Codd Award Lecture 2023: A Broader Perspective On Declarativity

A short talk given at the awards ceremony, SIGMOD 2023. The talk advocates for adapting Codd's tradition of declarative programming beyond relational databases to the full breadth of computing. QR codes are given to a few exemplary resources along the way from my team's work.

Thanks are given to family, mentors, students and postdocs as well.

Transcript

1. A Broader Perspective
   on Declarativity
   Codd Award Talk SIGMOD 2023
   JOE HELLERSTEIN
   

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2. Codd’s Lesson
   Formalize specification;
   automate implementation.
   

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3. A Broader
   Perspective
   Formalize specification;
   automate implementation.
   

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4. Declarative Specification is the Future
   

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5. Relational Databases were an Artificial Limitation
   

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6. The Lesson Extends — Data is Everywhere
   

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7. Declarative Networking
   CACM 11/2009
   

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8. Declarative Data Science & Machine Learning
   

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9. Declarative Programming for the Cloud
   Relational databases were invented
   to hide how data is laid out
   and how queries are executed.
   The cloud was invented
   to hide how computing resources are laid out
   and how computations are executed.
   

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10. Declarative Programming for the Cloud
    

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11. What About Generative AI?
    programming
    INTERACTION
    

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12. The Narrow Waist
    

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13. What About Generative AI?
    programming
    INTERACTION
    

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14. Predictive
    Interaction
    CIDR 2015
    

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15. Innovation is speeding up, but the continuity is real.
    

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16. 16
    GRATITUDES
    

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17. 17
    Deep Roots
    (family photos omitted)
    

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18. 18
    Research Advisors
    Meichun Hsu Hamid Pirahesh Mike Stonebraker Jeff Naughton
    

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19. 19
    Faculty Mentors
    Mike Stonebraker Robert Wilensky Christos Papadimitriou David Culler
    

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20. 20
    Berkeley DB Colleagues
    Mike Stonebraker Mike Franklin
    Alvin Cheung Natacha Crooks Joey Gonzalez Aditya Parameswaran
    

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21. 21
    I have learned much from my teachers
    and even more from my friends,
    but from my students
    I have learned more than from all of them.
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    ת
    PIRKEI AVOT
    

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22. 22
    Marcel Kornacker Vijayshankar Raman Megan Thomas Amol Deshpande Sam Madden Mehul Shah Boon Thau Loo
    Fred Reiss Ryan Huebsch David Chu (1) Alexandra Meliou Tyson Condie Daisy Zhe Wang Kuang Chen
    Azza Abouzied Sean Kandel Neil Conway Peter Alvaro Peter Bailis Vikram Sreekanti Chenggang Wu
    Yifan Wu Michael Whittaker Johann Schleier-Smith Rolando Garcia David Chu (2) Shadaj Laddad Conor Power Chris Douglas
    PhD
    Students
    

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23. 23
    Haryadi Gunawi Eugene Wu Jose Faleiro Mae Milano Tiemo Bang
    Post-Docs
    

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24. 24
    Jeff Heer Sean Kandel Adam Wilson
    Fellow Wranglers
    

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25. 25
    Home Team
    Home Team
    (family photos omitted)
    

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26. Credits hellerstein@berkeley.edu
    @joe_hellerstein
    2
    Edward Codd photo: IBM
    Midjourney
    Adobe Photoshop Beta
    DALL-E
    Microsoft Powerpoint
    

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27. Thank you!
    

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28. 28
    A note on imagery
    Edward Codd, database pioneer and Turing Award winner, has long been an inspiration to many of us in computing. Outside of the
    classic IBM photo on the opening slides, the remaining images in this deck were generated via AI based on that photo. These were
    not intended to be faithful representations of Dr. Codd (indeed, that was not really possible with the publicly-available tools), but
    rather visual representations for the ongoing impact of his work on computer science.
    With respect,
    Joe Hellerstein, June 22, 2023
    

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