@conference {300486,
	title = {Amber: Decoupling User Data from Web Applications},
	booktitle = {HotOS},
	year = {2015},
	address = {Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland},
	abstract = {User-generated content is becoming increasingly common\&nbsp;on the Web, but current web applications isolate\&nbsp;their users{\textquoteright} data, enabling only restricted sharing and\&nbsp;cross-service integration. We believe users should be able\&nbsp;to share their data seamlessly between their applications\&nbsp;and with other users. To that end, we propose Amber, an\&nbsp;architecture that decouples users{\textquoteright} data from applications,\&nbsp;while providing applications with powerful global queries\&nbsp;to find user data. We demonstrate how multi-user applications,\&nbsp;such as e-mail, can use these global queries to\&nbsp;efficiently collect and monitor relevant data created by\&nbsp;other users. Amber puts users in control of which applications\&nbsp;they use with their data and with whom it is shared,\&nbsp;and enables a new class of applications by removing the\&nbsp;artificial partitioning of users{\textquoteright} data by application.},
	url = {http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/amber.pdf},
	author = {Tej Chajed and Jon Gjengset and Jelle van den Hooff and M. Frans Kaashoek and James Mickens and Robert Morris and Nickolai Zeldovich}
}
