Time for Our Field to Grow Up

Summary: A field-level manifesto arguing that data management and computer science must mature beyond a strained conference-centric ecosystem. Reframes declining resources, disciplinary competition, and CS’s identity crisis as incentives to reinvent research culture and advocacy. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10228
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,722 | 5.86%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1921070

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@article{ailamaki_vldb10,
        title = {{Time for Our Field to Grow Up}},
        author = {Ailamaki, Anastassia and Haas, Laura and Jagadish, HV and Maier, David and Özsu, Tamer and Winslett, Marianne},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        pages = {1658},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1921070},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1921070},
        year = {2010}
}

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