Database research at AT&T Bell Laboratories

  • Authors:
  • H. V. Jagadish

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Bell Laboratories is the Research and Development arm of AT&T. There is today tremendous support for database research in Bell Labs and in AT&T. This is expected to continue since database technology is recognized as being central not just to Teradata, NCR, and AT&T's computing business but to its core communication business as well. What you see described below is a survey of the current state of a young and growing research effort in the database area. You should expect to see a stronger “resume” a few years down the road.Research at AT&T Bell Labs is never directed from above, towards specific projects or objectives. Individual researchers select their areas of research based on a combination of factors that include individual skill and interest, other on-going activity and potential for collaboration, and the likelihood of intellectual or monetary impact. While research activity can range from the highly theoretical to the completely applied, it is expected that most research be performed within the framework of some larger objective; and this framework is typically provided by a prototype system.In addition to the core set of people here full-time, often there are visitors. You will see the names of many of these in the publications listed. For instance, most recently Oded Shmueli from the Technion spent a year with us. Currently, Avi Silberschatz is visiting from Austin.