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. https://t.co/4gqo2i8Q3t #Computing #STEM #Data

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

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.

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.

Check out more details at https://t.co/zgDt0JtufU. The ARI committee that picked these winners is led by @manathan1984 and @holger_p ✨

The honourable mention award goes to "HypeR: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach" by @SainyamGalhotra @sudeepa_roy @bksalimi et al. 🙌💡Kudos to the entire team! 🌠

🌟🏆 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. @dtabass @chenlica 👏🔥 Congrats to the team behind this submission! 🏅

🦄 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_p @imperialcollege @matthiasboehm7

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 (@DB_Bahn) have become an embarrassment. I think ministers need to stop flying domestically.

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.

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. https://t.co/P6Lq3a2u5D @MonetDB @cwi_da

We are looking for a PostDoc🎓 at our group at @CS_TUDarmstadt 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 https://t.co/ZfWwYebGVM

Please join us Thursday (26/5) at 2 pm BST for Chi Wang, Microsoft Research, talk "Chi Wang, Microsoft Research"

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):

Please join us Thursday (19/5) at 3:15pm BST for Peter Boncz, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, talk "FSST: fast random-access string compression"

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"

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”:

As promised, here comes the advertisement: https://t.co/CAxd56Z2II. Don’t let the HR-legalese deter you from applying! If you want to know more, just shoot me a mail!

Computer Science Twitter: is there an alternative platform to socialize with researchers? #AskingForAFriend Please don't tell me LinkedIn is going to be the plan B... 🫠

Did you just graduate in databases or compilers and would like to look into the other? I am looking to hire a postdoc in that space at @ICComputing in London (fully funded for two years). Formal ad is coming soon but feel free to dm or email me if interested.