The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) provides a venue for presenting innovative data systems architectures | Jan 18-21, 2026 | Santa Cruz
Congratulations to the 2026 @cidrdb prize awardees!
@tianyu_li_ → Gong Show Winner
@FuhengZ → Database Quiz Winner
They each received a rare signed print of "The Birth of the Database Messiah" (est value $12,000).
The program is up for CIDR 2026. We have two exciting keynotes planned!
Analyzing Metastable Failures by Rebecca Isaacs
How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint by David Patterson
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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!
https://t.co/zpekggs7k6
Today at the CIDR conference, Marcin Zukowski, Niels Nes and I received the Test of Time award for our @cwi_da paper on vectorized query execution!
Very thankful for this honor & for creating this award going forward.
We gave a talk: https://t.co/ZD26JC9nmx (with speaker notes)
@cidrdb presented the 'Test of Time' award to the MonetDB/X100 paper.
The paper introduced the revolutionary 'vectorized execution' technique to improve the performance of db queries.
The CIDR 2024 registration page is online. Note: registration and booking the accommodation is a two-step process, please make that you perform both of them.
https://t.co/aDuaDiShAh