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Looking back on some of the highlights of this year. Ｈａｐｐｙ ｈｏｌｉｄａｙｓ！🎄🎆🎉

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-…

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 ➡️youtu.be/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. youtu.be/moQY_eiHCTs

@lianhuiwang @marcinzukowski @peterabcz @cwi_da youtu.be/X4CupC6oiSQ?si…

@CWInl @marcinzukowski @peterabcz @cwi_da Where can I find slides or videos? Thanks.

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.

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… many 🙏 @DLJtenWolde & Leonardo Kuffo Rivero from @cwida for editing!

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):

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…

Some pictures of the CWI lectures on database architecture, more here: cwida.github.io/dbdbd2024/dijk… 🙏 to @marcinzukowski + @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!

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/regis…

@sibirbilOPT Welcome Ilker!

I am glad to announce that I am now an associated member at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (@CWInl) in the group of Networks and Optimization for one day a week. If you are in the area and want to discuss some interesting problems, feel free to reach out! cwi.nl/en/groups/netw…

Congratulations @laurahollink, @and_nesterov and @jrvosse with the #ekaw2024 Best Poster and Demo Award! 🥳

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

@lianhuiwang @marcinzukowski @peterabcz @cwi_da We expect the videos of the Dijkstra Fellowship and lectures to be shared later this week. Stay tuned for updates—we’ll announce it here on X once they are available!

Part of iopscience.iop.org/collections/nc…, 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/10.108…

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! 🤖