Selected Talks (last updated 1/03/2012)

  • Tutorial: Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms - A Data Management Perspective [pdf]
        VLDB, Seattle, USA, September 2011
  • CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing [pdf]
        HPI-Kolloquium, Berlin, Germany, August 2011
        SIGMOD, Athens, Greece, June 2011
        Microsoft Research, California, USA, April 2011
        Stanford InfoSeminar, California, USA, March 2011
        IBM Research - Almaden, California, USA, March 2011
        Analysis and Design of Databases (guest lecture), IEOR, UC Berkeley, California, USA, March 2011
  • Making Sense at Scale with Algorithms, Machines & People [pdf]
        Leadership for Engineering Program, Fung Institute, Berkeley, California, USA, July 2011
  • Outlook for tomorrow: Cloudy with a chance of PIQLs [pdf]
        Yahoo (extended version with Multi-Data-Center Consistency), California, USA, July 2011
        UW MSR Summer Institute, Cloud Data Services, Washington, USA, August 2010
        Greenplum (extended version together with M. Armbrust), California, USA, December 2010
  • An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud [pdf]
        Amazon, Washington, USA, September 2010
        Discovery 2015: Cloud Computing Institute, LBNL and CITRIS, California, USA, July 2010
        Azure and SQL Server Team, Microsoft, Washington, USA, June 2010
  • Data Management in the Cloud [pdf]
        TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany, February 2010.
  • The Potential of Cloud Computing: Challenges, Opportunities, Impact [pdf]
        CANDE workshop (invited talk), Monterey, California, USA, November 2010
  • Consistency Rationing[pdf]
        AMP Class, UC Berkeley, California, USA, April 2010
        VLDB Conference, Lyon, France, August 2009
        Microsoft Research, California, USA, July 2009
        Oracle, California, USA, July 2009
        NEC Labs, California, USA, July 2009
  • XQuery Reloaded[pdf]
        VLDB Conference, Lyon, France, August 2009
  • Cloudy Work at the Systems Groups[pdf]
        NEC Labs, California, USA, July 2009
        RADLab, UC Berkeley, California, USA, July 2009
  • Benchmarking the Cloud[pdf]
        DBTest Workshop (SIGMOD09), Providence, USA, June 2009
  • Building a Database on S3[pdf]
        ACM SIGMOD, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008
        Oracle, California, USA, October 2008
        Azure and SQL Server Team, Microsoft, Washington, USA, October 2008
  • Windowing for XQuery[pdf]
        W3C XQuery Working Group, California, USA, October 2007
        Oracle, California, USA, March 2008
  • Software Mass Customization
        C&P Connect Workshop, UBS, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2007