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
2. Codd’s Lesson Formalize specification; automate implementation.
3. A Broader Perspective Formalize specification; automate implementation.
4. Declarative Specification is the Future
5. Relational Databases were an Artificial Limitation
6. The Lesson Extends — Data is Everywhere
7. Declarative Networking CACM 11/2009
8. Declarative Data Science & Machine Learning
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.
10. Declarative Programming for the Cloud
11. What About Generative AI? programming INTERACTION
12. The Narrow Waist
13. What About Generative AI? programming INTERACTION
14. Predictive Interaction CIDR 2015
15. Innovation is speeding up, but the continuity is real.
16. 16 GRATITUDES
17. 17 Deep Roots (family photos omitted)
18. 18 Research Advisors Meichun Hsu Hamid Pirahesh Mike Stonebraker Jeff Naughton
19. 19 Faculty Mentors Mike Stonebraker Robert Wilensky Christos Papadimitriou David Culler
20. 20 Berkeley DB Colleagues Mike Stonebraker Mike Franklin Alvin Cheung Natacha Crooks Joey Gonzalez Aditya Parameswaran
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. פ ר ק י א ב ו ת PIRKEI AVOT
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
23. 23 Haryadi Gunawi Eugene Wu Jose Faleiro Mae Milano Tiemo Bang Post-Docs
24. 24 Jeff Heer Sean Kandel Adam Wilson Fellow Wranglers
25. 25 Home Team Home Team (family photos omitted)
26. Credits hellerstein@berkeley.edu @joe_hellerstein 2 Edward Codd photo: IBM Midjourney Adobe Photoshop Beta DALL-E Microsoft Powerpoint
27. Thank you!
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