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I’m at the 2009 Conference on Innovative Database Research, an interesting workshop that tries to fit its name by taking work that’s a little too “innovative” for the regular database conferences.
The opening plenary talk is by Jefffrey Heer (built the flare UI toolkit, now a professor at Stanford) on how data analysis can be a [...]

First of all, what’s a good name for these kinds of applications? I am talking about MS Access, FileMaker, 4th Dimension, Kexi and so on. They are not exactly databases (they can be, but they’re more than that), they are not exactly IDEs (they sort of are, but that term is not specific enough), and [...]