Thomas Zurek 🕊️
@tfxz.bsky.social
SAP, Edinburgh University, EPCC and KIT alumnus. Lecturer at DHBW Karlsruhe + HS Darmstadt. Foundations: Klaus-Tschira-Stiftung + MGH-Stiftung. DBMS, DW, ML. Comments reflect my POV. Also: @[email protected]
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Do you like databases?
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...
2025 in Review with Mike Stonebraker and Andy Pavlo
Webcast Dec 10: DBMS researchers Mike Stonebraker (MIT / DBOS) and Andy Pavlo (CMU) discuss which data and CS trends are heating up or cooling down heading into 2026.
www.dbos.dev
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Do you like databases?
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...
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West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back Russia’s war machine’
West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back Russia’s war machine’
US group Dekleptocracy identifies chemicals used for military vehicles’ lubricants and tyres as potential vulnerabilities
A US group has identified several obscure but potentially key sanctions it says could seriously disrupt Russia’s war effort in Ukraine after last month’s targeting of the Kremlin’s biggest oil firms.
Previous rounds of sanctions have been applied to Russian energy companies, banks, military suppliers and the “shadow fleet” of ships carrying Russian oil. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back Russia’s war machine’
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‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Billy Connolly is 83 today, Happy Birthday Billy 🎁🎂
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Billy Connolly is 83 today, Happy Birthday Billy 🎁🎂
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Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Jeremy Taylor (@refset.bsky.social) will present the architecture of the XTDB (@xtdb.com) time-traveling database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...
[Future Data] Reconstructing History with XTDB - Carnegie Mellon Database Group
XTDB is a SQL database that challenges long held assumptions about how... Read More +
db.cs.cmu.edu
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Jeremy Taylor (@refset.bsky.social) will present the architecture of the XTDB (@xtdb.com) time-traveling database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...
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🚀 Young Researchers: Apply for the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum @hlforum.bsky.social !
Join 200 top minds in math and computer science to meet Turing Award and Fields Medal laureates in Heidelberg, Germany.
When: Sept 13–18, 2026
Apply by Feb 11, 2026
Learn more here: buff.ly/MHdYBQI
Join 200 top minds in math and computer science to meet Turing Award and Fields Medal laureates in Heidelberg, Germany.
When: Sept 13–18, 2026
Apply by Feb 11, 2026
Learn more here: buff.ly/MHdYBQI
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🚀 Young Researchers: Apply for the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum @hlforum.bsky.social !
Join 200 top minds in math and computer science to meet Turing Award and Fields Medal laureates in Heidelberg, Germany.
When: Sept 13–18, 2026
Apply by Feb 11, 2026
Learn more here: buff.ly/MHdYBQI
Join 200 top minds in math and computer science to meet Turing Award and Fields Medal laureates in Heidelberg, Germany.
When: Sept 13–18, 2026
Apply by Feb 11, 2026
Learn more here: buff.ly/MHdYBQI
Filmfestival Mathematik Informatik durch das #HLFF der @ktstiftung. 22-29 Nov 2025. Even though the page is in DE, there are many films in original language. https://www.heidelberg-mains.org/veranstaltungen/filmfestival/
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Filmfestival Mathematik Informatik durch das #HLFF der @ktstiftung. 22-29 Nov 2025. Even though the page is in DE, there are many films in original language. https://www.heidelberg-mains.org/veranstaltungen/filmfestival/
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Tierney and McLean send Scotland to World Cup with thrilling win against Denmark
Tierney and McLean send Scotland to World Cup with thrilling win against Denmark
Hampden Park has hosted seismic, spine-tingling occasions in a storied history dating back to 1903. Add this one to the list. Scotland’s long, long wait is over. Steve Clarke, Andy Robertson, Scott McTominay, John McGinn; you shall go to the ball. So too Kieran Tierney, whose curler from 22 yards seemed to have sealed victory by the odd goal in five before Kenny McLean produced an even more spectacular fourth.
Almost three decades of frustration, during which Scotland have peered towards men’s World Cups from afar, were obliterated as Denmark fell to defeat in stoppage time. Grown men in kilts shed tears. Denmark’s participation in next summer’s jamboree depends on March playoffs. Clarke and a suddenly giddy football nation can start making concrete plans. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Tierney and McLean send Scotland to World Cup with thrilling win against Denmark
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November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Meeting of "my" group of vocational #HDA students at #Merck in #Darmstadt . They presented their resp. PP1 project. Very interesting. I've learned quite a lot.
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Meeting of "my" group of vocational #HDA students at #Merck in #Darmstadt . They presented their resp. PP1 project. Very interesting. I've learned quite a lot.
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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...
[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 +
db.cs.cmu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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
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🔴 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.
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
🔴 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.
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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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...
[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 +
db.cs.cmu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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...
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.
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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.
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Brighton 1 - [1] Newcastle United - Nick Woltemade 76' great goal
Oh Woltemade, you cheeky little bugger
Oh Woltemade, you cheeky little bugger
October 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Brighton 1 - [1] Newcastle United - Nick Woltemade 76' great goal
Oh Woltemade, you cheeky little bugger
Oh Woltemade, you cheeky little bugger
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🎉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
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
October 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🎉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
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.
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Congratulations: 30 years Klaus Tschira Stiftung. Celebrations near Ladenburg.
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Venezuela closes embassy in Oslo after opposition leader awarded Nobel peace prize
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
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Venezuela closes embassy in Oslo after opposition leader awarded Nobel peace prize
Beautiful colours - as every autumn - along Walldorf's Dietmar-Hopp-Allee near SAP.
October 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Beautiful colours - as every autumn - along Walldorf's Dietmar-Hopp-Allee near SAP.
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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...
[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 +
db.cs.cmu.edu
October 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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...
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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...
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.
www.wired.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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...