Winner of 2023 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award is my longtime friend Joe Hellerstein See citation bit.ly/JoeH23 Hearty congrats Joe! List of past recipients bit.ly/EFCInA UC Berkeley EECS ACM SIGMOD #ACMSIGMOD #database ACM SIGMOD/PODS #UCBerkeley

Another piece of news to celebrate is that Suhail Rehman started as an Assistant Instructional Professor at UChicagoCS ! We are beyond thrilled to have him here. We just wrapped up our first quarter teaching our Intro to DBMS Systems.

That’s awesome! Congrats to Raul Castro Fernandez and Peter Pietzuch

More DuckDB goodness! huggingface.co/blog/hub-duckdb

Woot! Excited to have Tian join us!!

"In an unexpected announcement today, Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,”" *unexpected* 🤣 9to5google.com/2023/06/15/goo…

An excellent opportunity to work with the one and only Tian Li!

Please retweet! I am searching for two PhD students and one postdoc for my VIDI grant. We are building a programming model & self-driving dataflow engine for Transactional Stateful Functions. For PhD apply here by 15th July: tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/… Postdoc: drop me an email!

And our first product MotherDuck is out the door! Exciting day for us. Also covered by TechCrunch and SiliconAngle.

.UChicagoCS is expanding with '+9' new faculty members🤯 cs.uchicago.edu/news/uchicago-…

Brett Kavanaugh Rules Against Loan Forgiveness Plan Citing Precedent That All Debts Mysteriously Vanish bit.ly/3JzJL9l

Every heard people say that transactions don’t scale? Curious about how DynamoDB does transactions at massive scale with low latency? Interested in the tradeoffs between different ways of doing distributed transactions? Check out this new paper to see how its done in DynamoDB

Christopher Nolan explains the complex storytelling in MEMENTO (2000).

PSA CIDR deadline will not be pushed back at all.

How Rust handles enums is really awesome. Exhaustive match checking, debug macros, etc really improve code.

Things are pretty ducky here MotherDuck and we're starting to grow the team more. Right now, looking for backend engineers, but keep an eye out for more roles on the team soon. Enjoying duck puns is sadly not on the job requirements--- yet! jobs.ashbyhq.com/MotherDuck

We have a new (assistant/associate-level) data systems faculty position at dasyaITU @ITUkbh. Application deadline **October 8**. More info at linkedin.com/jobs/view/3697… or candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

Check out the workshops colocated with VLDB, starting in just a few hours! (vldb.org/2023/?program-…)