Welcome
Keynotes
Juan Loaiza - Engineering Database Hardware and Software Together
Anastasia Ailamaki - Databases and Hardware: The Beginning and Sequel of a Beautiful Friendship
Todd Walter - Big Plateaus of Big Data on the Big Island
Magdalena Balazinska - Big Data Research: Will Industry Solve all the Problems?
Panels
Phil Bernstein, Michael Brodie, Don Chamberlin, Alfons Kemper, Michael Stonebraker, Pat Selinger - 40 Years of VLDB: Our Heritage and our Future
Azza Abouzied, Adam Marcus, Arnab Nandi, Eugene Wu, Joseph M. Hellerstein - Designing for Interaction: Broadening our View of Working with Data
Awards
Michael Stonebraker - The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box (How Riding a Bicycle across America and Building Postgres Have a Lot in Common)
Christopher Re - Using Scalable Inference to Build DeepDive: A Declarative Dark Data System
Mike Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin, Xuedong Chen, Mitch Cherniack, Miguel Ferreira, Edmond Lau, Amerson Lin, Sam Madden, Elizabeth O’Neil, Pat O’Neil, Alex Rasin, Nga Tran, Stan Zdonik - C-Store: Looking back and looking forward