Talks

Donald Kossmann

Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms: A Data Management Perspective. AnHai Doan, Michael J. Franklin, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska; VLDB Conference, Seattle, USA, August 2011.
What is new in the cloud - A Database Perspective. Keynote for the Eurosys 2011 Conference, Salzburg, Austria, April 2011. A paper that summarizes the main ideas of this talk is available here.
Crescando: Predictable Performance for Unpredictable Workloads. IBM DB2 Community Meeting, Böblingen, Germany, September 2010.
Building a Web Application without a Database Systems. Keynote for the EDBT 2008 Conference, Nantes, France, March 2008.
Predicate-based Indexing of Annotated Data. SAP, Palo Alto, CA, USA, March 2007.
Testing Database Applications. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, March 2007.

Databases in the Cloud. Avaloq Developers Conference. Zürich, Switzerland. June, 2011.
SwissBox: revisiting the data processing software stack. Invited talk at the Department of Computer Science, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, December 2010.
Gustavo Alonso and Bettina Kemme: Database Replication. Talk given for the 2010 VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award. VLDB 2010, Singapore, September 2010.
Cloud computing and its impact on Computer Science. Keynote, XV Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos, JISBD 2010, Valencia, Spain, September, 2010.
Challenges and Opportunities for formal specifications in Service Oriented Architectures. Keynote talk at Petri Nets 2008 (29th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency), Xi'an, China, June 2008.
Myths and realities of Sensor Network Data Management. Keynote talk at DMSN'07 (4th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks, at VLDB 2007), Vienna, Austria, September, 2007.
SwissQM: a Virtual Machine for Sensor Networks. Talk given at The University of Waterloo (Canada), University of Darmstadt (Germany), and the University of Bolzano (Italy), 2007.