Peter Bailis Speaks Out on building tools users want to use

Abstract

Welcome to this installment of ACM Sigmod Records series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett and today we're at the 2017 SIGMOD and PODS Conference in Chicago. I have here with me Peter Bailis who's a professor at Stanford University. Peter won the 2017 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation award for his thesis entitled "Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases." Peter's advisors were Joseph Hellerstein, Ion Stoica, and Ali Ghodsi at Berkeley.