In this note we briefly summarize the database and distributed computing research we performed in the year 1988. In general terms, our emphasis was on studying and implementing mechanisms for efficient - and - reliable computing and data management. Our work can be roughly divided into 12 categories: load balancing, process migration, information exchange networks, negotiation in federated systems, a stashing file system implementation, probabilistic databases, distributed file comparison, remote backups, document databases, real time database systems, multicast protocols, and a new file system design.