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[Future Data] Mooncake: Real-Time Apache Iceberg Without Compromise - Carnegie Mellon Database Group Apache Iceberg is great for large-scale analytics, but it was built for... Read More +

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Cheng Chen will present how @mooncakelabs.bsky.social extends PostgreSQL to support Apache Iceberg. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

Karrieremesse meet@h_da vom 18. - 20.11.2025 von 10 - 16 Uhr: https://h-da.de/wwwh-dade/meet #HDA #H_DA #DualeAusbildung #DualesStudium

🔴 AGORA | Tornado arrasa com município paranaense de Rio Bonito do Iguaçu. Vários prédios e casas vieram abaixo. Há relatos de pessoas soterradas. Equipes de emergência atuam no resgate. Saiba mais do tornado em metsul.com.

Maple 🍁 tree in front of #SAP #WDF03 . It makes me happy year over year.

[Future Data] Multi-statement Transactions in the Databricks Lakehouse - Carnegie Mellon Database Group The data lake architecture originally focused on self-standing tables in cloud storage,... Read More +

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Ryan Johnson (CMU PhD'10) will present @deltalakeoss.bsky.social's internal architecture and how it supports multi-statement transactions. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

Selfie of Giri and Thomas on the terrace of building 3's cafeteria's terrace.

Meeting up with my former colleague and good friend Giri at #SAP this morning. We had a good discussion. It is refreshing to look at things nowadays from a more distanced, albeit long-term perspective.

Brighton 1 - [1] Newcastle United - Nick Woltemade 76‎'‎ great goal

Oh Woltemade, you cheeky little bugger

🎉It was an honor to celebrate 30 remarkable years of the Klaus Tschira Foundation!

It's inspiring to see decades of impact in STEM and science communication and we're excited for many more years of collaboration and innovation!

Photos © Annette Mueck

#KlausTschiraFoundation #STEM #Anniversary

Congratulations: 30 years Klaus Tschira Stiftung. Celebrations near Ladenburg.

Venezuela closes embassy in Oslo after opposition leader awarded Nobel peace prize María Corina Machado has made downfall of Maduro regime in Venezuela her mission

Venezuela closes embassy in Oslo after opposition leader awarded Nobel peace prize

A row of maple trees with a mix of red, orange, yellow and green leaves.

Beautiful colours - as every autumn - along Walldorf's Dietmar-Hopp-Allee near SAP.

[Future Data] Vortex: LLVM for File Formats - Carnegie Mellon Database Group Apache Parquet revolutionized columnar storage after its initial release in 2013, but... Read More +

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Will Manning (@willmanning.com) will present @spiraldb.com's Vortex file format. Vortex is now a @linuxfoundation.org project. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave the US for Switzerland The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave the US for Switzerland

Felicitaciones, María Corina Machado, por recibir el Premio Nobel de la Paz.

This award honours not only your courage and conviction.

But every voice that refuses to be silenced. In Venezuela and across the world.

La reacción de María Corina Machado a su Nobel de la Paz: “Es el mayor reconocimiento a los venezolanos” | Vídeo La líder opositora, que lleva más de un año escondida, ha expresado su sorpresa por el Nobel de la Paz y ha incidido en reconocer la labor de todos los ciudadanos en su país

🏅 #NobelPrize | La reacción de María Corina Machado a su Nobel de la Paz: “Es el mayor reconocimiento a los venezolanos” dozz.es/9jjcu10

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The first 30 minutes of this lecture provide a great overview of the journey of data warehouse technology from the 1990s to the 2020s. "Modern OLAP Database Systems (CMU Advanced Database Systems)" - https://youtu.be/5J-I8Mj8tss

From an article in today’s Guardian. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Listen to 2024 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Torsten Hoefler share how he tries to bridge academia and industry for societal impact . Full episode here or wherever you get your podcast: learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep7...

#ACMByteCast #computing

Selfie of Thomas in front of HDA's iconic main building.

Back at Hochschule Darmstadt #HDA for another kick-off into a new semester.

Coming up next week! Our "Getting Started with R for Research" course offers a clear, beginner-friendly start to R and RStudio with practical data wrangling.

📆 Thurs 25 Sept & 2nd October
🔗 https://edin.ac/4n8pM2W

‘If you think this is about Kimmel being cancelled - you’re missing the point’ | The News Agents Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off-air “indefinitely” after making comments about Donald Trump’s response to the murder of Charlie Kirk. Is this about free speech? Cancel culture? Or is i...

"Trump is using the full power of his office to punish people and organisations who criticise him.

There's a word for that - authoritarian."

If you think this is just about Jimmy Kimmel, you are missing the point.

@maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-y...

YouTube video by MarcUweKling Bye bye Disney

Braucht ihr eigentlich wirklich Disney+? Nee, wa? You have friends everywhere, Jimmy Kimmel. youtube.com/shorts/dzCgY...

Heidelberg Laureate Forum The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an international network event where recipients of the most prestigious awards in mathematics and computer science meet the next generation. The HLF is annually ...

Dave Patterson: "It is a big mistake to ignore the upsides of #AI as it is a mistake to ignore the downsides."
Excellent spark session by @jeffdean.bsky.social and Dave P. in today's (Tue's) #HLF25 program. You can watch the recording on www.youtube.com/@LaureateForum. Approx. 20 min.

Excellent start to #HLF25 's academic program with a "spark session" with 5 short presentations on inspiring topics. Highly recommend to watch some of them. I liked a lot Sanjeev Arora's: Will There Be a Superhuman AI Mathematician?

#HLF25 starts on Sunday and lectures can be watched live via the HLF's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/Laureat... @hlforum.bsky.social

Red (blood) moon over a mountainous horizon.

Tonight, lunar eclipse near Heilbronn in the southwest of Germany. #eclipse2025 #eclipse #bloodmoon #lunareclipse

Der total verfinsterte Mond im Blick eines Teleskops durch den Kuppelspalt einer von innen rot beleuchteten Kuppel

Seid ihr bereit für die totale Mondfinsternis heute Abend? 🔭

Tip: sucht euch einen (ggf. erhöhten) Beobachtungsplatz mit freier Horizontsicht und schönem Vordergrundmotiv zum Fotografieren und dann fangt den Moment ein, in dem der Mond aus der Dunstschicht über dem Horizont kommt 1/2

Eine Frau mit schulterlangen roten Haaren in einem gelben Kleid und ein Mann mit grauen kurzen Haaren, Brille und in schwarzem Polohemd stehen Rücken an Rücken und schauen in die Kamera. Neben ihnen steht in weißer Schrift auf schwarzem Grund "Die großen Fragen der Wissenschaft". Im Hintergrund erkennt man eine wissenschaftlich anmutende Grafik. Außerdem liest man die Logos "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" und "Detektor.FM". Die Atmosphäre ist offen und zugewandt. Das Bild strahlt Kompetenz aus.

Wir feiern die #Neugierde! Ich freu mich darauf, gemeinsam mit @katharinamenne.bsky.social einen neuen #Podcast zu starten! »Die großen Fragen der #Wissenschaft« kommt ab Donnerstag monatlich heraus, den Trailer für alle Neugierigen gibt’s bereits jetzt: www.spektrum.de/index/spektr... #wisskomm

"The truth is: All they’ve agreed is… to have another meeting."

A made-for-TV evening saw European leaders lay it on thick with Trump in hopes of a Ukraine-friendly peace deal.

But did it get them anywhere?