| Date | Topic | Readings | Presenter |
| 8/20 | Organizational Meeting | ||
| 8/22 | Background | [AB87] | Hosking |
| 8/27 | (cont.) | Hosking | |
| 8/29 | Early history | Persistence [ABC  83, AM85] | Ricardo |
| 9/3 | Objects [BZ87] | Sailesh | |
| 9/5 | Object stores | ObServer [HZ87] | Aria |
| 9/10 | Mneme [Mos90] | Pavel | |
| 9/12 | Data models | Issues [BCG 87] | Liza |
| 9/17 | Schema evolution [SZ86, PS87, LH90] | Melli | |
| 9/19 | Languages | Argus [WL85] | Sheng-Yih |
| 9/24 | VBase [AH87] | Shiva | |
| Avalon/C++ [DHW88] | Kumar | ||
| 9/26 | O++ [AG89a, AG89b, LD92] | Wes | |
| 10/1 | E [RC90, RCS93] | Peeyush | |
| 10/3 | Fibonacci [ABGO95] | Sudipto | |
| 10/7 | No class: October break | ||
| 10/10 | PJava [AJDS96] | Aurobindo | |
| 10/15 | OODBs | Iris [FBC 87] | Jeydev |
| 10/17 | O  [LRV88, D 90] | Sheng-Yih | |
| 10/22 | Orion [KGBW90] | Liza | |
| 10/24 | GemStone [PSM87, BOS91] | Shiva | |
| 10/29 | ObjectStore [LLOW91] | Ricardo | |
| 10/31 | Implementation | Virtual memory primitives [AL91, HM93] | Fan |
| 11/5 | Swizzling [Mos92, KK95] | Jeydev | |
| 11/7 | Texas [SKW92, WK92] | Shi | |
| 11/12 | RVM [SMK 94a] | Linda | |
| 11/14 | QuickStore [WD94, WD95] | Sudipto, Shi | |
| 11/19 | Shore [CDF 94] | Melli | |
| 11/21 | Thor [LAC 96] | Kumar | |
| 11/26 | Persistent DSM | Opal [CLLBH92, CLFL94] | Sailesh |
| 11/28 | No class: Thanksgiving | ||
| 12/3 | Grasshopper [DdBF 94] | Linda | |
| 12/5 | Summary presentations of term projects | ||