Report on the DB/IR Panel at SIGMOD 2005 Sihem Amer-Yahia, Pat Case, Thomas Rölleke, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, and Gerhard Weikum   View Paper (PDF)   Return to December 2005, Volume 34, Number 4 Abstract This paper summarizes the salient aspects of the SIGMOD 2005 panel on "Databases and Information Retrieval: Rethinking the Great Divide". The goal of the panel was to discuss whether we should rethink data management systems architectures to truly merge Database (DB) and Information Retrieval (IR) technologies. The panel had very high attendance and generated lively discussions. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery