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And here are the talks:
Online Science: A talk on the WorldWide Telescope given at UC Santa Cruz (4/10/2002), Databases_Meet_Astronomy_UCSC.ppt (4 MB).
Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering: given at UC Santa Cruz (4/6/2002), Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering_UCSC.ppt (3 MB).
The 1k$ Terabyte short talk at IBM on current status of cheap disks and why tape is dead. Disks_Economics_April_2002.ppt (1 MB).
Online Science: A talk on the WorldWide Telescope given at IBM (4/5/2002) and WDAS in Paris (3/21/2002), Databases_Meet_Astronomy_WDAS.ppt (2 MB).
Online Science (== world wide telescope and SkyServer) talk at U. Washington, Seattle 2/26/2002, Databases_Meet_Astronomy_UW.ppt (5 MB).
Talk about SkyServer @ Micrisoft Research TechFest in Redmond 2/22/2002, WorldWideTelescopeTecFest.ppt (1 MB).
SQLserver large databases and .Net: Talk at SQL the Max! user group conference 2/14/2002, PetabyteDatabasesSql+.Net.ppt (6 MB).
Storage Bricks Talk at FAST Monterey 1/29/2002, Gray_Storage_FAST.ppt (2 MB).
Data-Centric Computing talk at HP Labs 11/1/2002, Storage2002.ppt (8 MB).
Mining the Sky: Buiding the World Wide Telescope: SC2001, 11/14/2001, WSU, JHU, UCI ppt (4 MB).
In Search of Petabyte Databases (with Tony Hey), HPTS 2001, 10/16/2001, ppt (1 MB).
Database Meet Astronomy (more db stuff), Brandeis, 10/12/2001, ppt (4 MB)
Databases Meet Astronomy , RPI, 10/10/2001 & MIT 10/11/2001, ppt (4 MB)
Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering, CMU, 10/9/2001, ppt (4 MB)
Storage Service Providers a discussion & debate at VLDB2001, Rome, 9/12/2001 ppt (700kB).
Store Everything, Online, and In a Database, and Give Two Examples, talk at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. 8/29/01, ppt (6MB)
Information at Your Fingertips: TerraService and Sky Server, Microsoft Faculty Summit at Redmond, WA. (Tom Barclay and Alex Szalay)at Microsoft in Redmond. 7/23/01, ppt (4MB).
Talk on Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering at Microsoft in Redmond. 7/11/01, ppt (3MB).
Talk on Databaseses meet Astronomy at Microsoft in Redmond. 7/10/01 ppt (2MB).
Talk on Internet Availabilty at High Dependabilty Computing Consortium. 5/7/01, (repeated at Stanford 11/8/2001) ppt (2MB).
Talk at University Illinois Urbana: DataBases Meet Astronomy. 4/24/01, ppt (1.3MB).
Talk at University Illinois Urbana: Rules of thumb for data engineering. 4/23/01, ppt . (3.3MB)
Talk at GriPhyN (Grid Physics Network) all hands meeting at ISI in LA on 12 April 2001 that repeats and expands on the Science Data Center talk below: "Put everything online and in a database" 4/12/01, ppt (1.5MB).
Talk at Science Data Centers on "Put everything online and in a database" 3/23/01, ppt (1.5MB).
Talk at Internet Archive "Born
Digital" symposium on publishing petabytes. 3/12/01, InternetArchive_ManagingBornDigitalData.ppt
(1MB).
Talk at NRC Bio-Data study group on
managing large datasets 3/8/01, NRC_Biodata.ppt
(70KB).
Talk at Microsoft with Bill Laing on Scaleabilty Terminology, Windows, and Storage Bricks 3/7/01, Scaleability_Teminology.ppt
(4MB).
Talk at Xerox Parc:
Databases meet Astronomy 3/1/01,
repeated at UC Berkeley on 3/19/2001 Databases_Meet_Astronomy.ppt (1MB).
Tele-talk at
European Media Lab 2/10/01, EML_PBDB.ppt (2MB).
