Abstract:
In this talk, I will examine why database systems today are so difficult to use and identify a set of five pain points. I will describe the work we have been doing in my research group on database usability, and propose a research agenda to address these pain points. In particular, we propose a presentation data model as a formal layer above the logical and physical data model layers in a database system.

Biography:
H. V. Jagadish is Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After earning his PhD from Stanford in 1985, he spent over a decade at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., eventually becoming head of AT&T Labs database research department at the Shannon Laboratory in Florham Park, N.J. He has also served as a Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and as the Shaw Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore.

Professor Jagadish is well-known for his broad-ranging research on information management, and has over 150 major papers and 33 patents. He is a fellow of the ACM ("The First Society in Computing") and a trustee of the VLDB (Very Large DataBase foundation). Among many professional positions he has held, he has previously been an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Database Systems (1992-1995), Program Chair of the ACM SIGMOD annual conference (1996), and Program Chair of the ISMB conference (2005). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.