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📢📢 VLDB 2027 Shadow PC is here! @vldb.bsky.social
Apply at forms.office.com/e/v1ZmNaPvrn by April 8!
For more info, see vldb.org/2027/shadow-...
Chairs: @zistvan.bsky.social, Tianzheng Wang, Primal Pappachan, & I.

[not work] Random thoughts on doing sports. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2026/02/spor...

The Missing Semester of your CS education [MIT IAP 2026] - https://missing.csail.mit.edu

In January, @anishathalye.bsky.social, @josejg.bsky.social, and I returned to @csail.mit.edu to teach Missing Semester, a class on topics we miss from most CS programs—tools and techniques that everyone should know, like Bash, Git, CI, and AI tools. Today, we’re releasing the course for free online!

Forskningsprojekt skal bidrage til baeredygtig AI Kunstig intelligens er en betydelig og voksende belastning for miljøet. Forskerne bag det nye forskningsprojekt, DEEP, har fået en bevilling på 5,6 millioner kr. til et projekt, som har til formål båd...

AI er en energisluger. I et nyt forskningsprojekt vil ITU-lektor @pinartozun.bsky.social og kolleger fra Schweiz undersøge, hvordan man kan forbedre udnyttelsen af GPU'er og dermed reducere AI-løsningers CO2-aftryk.

#dkforsk #dktech #dkgreen

Research project to boost sustainable AI The environmental impact of AI is significant and growing. The researchers behind the new research project, DEEP, have received a 5,6 million DKK grant for a project focused on reducing the cost and t...

This week our partners in DEEP project (funded by @snsf.ch) hosted us in Switzerland. We had talks and lively discussions at UNIL, EPFL, HEIG-VD. Thanks to Pamela Delgado, Busra Karatay Demiray, & Hector Satizabal for hosting us.
A brief article on the DEEP project: en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Pr...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Here's that HBR story in full hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

[not work] January tends to be a difficult month, and 2025 feels so far away already thanks to how January was. So, this month just some recollections for films, shows, books, and music from 2025. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...

PhD position for Algebraic Complexity Theory at the IT University of Copenhagen The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a PhD position starting 1 September 2026 or soon thereafter.  We invite a

I am looking to hire PhD students to work on Complexity Theory (and more specifically on Algebraic Complexity). candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Deadline: March 1, 2016.

Paper: vldb.org/cidrdb/paper...
Code: github.com/itu-rad/nvmefs

MSc thesis work of Emil Houlborg and Andreas Tietgen @itu.dk will be presented at CIDR conference next week. Huge congrats to them!
Modern storage I/O landscape is very diverse, yet not so accessible. We created a new file system extension for @duckdb.org with xNVMe to help with this accessibility.

Azim had a stellar committee which included Daniel Lemire (TELUQ 🇨🇦), Pinar Tözün (ITU 🇩🇰) and Viktor Leis (TUM 🇩🇪).

They gave talks at the Dutch Seminar on Data Systems Design (DSDSD) on SIMD-accelerated parsing, xNVMe and escaping from the insanity of SQL.

(video will be posted on dsdsd.da.cwi.nl)

Looking forward to the South Bay Systems event after CIDR on Jan 21! I will be presenting our CIDR'26 paper on integrating xNVMe into DuckDB --> vldb.org/cidrdb/paper...
Thanks for the invitation @southbaysystems.xyz @alexmillerdb.bsky.social !!

Thanks for the interest @jauntywk.bsky.social! We created a new filesystem extension for DuckDB that integrates xNVMe. Original goal was to make it easier to test flexible data placement SSDs, but xNVMe gives a lot more. More details are at vldb.org/cidrdb/paper...

📢📢 December 2025 issue of SIGMOD Record is out, so is the Reminiscences column. Thank you, Genoveva Vargas-Solar @vevavargas.bsky.social, Thomas Heinis, Alexander Boehm, and Pamela Delgado for the great contributions!
pdf @ sigmodrecord.org/2025/12/31/r...

[not work] This one could have been titled “a love letter to all my culture vultures.” Happy holidays, everyone!
distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/12/soci...

