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Navigating the Future of CIDR: A Call for Innovation and Rigor

In this insightful piece, Michael Stonebraker offers crucial advice to the organizers of CIDR as they steer the conference away from the pitfalls of traditional styles like SIGMOD/VLDB. Stonebraker emphasizes the urgency of rewarding scholarship grounded in narrow ideas, maintaining high standards by dismissing subpar papers, and fostering an environment of innovation. With suggestions like shifting to demo-only or poster-only formats and the importance of swift decision-making by a small organizing committee, he argues that these strategies will ensure CIDR remains a vibrant venue for cutting-edge discourse.

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Navigating the Future of CIDR: A Call for Innovation and Rigor

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  1. CIDR is in danger of losing its way:My Advice to Weikum, Hellerstein and FranklinbyMichael Stonebraker

  2. Program Committees in our Field • Reward scholarship on narrow ideas • Trash “loosy goosey” papers • Trash anything half-baked • Trash anything that resembles a “war story” • Operate by consensus Net result: SIGMOD/VLDB style conferences with paper sessions full of LPUs, of interest to 10 people in the world

  3. How Has CIDR Avoided this Fate So Far? • Slanted selection of PC members • Specific “non-SIGMOD” reviewing guidelines • PC is advisory – organizers make actual decisions • And one of them reads every paper • And the organizers have not operated by consensus • E.g. PC reviews sometimes ignored

  4. CIDR Leadership is Being Passed On • So how to avoid the SIGMODification of CIDR? • Answer: double-blind reviewing (just kidding)

  5. My Real Advice to the “New Gray Beards” • Put your own mark on the conference • E.g. might make sense to move to “demo-only” on the theory that “you have nothing to say if you can’t show it” • E.g. might make sense to move to “poster-only” on the theory that this fosters discussion • YGIGH (your good idea goes here)

  6. My Real Advice to the “New Gray Beards” • Ruthlessly ignore reviewer opinions • This is really crucial • Don’t leave Asilomar • Enables a 3 person organizing committee – who can make decisions quickly and easily • Figure out some solution to “paper overload” • Which is very likely to descend on CIDR

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