NSF IDM PI WorkshopResearch From An Industry

Perspective

Raghu RamakrishnanUW-Madison (and QUIQ … IBM/Microsoft/Virage)

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Research Climate:Academia

• Where do I find interesting problems?– Make them up– Solve someone else’s (Collaboration!)

• Joint projects with industry

• Where do I find money to solve them?– If you find out, let me know

• How do I find students to solve it for me?– By becoming famous, writing a lot of papers

(and having money)

Research Climate: Big Company

• Where do I find interesting problems?– The product groups in the company– Customers

• Where do I find money to solve them?– My manager– Product groups– Customers

• How do I get to hire more people?– By making those with money happy

Comments

• Shift in financial conditions is forcing shorter horizons for research, and increasing demand for near-term returns– Product groups vs. research groups dynamics

• Continued interest in working with academia, but less money to support academic partners

Current Areas of Interest

• Manageability, diagnostics, tuning

• On-demand computing (“grids”, clusters)

• XML

• Text

• Analytics

• Data cleaning, integration

• Security, privacy

• Applications (bio, streams)

Research Climate: Medium Company

• Where do I find interesting problems?– You don’t find them. You solve problems you

have to, and focus on building a product.

• Where do I find money to solve them?– By selling your product

• How do I get to hire more people?– By building and selling a product

Comments

• Hard to find ways to collaborate with this category of company– But don’t let that stop you from trying—I’m

just sharing one perspective, and your experience may be different

Research Climate:Very Small Company

• Where do I find interesting problems?– Refining your company’s core IP– Reading a BAA

• Where do I find money to solve them?– Federal contracts, SBIR grants

• How do I get to hire more people?– No, you try to pay the people you already have.

Comments

• Collaboration is typically by invitation—insiders drive the work, and call on people they know to fill in gaps– Send Chrismas cards to all your friends who

just started a small company

NSF IDM WorkshopScience of Design for Information Systems

SDIS 2003

Phil BernsteinAlon Halevy

Raghu Ramakrishnan

Workshop Goal

• Identify research challenges in design of information systems– Unique opportunities, motivating scenarios

• Identify disciplines and groups that must work together to solve these challenges– Across academia and industry

• Recommend NSF activities to support SDIS– What types of activities, grants?

People

• A: Design and Data Integration– Bernstein, Borgida, Florescu, Gasser, Halevy

• B: Design for Dynamic Data Environments– Chaudhuri, Franklin, Ramakrishnan, Tsotras, Widom, Yuan

• C: Design and Data Location– Ghandaharizadeh, Jagadish, Korth, Srivastava, Wolfson

• D: Designing around complex relationships, processes– Carey, Chrysanthis, Dayal, Su, Thatte

• E: Designing for Security and Privacy– Clifton, Gehrke, Rosenthal, Sripada, Suciu, Winslett

• At large– Maria Zemankova, Bhavani Thuraisingham