Aug 3, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon University Database Research Group celebrates the grand convergence of data storage and computational mastery with the ML⇄DB Seminar Series (Machine Learning for Databases + Databases for Machine Learning). Each speaker will present the implementation details of their respective systems and examples of the technical challenges they faced when working with real-world customers. CMU-DB's weekly meetings (Mondays @ 4:30pm EST) are available to the public on Zoom. Non-CMU affiliated members of the general public are Read More

Aug 17, 2022

Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is hosting another round of online database technical tech talks in the fall 2022 semester. ¡Databases! – A Database Seminar Series will feature talks from leading researchers and industry developers that are building state-of-the-art systems. CMU-DB's weekly meetings (Mondays @ 4:30pm EST) are available to the public on Zoom. Non-CMU affiliated members of the general public are invited to attend. The recordings are available on the CMU-DB Youtube Channel afterwards. Schedule September Read More

Aug 11, 2021

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Databases are not a field in systems research or computer science. Databases are a lifestyle. At all points in one's life, you should consider whether whatever you are doing at that moment is contributing to humanity's knowledge and understanding of databases. If the answer is no, you should cease the activity and get back to working on what matters in life: database research. This is a tough choice. It means that children are going to be forgotten Read More

May 16, 2021

Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is pleased to announce that CS alumnus Prof. Huanchen Zhang (now faculty at Tsinghua University) has won the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award. This honor is conferred for the best dissertation in the field of databases for the previous year. Huanchen's thesis, entitled "Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems", develops new methods for reducing the memory overhead of search trees. Huanchen's thesis advisers were CMU CS faculty members David Read More

Mar 1, 2021

Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is hosting a series of online database technical tech talks in 2021 as we start to get vaccinated. These talks will feature leading researchers and industry developers that are building state-of-the-art systems. CMU-DB's weekly meetings (Mondays @ 4:30pm EST) are available to the public on Zoom. Non-CMU affiliated members of the general public are invited to attend. See the seminar info page for the schedule of upcoming talks. The recordings are available Read More

May 4, 2020

Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is hosting a series of online database technical tech talks during the COVID-19 lockdown. These talks will feature leading researchers and industry developers that are building state-of-the-art systems. CMU-DB's weekly meetings (Mondays @ 4:30pm EST) are available to the public on Zoom. Non-CMU affiliated members of the general public are invited to attend. See the seminar info page for the schedule of upcoming talks. The recordings are available on Youtube afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjagqlf1NxuBQwaMkrHXi-iz Read More

Apr 27, 2019

Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is pleased to announce that CS alumnus Prof. Joy Arulraj (now faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology) has won the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award. This honor is conferred for the best dissertation in the field of databases for the previous year. Joy's thesis, entitled "The Design and Implementation of a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management Systems", is based on his work exploring new DBMS architectures for NVM. This was Read More

Mar 10, 2019

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Complacency is our biggest enemy. It lulls the mind into laziness. It makes us not question how things should be because we take for granted that this how things have always been done. This is especially true in databases where the market is established and well-endowed incumbents are entrenched. Thus, it takes resolution and pluck to challenge this world and strive for something better. With this in mind, the CMU Database Group is pleased to announce that Read More