Computers are used less for computing per se than for the management, distribution and analysis of information. Database research thus goes to the heart of computing. Berkeley's database group maintains a long tradition of leadership that began in the early 1970s. Berkeley research projects including INGRES and POSTGRES helped define the research field, and spawned the multi-billion dollar Relational and Object-Relational database industry.

In most of what follows, italics indicate an electronic mail address. Unless otherwise indicated it is at CS.Berkeley.EDU.
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The database management systems research group contains several faculty members. In alphabetical order, they are:
 The following Berkeley faculty perform research in related areas:

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Lauren Bailey (lbailey), Kathy Reyes (kreyes) and Piccola Evans (piccola) are the grants administrators for the database research group.

Husain Muzaffar (husain) is the system administrator for the database research group
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Graduate students Undergraduate students

Edwin Mach
Bryan Fulton
Garrett Jacobson
Devesh Parekh
Eric Shan

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Information about previous courses may be found here.


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