Video of Sam Arch 🇦🇺 's talk from NYC Systems August 2024 is now up! Dear UDFs, I Broke Up With You, But Now I'm Ready To Give You A Second Chance. Will You Take Me Back? Sincerely, SQL youtube.com/watch?v=XMIEkn…

Congrats to CS Prof Ihab Ilyas on receiving the 2024 IEEE Canada - IEEE Region 7 C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award! This honour recognizes his groundbreaking work in developing large-scale machine learning systems for data integration, data cleaning and knowledge construction. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ihab-ilya…

Quoth Andy Pavlo (@[email protected]), the most famous professor of databaseology: "If I was a developer that was already using Postgres + DuckDB in my stack and I wanted to be able to combine the two together, I would choose pg_duckdb" theregister.com/2024/08/20/pos…

Truly honored to be named fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. University of Waterloo has been an amazing place for innovation, mentorship and collaboration! I am grateful to all my students, colleagues and collaborators over the past 20 years. Waterloo Mathematics Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science

pretty sure one of these does not belong, but thanks TIME 🤔