processing: A Foundation for Intelligent Networks" [PPT]
  Keynote at the 2003 XML Database Symposium (XSym '03) at VLDB, Berlin, September 2003.
• "Data Streams, Message Brokers, Sensor Nets, and other Strange Places for Database Queries" [PPT]
  Plenary Talk at the ACM PODC Conference, Boston, July 2003.
• "Data Management for Pervasive Computing: A Tutorial" (With M. Cherniack and S. Zdonik)
  Tutorial for the 2001 VLDB Conference, Rome.  Tutorial Slides in [PDF(6 per page)] [PDF(2 per page)].
• "Challenges in Ubiquitous Data Management" [PPT] [Associated Paper – PDF]
  Invited Talk at the Dagstuhl 10th Anniversary Conference, Saarbrucken, August 2000.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• From Databases to Dataspaces: A New Abstraction for Information Management
     M. Franklin, A. Halevy, and D. Maier
     ACM SIGMOD Record, December 2005.

HiFi, TelegraphCQ, Sensors and Data Stream Processing

• Adaptive Execution of Variable-Accuracy Functions
     M. Denny and M. Franklin
      VLDB Conference, September, 2006, Seoul
• Adaptive Cleanining for RFID Data Streams
     S. Jeffery, M. Garofalakis and M. Franklin
      VLDB Conference, September, 2006, Seoul
• Declarative Support for Sensor Data Cleaning
     S. Jeffery, G. Alonso, M. Franklin, W. Hong, and J. Widom
      4^th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006), May 2006, Dublin, Ireland.
• Design Considerations for High Fan-in Systems: The HiFi Approach
     M. Franklin, S. Jeffery, S. Krishnamurthy, F. Reiss, S. Rizvi, E. Wu, O. Cooper,  A. Edakkunni,, and W. Hong
      CIDR Conference, January, 2005, Asilomar, CA
• Events on the Edge
     S. Rizvi , S. Jeffery, S. Krishnamurthy, M. Franklin, N. Burkhart, A. Edakkunni, and L. Liang
      ACM SIGMOD Conference, June 2005, Baltimore, (System Demonstration). 
• Remembrance of Streams Past: Overload-Sensitive Management of Archived Data Streams
  Sirish Chandrasekaran and Michael J. Franklin
      VLDB Conference, August, 2004, Toronto.
• TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World
      (with members of the Telegraph Group), 1st CIDR Conf., Jan 2003, Asilomar, CA.

Other Systems: YFilter, GridDB, and TinyDB

• Sentry Pallets for Automated Monitoring of Spatial Constraints: Models and Initial Experiments
     P. Cudre-Mauroux, M. Fogel, K. Goldberg, and M. Franklin
      IEEE Int’l Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2006, Orlando, FL.
• Towards an Internet-Scale XML Dissemination Service
  Yanlei Diao, Shariq Rizvi,  and Michael J. Franklin
      VLDB Conference, August, 2004, Toronto.
• Path Sharing and Predicate Evaluation for High-Performance XML Filtering
  Yanlei Diao, Mehmet Altinel, Michael J. Franklin, Hao Zhang, and Peter Fischer,
     ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Dec. 2003.  (A shorter Overview of YFilter appeared in DEBull March 03).
• The Design of GridDB: A Data-Centric Overlay for the Scientific Grid
      David T. Liu and Michael J. Franklin
      VLDB Conference, August, 2004, Toronto.
• TinyDB: An Acquisitional Query Processing System for Sensor Networks
      Sam Madden, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong
      ACM Transactions on Database Systems (Best Papers of SIGMOD/PODS 03), March 2005.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

• HiFi: Large-scale Sensor and Receptor Networks
• Telegraph and Telegraph CQ: Adaptive Dataflow and Data Stream Processing
• YFilter: High-Volume XML Message Brokering and Filtering
• TinyDB: Query Processing for Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
• GriPhyN: The Grid Physics Network
• PDDM: Profile-Driven Data Management

TEACHING & ADVISING

Courses:

Spring 2009 – CS 286: Implementation of Database Systems

CS 186 Database Systems      (Fall 2008, Spring 2006, Fall & Spring 2004, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, …) 

Fall 2005 – EE C201 Strategic Computing and Communications Technology (w/ Hal Varian)

Fall 2004 - CS 186 Database Systems. and CS262A  Advanced Topics in Computer Systems (w/ Eric Brewer)
Spring 2002 - CS 262B Advanced Topics in Computer Systems (with Kim Keeton).)

    Students and Alumni (Ph.D. & Postdoc):

Daisy Zhe Wang (expected 2010, UCB)
Shawn Jeffery (2008, UCB), Co-Founder, Goodguide, Inc.
David Liu (2007, UCB), McKinsey & Company
Matt Denny, (2006, UCB), Analyst, Fred Alger Management, Inc.
Sailesh Krishnamurthy, (2006, UCB), Co-Founder,Truviso, Inc.
Sirish Chandrasekaran, (2005, UCB), McKinsey & Company
Yanlei Diao, (2005, UCB), Assistant Professor, UMASS Amherst
Sam Madden, (2003, UCB), Associate Professor, MIT
Tolga Urhan, (2001, UMD),  Engineering Manager, BEA
Mehmet Altinel, (2000, METU w/ Asuman Dogac), IBM Almaden Research Center
Demet Aksoy,  (2000, UMD), Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Björn Þór Jónsson, (1998, UMD), Associate Professor, Reykjavik University
Laurent Amsaleg (postdoc 1997), IRISA-CNRS
Donald Kossmann  (postdoc 1996), Professor, ETH Zurich