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Award photo

mjc — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:13:03 +0000

Here is a photo of me, holding a cardboard box containing the award…

Thesis

mjc — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:38:52 +0000

Surprisingly (to me, at least), I’ve had some requests for copies of my thesis, so here it is:

Just remember that when I wrote it, I expected an audience of 4: my adviser plus three examiners…

If you want to check up on me, here are the code changes I made — this patch applies to a MySQL 5.1.26-rc tree with the InnoDB Plugin 1.0.1 unpacked:

innodb-serializable-snapshot-isolation.diff.gz

As always, I’m happy to take comments or questions.

Prize in the Press

mjc — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:05:07 +0000

The University of Sydney announced that I was awarded the CORE dissertation award for my thesis:

Database doctorate provides breakthrough for multiple users

Also picked up by Computerworld and blogged by Alon Halevy, who I was lucky enough to catch up with briefly at ACSW:

Alon Halevy’s Blog: A Trip to Australia

SIGMOD 2008 paper, personal edition

mjc — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:26:04 +0000

I’ve finally added the ACM copyright disclaimer to my SIGMOD 2008 paper, so I can publish it here: real-serializable.pdf. Please refer to this version rather than redistributing.

SIGMOD presentation

mjc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:05:52 +0000

The slides from my SIGMOD presentation last week are here.

SIGMOD 2008 repeatability

mjc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:32:40 +0000

I’ve had some requests for the experiments used in my SIGMOD 2008 paper, Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases, coathored with Uwe Röhm and Alan Fekete.

So here are the details:

The patch against Berkeley DB 4.6.21 implementing our new method of serializable isolation is here: db-4.6.21-safe-si2.diff;
The XML description of experiments uploaded to the repeatability committee is here: exp333.xml; and
Binaries for Linux/AMD64 are here: db-4.6.21-safe-si2-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2.

Please contact me if you have any questions.