We often complain about bad reviewing in database conferences, but fail to appreciate or celebrate good reviewing. One of the reviewers for this VLDB'18 paper found an intricate bug in a critical proof—and worked with us through a revision+shepherding phase to sort it out. x.com/pvldb/status/1…

Cisco to buy cyber-security company Duo for $2.35 billion reut.rs/2vbrwRH

Bravo

This season, Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan has multiple tenure-track positions in all areas, including theory/crypto/security. Please apply and spread the word! cse.umich.edu/cse/jobs/

This seems concerning

Goodness. I ran the same trends query again. First image is from 11pm eastern on Thursday night. Second image is from 240pm eastern on Friday.

Some of the cruelest things I’ve ever seen in print were in a female colleague’s course evaluation.

Very proud that my student @jmfaleiro won this year's ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray award for the top PhD dissertation in the area of data systems. sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/… Jose's thesis focused on scalable, multi-core transaction processing.

Congrats! Very well deserved

Jerry Lawson (1940-2011), the developer of the first interchangeable cartridge video game console with a microprocessor, the Fairchild Channel F (1976). This console predated the Atari 2600 by one year!

This is a shame

A photo is circulating online of Trump holding up the New York Post with Hunter Biden on the cover. A White House spokesman told CNN the photo is real. The alleged emails underpinning the NY Post stories may be part of a Russian disinformation campaign. cnn.com/2020/10/16/pol…

I love Election Day.

I’ve been intrigued by the world of tools that automate what typically takes data practitioners days to weeks of error-prone/not-so-repeatable work. I call this space autodata, and wrote a blog post about it: blog.marcua.net/2021/02/07/aut…

Check out the paper, code on GitHub, and colab demo

This project has been a ton of fun to work on. If you think it can solve a problem that's important to you, please get in touch!

A very cool, interesting new paper on how to orchestrate and optimize data processing tasks with LLMs