[Berkeley] [EECS Dept.] [CS Division] [Database Research]

CS 286 Implementation of Database Systems

Tu-Th 9:30-11:00
405 Soda Hall
Joe Hellerstein
jmh@cs.berkeley.edu

Office hours: Tuesdays 11-12, or by appointment

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Important Links

• Textbook: Readings in Database Systems, Third Edition.
• Lecture notes: available at copy central, or from the textbook website
• reading for next class
• Pointers to other database information.

Course Information

• Prerequisites: An undergraduate database course is preferable, but not required. Undergraduates will be accepted only if they pass an entrance exam.
• Grading: Students will be required to write up summaries/reactions to all papers. There will be 2 homework assignments, one involving coding and design, another being an essay. All students must undertake a major research project in teams of 2 or 3, and present a poster at the end of the semester. There may also be a final exam.
• Instructions for turning in writeups on the readings: Please email plain text or html to cs286@db.cs.berkeley.edu.

Pointers to other database information

• The Berkeley DBMS Research page is a good place to start.
• The best source of additional database-related information is the ACM-SIGMOD home page.
• Michael Ley maintains an amazing compendium of info on database systems and logic programming.
• UCB grad student Paul Aoki maintains a list of pointers to other random DBMS information.
• Entertaining & informative history of the System R project and followons: Paul R. McJones (Ed.): The System R Home Page

• University of Wisconsin DBMS Research Home Page.
• Stanford Database Group.
• Maryland Database Research Home Page.
• Brown Database Group.
• Cornell Database Group
• University of Toronto Database Group
• U Penn Database Research.
• University of Washington Information retrieval and Database Systems Group
• ... more to come