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Our ML4Sys and Sys4ML workshop has been accepted to BTW 2025 🎉 Submit your one-page abstracts by December 3 and join us in Bamberg, Bavaria! luthramanisha.github.io/ML4Sys-and-Sys… Big shoutout to Manisha Luthra for organizing! cc Matthias Boehm

We're excited to announce that the VLDB Summer School will take place from Monday, 28th of July, to Thursday, 31st of July, 2025 at the University of Wroclaw, in Poland! 🇵🇱 More details to follow soon ☀️

We are excited to announce the 2nd ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models in 2025, 18-21 March in Amsterdam. This time, we have 250 seats available. Secure your spot! ✨ 🔗 Visit ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/ellis/events/2… 🚀 Apply forms.gle/Lhzmkyqje6rva9…

Last chance to register for CIDR 2025 in Amsterdam!

2025 has not started yet, but we are already preparing for ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026. Round 1 will start on 10 Jan 2025. The 2026 Call for Research Papers can be found here: 2026.sigmod.org/calls_papers_s…. We are looking forward to many great submissions. Sudeepa Roy & Carsten Binnig (PC co-chairs)

CMT for round 1 of ACM SIGMOD 2026 is now open. SIGMOD/PODS 2025 2026 has a two-step submission process: all authors must have a registered CMT account with an ORCID & completed conflict of interest declarations by the abstract submission deadline (10 Jan 2025, 11:59 PM AoE).

Klasse! 🤩 Darmstadt gehört zu den Top Fünf der Gründerstädte in Deutschland. 🎉 hessenschau.de/wirtschaft/top…

Es soll ein CERN für KI geben 🤩F.A.Z. exklusiv: Brüssel plant Megafabriken für die Künstliche Intelligenz via Frankfurter Allgemeine faz.net/1.10253508?pre…

Some learnings from consistent sleep tracking: * Alcohol isn't worth it (not even a single glass) * Travel & Jetlag (9h time diff) are challenging, even w/ a good protocol * Late work (touching laptop within 2h of sleep onset) isn't ideal

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DaMoN - The 21st International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware will be co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2025. The submission deadline is March 14th, 2025. Checkout the website for further instructions. damon-db.org

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Die KI #Deepseek rüttelt die Tech-Welt auf – wie sie funktioniert und wieso das eine Chance gerade für Deutschland ist, diskutieren Alexander Armbruster und Carsten Knop mit KI-Professor Kristian Kersting (TU Darmstadt hessian.AI): faz.net/podcasts/f-a-z…

Germans living abroad: last chance to register for the upcoming election is *tomorrow* (2 Feb 2025): auswaertiges-amt.de/de/service/269…

📢📢VLDB 2026 will have a ShadowPC! Apply at forms.office.com/e/XYihKj4UKq by March 1! Great opportunity for folk who are new to the data management community and want to gain experience with paper reviewing. For more info, see the application form. Chairs: Zsolt István, Tianzheng Wang , & I.

Hesse plans major cuts to university funding. This article, featuring my colleague Stefan Roth (TU Darmstadt), highlights the serious consequences. It risks widening the gap with states like Bavaria & Baden-Württemberg—and with leading high-tech nations: bit.ly/44prCWO