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CS Colloquium: Michael Carey (UCI)

Speaker: Michael Carey, University of California, Irvine

Talk Title: One Size Fits A Bunch: The ASTERIX Approach to Big Data Management

Series: CS Colloquium

Abstract: Like most fields, the database field has gone through various eras - a.k.a. pendulum swings - and we are currently in the era of "One Size Fits All: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone". This is great news for industry sectors such as the Bubble Gum industry and the international consortium of Baling Wire manufacturers, and it is also very good news for Information Integration enthusiasts. Why? Because the current state of practice related to "Big Data" involves somehow piecing together many systems whose target sizes fit different use cases. This talk will provide an overview of the ASTERIX project at UC Irvine, a counter-cultural systems project in SoCal in which we are building a new, coherent, scalable, open-source "Big Data" software stack that we hope will solve a range of problems that today require too many piece parts to solve.

Biography: Michael J. Carey is an ex-long-time member of the NorCal database community. Carey defected to SoCal in 2008, where he is currently a Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. Prior to his defection, he worked at BEA Systems in NorCal as the chief architect of (and an engineering director for) BEA's AquaLogic Data Services Platform. Carey also did time as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at IBM Almaden as a database researcher/manager, and as a Fellow (and briefly VP of Software) at e-commerce software startup Propel Software during the 2000-2001 Internet bubble. He is an ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award. His current research interests are centered around data-intensive computing and scalable data management.

Host: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Assistant to CS chair