Back to the Future in Database Conferences
Journals in database conference have become pretty irrelevant, as they have throughout much of Computer Science. However, conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE and a few boutique specialities (I cannot do the American spelling of specialty :) continue to be extremely relevant, but equally importantly, they have to continuously reinvent themselves to be so. To that end, there are two very interesting developments worth noting.
- VLDB is modernizing by introducing its own YouTube like requirements, called DBClips. Read Alon Halevy's blog on this.
- SIGMOD is modernizing (or going back to the future in the traditional scientific sense, and by that distinguishing itself from other mechanisms to publish database research) by requiring that the data used to generate experimental results be submitted alongwith results, for reproducibility. Read Panos Ipeirotis's blog here. I had commented on this sometime back, in a slightly different context, see James Governor's blog and my comment in it (I still need to prioritize what I had promised there, but maybe this SIGMOD move will help me get there).
Finally, since this is devoted to database geeks, see this very funny clip here.
Comments