Talk at Stanford DB seminar on
building Petabyte data stores " 11/17/00, USC_Building_PetaByte_Data_Stores.ppt (9MB).
Talk at UC Berkeley on Fault Tolerance
" 11/9/00, UCBerkeley_Gray_FT_Avialiability_talk.ppt
(0.6MB).
Talk at NASA Goddard on storage trends
and on interesting applications (TerraServer, EOS/DIS, Sloan Sky Survey)" 9/21/00, UCBerkeley_Gray_FT_Avialiability_talk.ppt
(9.7MB).
Talk at Virutual
Observatories of the Future Conference at Cal Tech on Technology Forecast for
Huge Arcives." 6/12/00, VOF_Pasadena.ppt
(3.5MB).
Talk at NCSA on "things I'v been doing lately" 4/15/00, NCSA_Part2.ppt
(3MB).
Standard metrics for system availabilty IFIP
working group on system dependabilty benchmarks
3/1/00, HighAvailabitySystemsStandardsEfforts.ppt (50 KB).
Rules of Thumb in
Data Engineering ICDE 2000, San
Diego, 3/1/00, Rules_of_Thumb_in_Data_Engineering.ppt (3 MB).
The Future of Data Mining: panel
discussion at ICDE ICDE
2000, San Diego,
3/3/00, Gray_KDM_ICDE2000.ppt (82 KB).
Preliminary PITAC NGI report to the
Congress PITAC presentation,
Washington DC, 2/25/00, PITAC_NGI_00.ppt (190 KB).
Turing lecture at U. Alberta at
Edmonton (10/13/99) UC Berkeley (11/3/99) Cornell
(11/16/99), U. Mass Amherst (11/18/99) CMU (11/20/99)
UC Santa Cruz (1/11/00)Toronto (3/18/00) Wisconsin (3/19/00)
NCSA(4/15/00) Turing2.ppt (6 MB).
What Happens When Discs are Supercomputers?
talk at IBM Almaden IBM_Almaden_on_Storage.ppt (2 MB) (12/1/99).
Building Petabyte Databases: talk at
UC San Diego Supercomputer Center (10/27/99) PB_SanDiego.ppt (10 MB) (10/14/99).
What Happens When Discs are
Supercomputers? Keynote at NetStore99 Seattle NetStore99.ppt (2 MB) (10/14/99).
A Personal view of Microsoft Research
(and my work) (talk at State Farm,Reading
England, and Frankfurt Germany (videos are missing)).
A_Personal_View_of_MSR2.ppt
(9 MB) (10/3/99, 9/4-8/99).
Talk on SQL Server, Scalability, and
MSR at Compass99 (SQL Server User's Group) Gray_Compass99.ppt (12 MB) (10/2/99).
Talk at High Performance Transaction
Processing Workshop at Asilomar: How High is High
Performance Transaction Processing? HPTS99.ppt (2 MB) (9/29/99).
Transaction Processing Concepts and
Techniques: class at Stanford with Reuter, Gawlick, Maliaka,
Harkey, Hope, Bernstein, Mohan, Levine,
/WICS_99_TP/
(8/1/99..8/5/99).
TeraByte Sort Trophy award at
Compaq/Tandem. Tandem_Terabyte.ppt (2 MB)
(7/7/99).
Turing Talk at SIGMOD: What Next? Some remaining IT problems.
Gray_Turing_SIGMOD.ppt (5 MB) (6/1/99).
Telepresnce
as an overarching research
agenda at Potomac Institute, Washington DC, (5/28/99) (with 70MB of videos and
sound clips) Potomac_Talk.ppt (2.5MB).
Turing Talk at FCRC: What Next? Some remaining IT problems.
Gray_Turing_FCRC.ppt (5 MB) or Gray_Turing_FCRC.pdf
(2.8 MB) or Gray_Turing_FCRC.htm (30 KB at a
time, 7 MB in all) (5/4/99).
Talk at Nortel, Santa Clara, CA on
technology trends and TerraServer Nortel.ppt (6 MB)
(4/20/99).
