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Data systems take centre stage at CIDR 2025
The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) brought 170 international visitors to Amsterdam this year. Organized locally by our Database Architectures (DA) group, CIDR is renowned for showcasing bold ideas, novel …
Hannes Mühleisen wins the Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2025
The Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2025 has been awarded to Hannes Mühleisen, Senior Researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud University …
CWI's research partner Databricks raises $10 billion in landmark funding round
US-based software company and CWI research partner Databricks has raised $10 billion in one of the largest private funding rounds to date, bringing the company’s valuation to $62 billion. Databricks develops software …
Dijkstra Fellowship for Marcin Żukowski
CWI has elected Marcin Żukowski for the 2024 Dijkstra Fellowship. With this honorary title, CWI recognizes his pioneering role in the development of database management systems that had great societal impact, and …
NGF AiNed Fellowship for democratizing insights from structured data
Institutions lacking resources are struggling to make use of huge amounts of structured data, creating a data literacy gap and making them fall behind large corporations. Madelon Hulsebos, an incoming tenure-track researcher, …
Fast and efficient data analysis thanks to new database architectures
CWI’s long-term software development has led to fundamentally new database architectures that have transformed a trillion-dollar global database market.
MonetDB Foundation launched
In January 2024 the MonetDB Foundation was established for the preservation, maintenance and further development of the MonetDB project – a trailblazer in the world of database management systems.
Test of Time Award for paper on vectorized execution
A CWI paper on a new way of implementing database systems has won the Test of Time Award, established by the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR). The paper was published …
