The Indiana Center for Database Systems at Purdue University

The Indiana Center for Database Systems (ICDS) at Purdue University has embarked in an ambitious endeavor to become a premiere world-class database research center. This goal is substantiated by the diversity of its research topics, the large and diverse funding base, and the steady publication trend in top conferences and journals. ICDS was founded with an initial grant from the State of Indiana Corporation of Science and Technology in 1990. Since then it has grown to now have 9 faculty members and about 30 total researchers. This report describes the major research projects underway at ICDS as well as efforts to move research toward practice.