CS6320 covers the foundations, design, and construction of large-scale data-centric computing systems, with a special focus on turning declarative specifications and queries into scalable systems. I will present the foundations of declarative languages and the implications of these foundations on the difficulty of solving problems specified using such languages (e.g., database queries; or constraint satisfaction problems in AI; or model checking problems in computer aided verification). I will also present the central concepts and algorithms used for building scalable systems for processing declarative languages. This includes parallel processing (e.g., in a map/reduce-style framework) and automata-based data stream processing techniques. Moreover, I will show how to engineer declarative languages for a purpose, achieving a good trade-off between expressive power and processing cost, and how to understand and implement optimizing compilers that turn declarative specifications into efficient code that executes them.
The course will be of interest to both systems and theory students. A big part of the grade is based on a research project, where you can choose between a theoretical and a systems project.
THE FIRST LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 2009.
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