7 Secrets That My Mother Didn't Tell Me

Summary: VLDB Women in Database Research Award talk; seven secrets shaping successful data-management research, highlighting fundamental directions pursued amid gender dynamics. Explains how personal and professional trajectories enable pursuing those research agendas in databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11699
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,537 | 7.13%
DOI: 10.14778/3137765.3137835

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Authors

1. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{milo_vldb17,
        title = {{7 Secrets That My Mother Didn't Tell Me}},
        author = {Milo, Tova},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {12},
        doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137835},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137835},
        year = {2017}
}

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