Paper withstands “test of time”
Daniel J. Abadi, associate professor of computer science, received the VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award from the Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc. (VLDB), an organization that promotes scholarly work on databases and related fields. The paper “C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS” was published in Proceedings of VLDB in 2005. It proposed a database management system that differed from previous approaches by storing data by column rather than by row, which allows for quicker management of large volumes of data. C-Store was later commercialized by the company Vertica and used by thousands of businesses. Papers that win the award are those that were submitted to the journal VLDB Proceedings ten years earlier and have best met the “test of time”—that is, those that have had the most influence since its publication. How the ideas proposed in the paper have been put into practice are given special emphasis.
Studying cells in suspension
The laboratory of Kathryn Miller-Jensen, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and molecular, cellular & developmental biology, has developed a device designed to make it easier to track changes in cells over a period of time. The team recently published a paper about the mechanism in the journal Integrative Biology.
The device, which fits in the palm of a hand, is essentially two small reservoirs connected by a channel. It is specifically designed for examining cells in suspension—those that float freely in media. Other devices serve a similar purpose, but require tubing, external pumps, and an elaborate process to operate. Ramesh Ramji, a postdoctoral researcher in Miller-Jensen’s lab, came up with the idea for the apparatus after a grad student had trouble studying some cells. The lab has filed a provisional patent on the device, and other labs at Yale are now using the invention.
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