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Was it Mike Stonebraker's talk "My 10 Fears about the Future of the DBMS Field"? (2018 Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture, presented at the University of Illino

• fighterpilot 5y ago
  Yeah that's it. Some other notable points from that talk: - He thinks it's not an overly difficult problem to solve. It just needs some grassroots push from a handful of people in each of the top CS departments. It's just that not many are really trying to push for it. (I assume there would be people staked in the current system, though, who want to maintain the status quo.) - Nowadays he sees people trying to split research up into Least Publishable Units in order to maximize the number of papers. - Coming up with Postgres would've been impossible in today's climate since the time it took would entail an insufficient number of papers to get hired or promoted. - He thinks part of the reason that the culture has deteriorated is that Western universities have adopted cultural norms of East Asian universities, for whatever reasons.