Files With Semantics

Summary: Reexamines the conventional file as a programming-language concept and data-processing primitive, arguing its semantics are unsatisfactory. Proposes a new file concept that mimics an intelligent archivist rather than a filing cabinet, reshaping data-management semantics and access. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2097
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1976
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,566 | 0.07%
DOI: 10.1145/509383.509396

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Authors

1. N. Minsky (Rutgers University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{minsky_sigmod76,
        title = {{FILES WITH SEMANTICS}},
        author = {Minsky, N.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '76},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509383.509396},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509383.509396},
        year = {1976}
}

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