The future of data(base) education: Is the "cow book" dead?
Summary: Panel on the future of database education and its relation to Data Science; debates CS–DS divergence and how to shape core curricula. Considers who the traditional 'cow book' serves, what topics to prune or add, and how to position database pedagogy for CS leadership amid DS popularity. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Zachary G. Ives (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2. Rachel Pottinger (University of British Columbia)
- 3. Arun Kumar (University of California San Diego)
- 4. Johannes Gehrke (Microsoft)
- 5. Jana Giceva (Technical University of Munich)
BibTeX Citation
@article{ives_vldb21,
title = {{The future of data(base) education: Is the "cow book" dead?}},
author = {Ives, Zachary G. and Pottinger, Rachel and Kumar, Arun and Gehrke, Johannes and Giceva, Jana},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '21},
volume = {14},
number = {12},
pages = {3239--3240},
doi = {10.14778/3476311.3476394},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476311.3476394},
year = {2021}
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| 11,555 | DataEd’22 - 1st International Workshop on Data Systems Education: Bridging Education Practice with Education Research | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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