Are We Working On The Right Problems ?

Summary: Panel highlights misalignment between database research topics and CIO-prioritized information-system problems. It argues for shift toward practical decision-support, data integration/governance, scalability, security, and deployment in real-world settings. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3101
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,156 | 2.88%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276348

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Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (Informix)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{stonebraker_sigmod98,
        title = {{Are We Working On The Right Problems ?}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276348},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276348},
        year = {1998}
}

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