Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data, Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, Robert E. Gruber, 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2006, pp. 205-218.
PADX: Querying large-scale ad hoc data with XQuery, Mary Fernandez, Kathleen Fisher, Robert Gruber, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, Proceedings of PLAN-X 2006: Workshop on Programming Language technologies for XML (2006).
PADS: a Domain-Specific Language for Processing ad hoc Data, Kathleen Fisher, Robert Gruber, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (2005), pp. 295-304.
Robustness Testing and Hardening of CORBA ORB Implementations, Jianto Pan, Philip Koopman, Daniel Siewiorek, Yennun Huang, Robert Gruber, Mimi Ling Jiang, Proceedingsof the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (ICDSN/FTCS) (2001), pp. 141-150.
High-level Constructs in the READY Event Notification System, Robert E. Gruber, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Euthimios Panagos, Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop (EW'98) on Support for Composing Distributed Applications, 1998, pp. 195-202.
Optimism vs. Locking: A Study of Concurrency Control for Client-Server Object-Oriented Databases. Available as Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-708, Robert E. Gruber, 1997.
Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control using Loosely Synchronized Clocks, Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Maheshwari, Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of Data (1995), pp. 23-34.
Replication in the Harp File System, Barbara Liskov, Sanjay Ghemawat, Robert E. Gruber, Paul Johnson, Liuba Shrira, Michael Williams, Proceedings of 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 1991, pp. 226-38.