Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️In Amsterdam for the Martin Kersten memorial meeting in The Mövenpick, opening the #CIDR2023 conference.
I'll thank Martin and highlight the brille of this true "data artist", along Peter Boncz (CWI colleague and Martin's PhD candidate who did the main implementation work on MonetDB), ETH's Gustavo Alonso,
Arno Siebes (my boss when I joined CWI as postdoc), Athens' Yannis Ioannidis and current #ACM president,
EPFL's Anastasia Ailamaki, and, CMU's Andy Pavlo.