Talk at ISAT, Redmond, WA on Heisenbugs: A Probabilistic Approach to Availabilty
ISAT_Gray_FT_Avialiability_talk.ppt (400 KB) (4/20/99).
Talk at IBM Santa Teresa Lab., CA on
TerraServer, TPC, Sort ibm_stl.ppt (5 MB) (4/1/99).
Talk at Intel, Dupont, WA on Scaleabiltiy,
Intel_Dupont.ppt (6 MB) (3/5/99).
Lecture at U Tokyo on PITAC report,
Turing lecture, 5-minute rule, and Sorting, Gray_SQL7_Tokyo.ppt (1.8 MB) (1/22/99).
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 launch in
Tokyo, Gray_SQL7_Tokyo.ppt.ppt (8 MB)
(1/21/99).
Talk at Los Alamos National Labs on NT
Scaleabilty research,Gray_LANL.ppt.ppt (1.8 MB) (12/17/98).
Overview of BARC to Microsoft
Research, BARC_MSR_Overview_98Q3.ppt (11 MB) (10/21/98).
Scaleable NT, talk
to Compaq Storage Fellowship (Colorado Springs) CompaqStorageFellowship.ppt 9MB
(10/20/98).
Progress on Scaleable Servers, talk at MSR Cambridge England
Cambridge_MAPS.ppt 4MB (10/13/98).
Microsoft Research Overview, talk at
European Media Lab at Heidelberg Germany (same as NSF talk (6/25/98) below) NSF_Talk.ppt (2.5MB) (10/12/98).
Laws of Cyberspace, talk at
International University, German 1998_Laws.ppt 1MB (10/10/98).
The Rebirth of Database Machines, talk
by Dina Bitton and Jim Gray at VLDB'98 (invited
lecture for "best paper of 1988" award) VLDB98.ppt
(8/27/98).
IO metrics and CyberBricks talk at
Storage Technology Corporation in Denver STK_Talk_Denver.ppt
(8 MB) (8/13/98)
DARPA/NT Workshop talk
on Microsoft scalability projects DARPA_Scaleable_Overview_98.ppt
(8 MB) (8/6/98)
Vanguard Group talk on CyberBricks vanguard_7_98.ppt ( 12
MB) (7/27/98)
Talk to DELL technical folks about
BARC and how we could cooperate on research BARC_DELL_Overview_97.ppt
( 12 MB) (7/14/98)
NSF talk on Microsoft Research
(without the videos and sound clips) NSF_Talk.ppt (2.5MB)
(6/25/98). Sound and videos can be found at
/Talks/ForNSFtalk/*.*. For example Gordon
Bell's first video clip is at
/Talks/ForNSFtalk/movie3a.avi. The full list
of file names is daisy.wav, faces_short.mpg,
flowsmall.mpg, hal.wav,
movie007.avi, movie3a.avi, movie3b.avi, movie3c.avi, movie4a.avi, movie4b.avi,
movie6.avi, scar.wav, sound005.wav, synthvoice.wav, vision.mpg
Keynote talk at Microsoft Federal
Enterprise Day (a marketing event) that launched the TeraServer Microsoft_Federal_Enterprise_Day_Keynote.ppt
(8.6MB) (6/24/98)
Disk Architecture Directions: Put Everything In the Disk Controller, Talk at NASD workshop
Gray_NASD_Talk.ppt (.8MB) (6/8/98)
Database Research Directions, SIGMOD
Panel SIGMOD_98_DB_Research_Directions.ppt
(50 KB)
TerraServer Overview: An expanded
version of the SIGMOD demo that Bill Gates gave at SIGMOD 98 in Seattle Public_TerraServer_Talk.ppt (3.2 MB)
(6/1/98)
An Overview of BARC, Microsoft NYC
Sales office BARC_Overview_Q1_98_public.ppt
(8.5MB) (5/6/98), similar talk given at NCR, Dayton (5/19/98)
Scalable & Distributed Computing
