Selected Talks
- My Database Totally Hates Me!
[pdf]
    CIDR 2011 Gong Show Presentation, Asilomar, CA 1/11
    (voted as the Gong Show presentation "Most likely idea to win a Turing Award in 30 years")
- AMPLab: Algorithms, Machines and People
[pdf]
    AMPLab Research Retreat - Winter 2010, Asilomar, CA 12/10
    Orange Institute, Orange Labs, So. San Francisco, CA 11/10
    UC San Diego, San Diego, CA 11/10
- Crowds, Clouds and Algorithms: Exploring the Human Side of "Big Data"
[pptx]
    (Panel Presentation) ACM Sigmod Conf., Indianapolis, IN, 6/10
- Continuous Analytics Over Discontinuous Streams
[pptx]
    ACM Sigmod Conf., Indianapolis, IN, 6/10
- Solving the Scalability Dilemma with Clouds, Crowds and Algorithms
[pptx]
    Keynote at 19th Intl Conf on Software Eng. and Data Eng., SF, CA ,6/10
    Keynote at Intl Conf. on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC)., Hwalien, Taiwan, 5/10
    National Taiwan University., Taipei, Taiwan, 5/10
- The Alliance vs. The Horde: A Struggle for the Future of Data
[pdf]
    Distinguished Lecture Series, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 3/10
- Cloud Computing Research at the RADLab: Present and Future
[pdf]
    Stanford InfoSeminar, Palo Alto, CA ,3/10
    IBM Almaden Research Ctr., San Jose, CA, 2/10
- The Future of the Cloud
[pptx]
[video]
[pdf]
    UC Berkeley EECS BEARS Symposium, Berkeley, 2/10
- Alternative Strategies for Pervasive Business Intelligence
[podcast
(registration req.)]
    Panel Discussion on "DM Radio" 12/09
- Fathoming the (Deep) Real-time Web
[pdf]
    Defrag 09 Conference, Denver, CO, 11/09
    Charles River Ventures, Real-time Web Off-site, Palo Alto, CA, 9/09
- Continuous Analytics: Stream Query Processing in Practice
[pdf]
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 12/09
    HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, 10/09
    Distinguished Lecture Series, University of California, Irvine, CA, 4/09
    Keynote at New England Database Day, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1/09
- Dataspaces: Progress and Prospects
[pdf]
    Keynote at British National Conference on Databases, Birmingham, UK, 7/09
- 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]
    Distinguished Lecture Series, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 11/06.
    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 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 Slides in
[pdf (6 per page)]
[pdf (2 per page)]
    Tutorial for the 2001 VLDB Conference, Rome.
- Challenges in Ubiquitous Data Management
[ppt]
    Invited Talk at the Dagstuhl 10th Anniversary Conference, Saarbrucken, August 2000.