Why I like C++? Simple, everyday metaprogramming! Today I was integrating libgit2 (C-API in hourglass-fashion). How to “Avoid Boilerplate by Ad-hoc Wrapping C-APIs in C++ Function Templates”: craft.do/s/ZVtSl7QsS4eT…

Please join us Thursday (12/5) at 2pm BST for Luis Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa, talk "Kauri: BFT Consensus with Pipelined Tree-Based Dissemination and Aggregation" lsds.doc.ic.ac.uk/content/kauri-…

Please join us Thursday (19/5) at 3:15pm BST for Peter Boncz, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, talk "FSST: fast random-access string compression" lsds.doc.ic.ac.uk/content/fsst-f…

Triggered by a question: if you have published in SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE or EDBT, you are a DB person. PLDI, POPL, ASPLOS, CC or CGO make you a compiler person. If you are either and looking for a postdoc position, apply! (SOSP/OSDI-crowd welcome too): imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti…

Please join us Thursday (26/5) at 2 pm BST for Chi Wang, Microsoft Research, talk "Chi Wang, Microsoft Research" lsds.doc.ic.ac.uk/content/flaml-…

Reminder about these PhD position, open internationally.

We are looking for a PostDoc🎓 at our group at Computer Science, TU Darmstadt to help us build cool projects with FPGAs in Databases. You will get lots of freedom, the salary is competitive, and the work environment is international and vibrant. Deadline: July 31st tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/k…

In Memoriam Prof. Dr. M.L. (Martin) Kersten (1953-2022), fellow of CWI and emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Amsterdam. Sadly, he passed away on July 6, 2022. cwi.nl/news/2022/in-m… MonetDB Team CWI DA

Martin embodied the idea of “going to the moon, not because it is easy but because it is hard.” A natural scientist: curious, persistent and just the right amount of whacky. A great loss for data management research.

As academics, it's our job not only to inform and shape policy, but to challenge it as well. In fact, maybe a government that doesn't want to hear criticism is a government that really ought to be scrutinised a wee bit more closely. [7/7]

I am perplexed and saddened that at a time when eco-friendly traveling is more important than ever and Germany is governed by red, green and yellow parties, German trains (Deutsche Bahn Personenverkehr) have become an embarrassment. I think ministers need to stop flying domestically.

🦄 Thank you for being our Guest, Holger Pirk, and for your inspiring talk: Bring Your own Kernel! Constructing High-Performance Data Management Systems from Components Holger Pirk Imperial College London Matthias Boehm

🌟🏆 We're thrilled to announce the winners of the ARI Best Artifact Award! 🎉 The prestigious honor goes to "JEDI: These aren't the JSON documents you're looking for…" by Thomas Hütter et al. Mike Carey Chen Li 👏🔥 Congrats to the team behind this submission! 🏅

The honourable mention award goes to "HypeR: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach" by sainyam galhotra Sudeepa Roy Babak Salimi et al. 🙌💡Kudos to the entire team! 🌠

Check out more details at sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/…. The ARI committee that picked these winners is led by Manos Athanassoulis and Holger Pirk ✨

Attending #vldb2024? Interested in the future of Database System Architectures? Check out our work on “BOSS - An Architecture for Database Kernel Composition” in session G3: Query Processing today at 15:30.

Last non-workshop day of #vldb2024! Are you working on data imputation or in-system generative AI? You might be interested in our work on “Hardware-Efficient Data Imputation through DBMS Extensibility”. See the talk in session D8: Query Processing, today at 15:30.

Happy to receive a best paper award at #vldb2024 for our work on “BOSS - An Architecture for Database Kernel Composition”. Congratulations to contributors and thanks to the committee. Check out the project at boss.lsds.uk

Thrilled to share that Imperial's Computing researchers won the Best Paper Award at VLDB 2024 in Guangzhou! Their paper "BOSS - An Architecture for Database Kernel Composition" introduces a novel approach to database systems. imperial.ac.uk/news/255953/im… #Computing #STEM #Data