Workshop title, topics of interests, and important dates from https://tdis.gitlab.io/tdis26/ 4th International Workshop on Testing Distributed Internet of Things Systems Held in conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2026 April 27, 2026, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom The 4th International Workshop on Testing Distributed Internet of Things Systems (TDIS) will again bring together computer systems researchers and practitioners who focus on testing, evaluating, and measuring distributed IoT systems across the edge-cloud continuum to provide a forum for ongoing work presentations and discussions. ...

1/2: We are organizing #TDIS again, our workshop on testbeds, benchmarking, and experimentation tools for distributed systems in the IoT/edge/cloud continuum. The workshop will be held again alongside ACM #EuroSys, which will take place at the end of April 2026 in #Edinburgh!

One year together as the Data, Systems, & Robotics section. Very happy to be part of this group. Our first section outing was on Tuesday with talks covering topics of medical imaging, robotics, internet-of-things, and data systems. Plus, a pub-quiz that required a lot of math to answer questions! 🎉

There is still time to register for CIDR 2026 in Santa Cruz! If you need a roommate for the conference, there is also a spreadsheet you can use to find someone! www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...

📢📢 Ties Robroek is at ELLIS UnConference (pre-EurIPS, eurips.cc/ellis/) tomorrow to present TensorSocket!! TensorSocket lets you share tensors efficiently when training multiple models, allowing training on more affordable hardware.
Code: github.com/itu-rad/tens...
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2409.18749

[not work] Continuing with the themes of last month's post, this time with a focus on the choice of having children.
distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/11/chil...

2 #Postdoc positions at TU Wien (Vienna, Austria)

1️⃣ Data Warehousing & System Performance
jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/259680

2️⃣ Natural Language Interfaces, LLMs, Exploratory Data Access
jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/259683

Appl. deadline: Nov 13, 2025
Details: dmki-tuwien.github.io/jobs.html

@dmki.bsky.social

[not work] Earlier this month, I was at an old friend’s wedding, which was a very happy occasion. Such occasions are also where I hear too many people wishing the same happy ending for me. However, I also wish to root for alternative happy endings.
distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/10/chil...

The accepted papers for CIDR 2026 are up!

I'm looking forward to "I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server" and "Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control"

cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pap...

GitHub - facebookincubator/nimble: New file format for storage of large columnar datasets. New file format for storage of large columnar datasets. - facebookincubator/nimble

There was collaboration attempt between CMU, Tsinghua, Meta, CWI, Nvidia, Voltron, & SpiralDB. But then lawyers got involved and it fell apart. Everyone released their own format:
→ Meta Nimble: github.com/facebookincu...
→ CWI FastLanes: github.com/cwida/FastLa...
→ SpiralDB Vortex: vortex.dev

I'm hiring PhDs through the ELLIS PhD program for research on table representation learning to democratize insights from tabular data!

Info: trl-lab.github.io/open-positio...
Apply: apply.ellis.eu (31 Oct)

Join us in beautiful Amsterdam at @cwi-amsterdam.bsky.social & @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social ✨

Two PhD Opportunities at BIFOLD / #TUBerlin :

1x #ML #XAI #GNN; Group suvised by KR Müller
1x #DBS #BDA; Group supervised by V Markl

www.bifold.berlin/about-us/opp...

#PhDSky #fundedPhD #doctoral #researcher #sciencejobs #Stemjobs #academicjobs #MLSky @datasciencejobscom.bsky.social

📢📢 The September 2025 issue of SIGMOD Record is out, so is the Reminiscences column. Thank you, Viktor Leis, Anja Gruenheid, @senorcarbone.bsky.social, and @elenitz.bsky.social for the great contributions!
pdf --> sigmodrecord.org/publications...

[not work] The last post already had some recollections of VLDB 2021, so I decided to continue those recollections.
distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Professor portrait: Luca Aiello wants to make the internet a better place On 24 September 2025 at 14:30, Professor Luca Aiello will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen.

This Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 14:30, our Professor Luca Aiello @lajello.bsky.social will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen!

en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Pr...

Carnegie Mellon University Future Data Systems Fall 2025 Seminar Series Mondays @ 4:30pm ET

Next week is the start of @db.cs.cmu.edu's latest seminar series: Future Data Systems
@samarchdb.bsky.social and I are hosting speakers from leading systems in the datalake / lakehouse space.
Mondays @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to the public. Videos posted to YouTube: db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/fal...