with CyberBricks, ATT Labs ATT_98.ppt.ppt (8.4MB)
(5/4/98)
Scalable & Distributed Computing
with CyberBricks, Stanford Stanford_98.ppt.ppt
(11.3MB) (4/29/98)
Scalable & Distributed Computing
with CyberBricks, IPPS/SPPS @ Orlando Parallel&DistributedProcessing_DB.ppt.ppt
(8.5MB) (4/1/98)
Dell Customers, SF, On NTclusters (MSCS)
MSCS_DELL.ppt
(1.8MB) (3/19/98)
Talk VLDB Summit on VLDB progress and
SQL Server 7.0 preview, Los Angeles, VLDB_Summit_98.ppt
(5MB) (3/5/98)
Three Mini-Lectures at USC, Datacube.ppt
(200 KB), Replica.ppt (300 KB),
FiveMinuteRule.ppt (300KB), 3/4/98
SixteenLaws.ppt (400KB)
Talk on Microsoft Research at SQL 7.0
Workshop, Los Angeles, SQL_7_Workshop.ppt
(8MB) (2/26/98)
Industrial R&D Investment:
presentation to NRC Panel NRC_R&D_Investment.ppt
(0.6MB) (2/9/98)
BARC overview talk
at Microsoft NorCal BARC_97_12_NorCal.ppt
(4MB) (12/14/97)
Talk on high-performance Sequential IO
on NT at Microsoft Redmond. Sequential_IO.ppt
(1.5 MB) (12/1/97)
What Happens When Storage and
processing and bandwidth are free and infinite? (talk
at OGI and IOPADS)IOPADS.ppt (2MB) (11/11/97,
11/17/97)
George Spix's
Crypto Song (copyright, by George)
Crypto.asf
(2MB)
TerraServer talk by Tom Barclay (and
me) at UC Berkeley TerraServer_UC.ppt (2MB)
(11/10/97)
NT Scalability talk
at SUN and SGI NT_Scaleability_SUN_SGI.ppt
(7.2MB) (10/13/97, 11/6/97)
Building Petabyte DBs
talk to UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley
Building_Petabyte_Databases
(UC).ppt (1MB) (10/10/97)
NT Scalability talk
MS Enterprise Seminar Scaleability_Enterprise_Seminar.ppt
(6.4MB) (10/1/97)
NT Scalability talk to NT-Internet conferences
ScalabililtyNT-Internet.ppt (8/15/97)
NT Scalability talk
to USENIX conferences Scalability USENIX.ppt
(8/12/97)
NT Scalability talk
to VARs GrayNTUnix.ppt (8MB) (7/12/97)
Parallel database Systems talk UW_Data_Mine_Parallel_DB.ppt (1MB)
(7/9/97)
FT NT talk at FTCS , (3MB )Seattle, (6/24/97)
Cyberbricks Talk at SF Regional ACM (7MB) (6/18/97)
Scaleable Computing Talk (7MB!), MIT (5/23/97)
DB Expo, San Francisco, Panel on
Database Past and Futures (100KB). 5/14/97
Building
Petabyte Databases
and Storage Metrics (768KB) talk at CMU (5/3/97)
Building Petabyte Databases
and
Wolfpack talk at VLDB Summit (1MB) (5/1/97)
Fault Tolerance Panel (143KB) at Uniform 4/13/97
Scaleable Computing (318KB) Panel at UNFORM 4/13/97
Future of Distributed
Systems talk (3.6 MB) at UNIFORM 4/12/97
Transaction Processing Panel at
UNIFORM 4/12/97.
Cyberbricks
Talk at DEC/NT Wizards conference (6.3 MB)
4/7/97
Transaction Processing
Performance Benchmarks talk at San Francisco State, (1.7 MB)
3/4/97
Cyberbricks
Talk at Intel/Portland, (6.2 MB) 2/4/97:
Trasaction
Cyberbricks
Talk at Simon Frazer
Univeristy, (6.6MB) 1/16/97:
Scaleable Computing talk
at SAP conference, (3.8 MB) 12/7/96
Scaleable Computing talk at Microsoft PDC, (2.6 MB)11/6/96
Distributed
Systems talk at Microsoft PDC, (3.5 MB)11/4/96