Carsten Binnig
@cbinnig
Abstract submission deadline of @SIGMODConf 2026 (round 1) is in 2 days, 10 Jan, AoE. For this (1) All authors must have a registered CMT account with a valid ORCID. (2) All authors must declare their domain and their individual conflicts. Please check the CfP carefully.
📢📢VLDB 2026 will have a ShadowPC! Apply at forms.office.com/e/XYihKj4UKq by March 1! Great opportunity for folk who are new to the data management community and want to gain experience with paper reviewing. For more info, see the application form. Chairs: @zistvan, @wangtzh , & I.
Hesse plans major cuts to university funding. This article, featuring my colleague Stefan Roth (TU Darmstadt), highlights the serious consequences. It risks widening the gap with states like Bavaria & Baden-Württemberg—and with leading high-tech nations: bit.ly/44prCWO
Germans living abroad: last chance to register for the upcoming election is *tomorrow* (2 Feb 2025): auswaertiges-amt.de/de/service/269…
If you’re German and living abroad: make sure not to miss the deadline for voter registration for the upcoming election. Even if you registered for past elections, you *will probably have to re-register* (deadline: 21 days before the election). The registration form will ask…
Die KI #Deepseek rüttelt die Tech-Welt auf – wie sie funktioniert und wieso das eine Chance gerade für Deutschland ist, diskutieren @AlaArmbruster und @CarstenKnop mit KI-Professor @kerstingAIML (@TUDarmstadt @Hessian_AI): faz.net/podcasts/f-a-z…
Some learnings from consistent sleep tracking: * Alcohol isn't worth it (not even a single glass) * Travel & Jetlag (9h time diff) are challenging, even w/ a good protocol * Late work (touching laptop within 2h of sleep onset) isn't ideal
I thought @bryan_johnson's idea of building your life around asleep was ridiculous, but after trying it for a week, I'm sold. → Brain works better → Feel awesome all the time → Get more done in less time (Parkinson's Law) Caveat: I do not have children.
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My new book comes out TOMORROW!! Stop writing emails and order a copy now: bit.ly/OOYM
DaMoN - The 21st International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware will be co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2025. The submission deadline is March 14th, 2025. Checkout the website for further instructions. damon-db.org
We must never forget
My new book comes out TOMORROW!! Stop writing emails and order a copy now: bit.ly/OOYM
Es soll ein CERN für KI geben 🤩F.A.Z. exklusiv: Brüssel plant Megafabriken für die Künstliche Intelligenz via @faznet faz.net/1.10253508?pre…
Klasse! 🤩 Darmstadt gehört zu den Top Fünf der Gründerstädte in Deutschland. 🎉 hessenschau.de/wirtschaft/top…
CMT for round 1 of ACM SIGMOD 2026 is now open. @SIGMODConf 2026 has a two-step submission process: all authors must have a registered CMT account with an ORCID & completed conflict of interest declarations by the abstract submission deadline (10 Jan 2025, 11:59 PM AoE).
We are excited to announce the 2nd ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models in 2025, 18-21 March in Amsterdam. This time, we have 250 seats available. Secure your spot! ✨ 🔗 Visit ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/ellis/events/2… 🚀 Apply forms.gle/Lhzmkyqje6rva9…
2025 has not started yet, but we are already preparing for @SIGMODConf 2026. Round 1 will start on 10 Jan 2025. The 2026 Call for Research Papers can be found here: 2026.sigmod.org/calls_papers_s…. We are looking forward to many great submissions. @sudeepa_roy & @cbinnig (PC co-chairs)
Last chance to register for CIDR 2025 in Amsterdam!
The CIDR 2025 program is online: cidrdb.org/cidr2025/progr… Registration closes today -- Join us in Amsterdam: cidrdb.org/cidr2025/regis…
We're excited to announce that the VLDB Summer School will take place from Monday, 28th of July, to Thursday, 31st of July, 2025 at the University of Wroclaw, in Poland! 🇵🇱 More details to follow soon ☀️
Our ML4Sys and Sys4ML workshop has been accepted to BTW 2025 🎉 Submit your one-page abstracts by December 3 and join us in Bamberg, Bavaria! luthramanisha.github.io/ML4Sys-and-Sys… Big shoutout to @LuthraManisha for organizing! cc @matthiasboehm7
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Our recent workshop paper puts Vision-Language Models like #GPT4o to the test with Bongard problems🧩 We show that VLMs struggle to identify concepts that are quite intuitive to humans. Still a long way to go for human-like visual reasoning! 🤖🧠 arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546