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Starting 1 January 2025 we will no longer post updates or respond to direct messages. Stay connected with us on our other social platforms to keep up with the latest news and updates! 🔗linkedin.com/company/centrum… 🔗@cwi-amsterdam.bsky.social 🔗instagram.com/cwi_amsterdam/
Join the CWI Spring School Control Theory and #ReinforcementLearning 2025! Are you an advanced MSc student, early PhD researcher, or professional passionate about control theory and reinforcement learning? See: cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-researc…
Congratulations to @databricks on raising $𝟭𝟬 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 in one of the largest private funding rounds in history! We are proud to be connected to Databricks through its Amsterdam research and development team. bit.ly/41DVVrK Picture: Shutterstock.com/Tada Images
During a completely sold-out Gala van de Wetenschap on 7 November Tim Baarslag told the audience how AI helps us negotiate the best deal for both parties. After his presentation two dancers did a 'negotiation dance'. You can watch it here ➡️piped.video/Oi45mS2yz18 #ai #negotiate
'There is a lot of depth and wisdom in old research'. Check out the interview with Snowflake co-founder @marcinzukowski who became a Dijkstra Fellow last November. He shares lessons from his journey in tech. Co-starring 🎬@andy_pavlo and @MadelonHulsebos. piped.video/moQY_eiHCTs
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Furthermore, we have now posted the video's of these lectures now in the @dsdsdnl (Dutch Seminar on Data Systems Design) seminar YT channel:
bit.ly/cwida-dijkstra-lectur…
many 🙏 @DLJtenWolde & Leonardo Kuffo Rivero from @cwida for editing!
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But there's more! Last Friday, the day after the Dijkstra Award, it was our honor to host the 20th Dutch-Belgian Database Day (DBDBD2024) @cwida.
It was well-attended and lively. 🙏 to all who made it possible.
DBDBD2024 pictures are on cwida.github.io/dbdbd2024 (scroll down):
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The closing of DBDBD 2024 was the "Amsterdam Data Systems" session, with talks from @databricks, @motherduck and @clickhouse (due to illness, @weaviate_io could not make it). These companies all have a significant presence in Amsterdam.
Videos on YT: bit.ly/cwida-ams-data-system…
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Some pictures of the CWI lectures on database architecture, more here: cwida.github.io/dbdbd2024/di…
🙏 to @marcinzukowski
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@andy_pavlo @MadelonHulsebos Hannes Muehleisen, Viktor Leis and Allison Lee for their contributions, but also to all who made this a great event and attended!
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After enjoying very well attended @CWInl Lectures on Data Systems & Dijkstra Fellowship Ceremony, as well as DBDBD 2024 @CWInl, we look forward to organizing CIDR 2025 & welcoming you in Amsterdam (Jan 19-22, 2025). Registration closes on Thu Dec 19, 2024. cidrdb.org/cidr2025/registra…
The CIDR 2025 registration page is online! cidrdb.org/cidr2025/registra…
Congratulations @laurahollink, @and_nesterov and @jrvosse with the #ekaw2024 Best Poster and Demo Award! 🥳
Congratulations to Andrei Nesterov, Laura Hollink and Jacco van Ossenbruggen for winning #EKAW24 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 on their paper "Alter Heritage: a Web App to Gather Expert Knowledge on Inclusive Cultural Heritage Metadata"🏆
134 participants from 22 countries visited @ekawconference this week, hosted by group leader @laurahollink. We look back at an insightful event on knowledge management, with talks, workshops, posters & demos and an excellent vibe👍. Great to see people from so many countries 🌍!
Data specialist Salim Salmi developed an AI tool that can support @113preventie counsellors in chat conversations with people who are thinking about #suicide. He defends his thesis on 4 december at @VUamsterdam. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3AY5mYd
Part of iopscience.iop.org/collectio…, this paper from @Tao69321195 and @SanderBohte (@CWInl) presents a two-phase time-domain streaming #SNN framework for speech enhancement with low latency and excellent performance
iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
Congrats @marcinzukowski with the Dijkstra Fellowship Award for your groundbreaking work on database architecture! "I hope he will continue to build new technologies, teams and products, because he's great at it", CWI group leader Peter Boncz said in his laudation speech.
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Our Team’s Power Move? 🫂 A Good Hug! 😁
#TRANSXMIXR partners from @CWInl were at Tampere University, Finland 🇫🇮 collaborating with the Ultra Video group👉 ultravideo.fi/ to develop codecs for #volumetric video.
Stay tuned as we transform ideas into reality! 🤖
📜 36 years ago, the Netherlands became the first country in Europe to connect to the public internet! 🌐 On 17 November 1988, Piet Beertema of CWI received the confirmation email linking us to the global academic network. 📡 Amsterdam Science Park remains a key internet hub.
Great to hear that you enjoyed the workshop at CWI, and the 'Lambda Men' made by artist Jan Snoeck! 🎉
Just arrived back in Manchester after a few exciting days at the @CWInl workshop on high-dimensional UQ. So many great speakers, posters, and people to chat to! 😊
Oh and here are @s_dubinkina and I trying to be: Eigenvalues? Lagrange multipliers? The Lebesgue measure?
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We're excited to bring the 4th Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2025) to Amsterdam! 🌷🚲
🔗 chiwork.org/
📆 June 23-25, 2025
📍 @CWInl, Amsterdam
Papers d/l: January 31, 2025 (AoE)
cc @ShadanSB @Carilall @erinsolovey @philwintersberg @chinl
