Schedule

Date Topic Paper Slides
Aug 20, 2018 Course Introduction
Aug 22, 2018 Video Analytics Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates
Aug 27, 2018 VLDB — No Class
Aug 29, 2018 VLDB — No Class
Sep 3, 2018 Labor Day — No Class
Sep 5, 2018 Video Analytics BlazeIt: Fast Exploratory Video Queries using Neural Networks
Sep 10, 2018 Machine Translation Seq2SQL: Generating Structured Queries from Natural Language using Reinforcement Learning
Sep 12, 2018 Machine Translation SQLNet: Generating Structured Queries From Natural Language Without Reinforcement Learning
Sep 17, 2018 Program Analysis Smelly Relations: Measuring and Understanding Database Schema Quality
Sep 19, 2018 Program Analysis Understanding Database Performance Inefficiencies in Real-world Web Applications
Sep 24, 2018 Project Proposals I
Sep 26, 2018 Project Proposals II
Oct 1, 2018 ML Frameworks TensorFlow: A System for Large-Scale Machine Learning
Oct 3, 2018 Data Vocalization Data Vocalization: Optimizing Voice Output of Relational Data
Oct 8, 2018 Fall Recess — No Class
Oct 10, 2018 Pattern Recognition Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Earthquake Detection: A Case Study of Scaling Data-Driven Science
Oct 15, 2018 Self-Driving DBMSs Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning
Oct 17, 2018 Self-Driving DBMSs Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems
Oct 22, 2018 Video Analytics Focus: Querying Large Video Datasets with Low Latency and Low Cost
Oct 24, 2018 Video Analytics Live video analytics at scale with approximation and delay-tolerance
Oct 29, 2018 Project Updates I
Oct 31, 2018 Project Updates II
Nov 5, 2018 Data Structures The Data Calculator: Data Structure Design and Cost Synthesis from First Principles
Nov 7, 2018 Hardware Management In-RDBMS Hardware Acceleration of Advanced Analytics
Nov 12, 2018 Hardware Management Main Memory Database Systems: An Overview
Nov 14, 2018 Hardware Management Managing Non-Volatile Memory in Database Systems
Nov 19, 2018 Query Optimization Learning State Representations for Query Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Nov 21, 2018 Thanksgiving Recess — No Class
Nov 26, 2018 Query Optimization Learning to Optimize Join Queries With Deep Reinforcement Learning
Nov 28, 2018 Data Analytics Towards a Unified Architecture for in-RDBMS Analytics
Dec 3, 2018 Data Exploration Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversation
Dec 5, 2018 Guest Speaker (Ben Darnell, CockroachDB)
Dec 10, 2018 Project Presentations I
Dec 12, 2018 Project Presentations II

NOTE: The schedule is tentative and is subject to change as the semester progresses.