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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 26/08/2026

Are research papers content yet?

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 03/08/2026

vibes like this classic www.usenix.org/legacy/event...

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

There is still time to register for CIDR 2026 in Santa Cruz! If you need a roommate for the conference, there is also a spreadsheet you can use to find someone! www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...

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The 16th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2026), Registration Information

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 17/11/2025

why i pay for the verge

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 03/10/2025

I agree as a unit of progress. But it is still integral as a mechanism to learn how to organize thoughts and arguments, and communicate effectively.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 18/07/2025

As an academic who has named papers after the classic mortal kombat ninjas (eugenewu.net/ninjas.html), I am obligated to share that the new Mortal Kombat II trailer IS AMAZING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9pH...

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 07/07/2025

6/ Got takes? 📩 DM us or email ewu@cs.columbia.edu/raulcf@uchicago.edu #SIGMOD2025 #VLDB2025 #databases #AI #academicresearch #CSResearch

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 07/07/2025

5/ 📄 Full writeup: wp.sigmod.org?p=3828 🎤 VLDB 2025 sequel panel is coming—with new voices and deeper focus on trade-offs: Shreya Shankar, Gustavo Alonso, Natacha Crooks, Jiannan Wang & Divesh Srivastava.

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Panel Summary: Where Does Academic Database Research Go From Here? – ACM SIGMOD Blog

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 07/07/2025

4/ Panelists’ spicy ideas: 🌶️ • 8 page SIGMOD papers + a YouTube explainer • More industry internships to understand "the real world" • Host “Data + X” workshops in other fields—NOT at SIGMOD

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 07/07/2025

3/ Academia enables “research as play.” • But how do we balance that with: • Real funding constraints • Recruiting top students • But how to compete with 600-person industry teams? By picking the right problems

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 07/07/2025

2/ DB folks still have a massive edge: • Declarative thinking • Separation of logical + physical • Deep systems chops • But we’re not always in the rooms where AI decisions are made. That needs to change.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 07/07/2025

1/ Where does *academic* database research go from here—in a world dominated by AI, $100B in private investment, and an NSF budget cut in half? Where should focus go? At SIGMOD 2025, we hosted a panel to discuss, summarized on the SIGMOD blog: wp.sigmod.org?p=3828 🧵 Key takeaways from the panel:

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Panel Summary: Where Does Academic Database Research Go From Here? – ACM SIGMOD Blog

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 02/07/2025

Last but not least, the first workshop on data management, process mining, and LLMs! The founder of process mining, Wil van der Aals, as well as Ernesto Damiani, gave exciting keynotes. dbpmworkshop.github.io

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 02/07/2025

Along with Raul Castro Fernandez, I also co-organized a lively SIGMOD panel exploring the future of academic database research.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 02/07/2025

I was delighted to deliver a keynote "A Decade of Systems for Human Data Interaction" at HILDA Workshop. I argue that HILDA is about providing guarantees for **user-facing experiences** -- critical to support the rise of vibe coding and LLMs that are eating UX.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 02/07/2025

Physical Visualization Design by Yiru Chen et al., lets interface designers focus purely on the visual experience and user interaction of visualization interfaces. PVD automatically assesses if a design can meet interactivity goals synthesizes the client-server architecture to deploy it.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 02/07/2025

Haneen had a strong presence at ProvWeek: high-performance lineage compression and an in-depth comparison of capture methods. She demo'd FADE, which runs >1M what-if qs/sec in DuckDB to power interactive what-if analytics. It's a DuckDB extension! github.com/haneensa/lin...

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GitHub - haneensa/lineage: row-level lineage

row-level lineage. Contribute to haneensa/lineage development by creating an account on GitHub.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 02/07/2025

Highlights: John and Luis received the 10-year Test-of-Time Award for their 2015 paper k-shape Lampros, myself, & friends at Celonis won DEEM Best Paper for Hierarchical Text Segmentation using LLMs & Best Industry Demo for semantic taxonomy-driven prompt optimization.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 02/07/2025

Columbia's Data Management Group just wrapped up @sigmod2025.bsky.social with a strong showing: 4 papers, 2 demos, a keynote, a tutorial, and a panel. Highlights include a test-of-time award, best paper at DEEM, and best industry demo awards! A full write up is at: eugenewu.net/general/2025...

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Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The US government is aiming to get rid of a quarter million people involved in science research and education by 2026. I have no words.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 18/06/2025

software craftsmanship in action.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 16/06/2025

Working on HILDA@sigmod2025.bsky.social keynote slides. Thinking about human data interaction, AI, and a virtuous cycle. Looking forward to seeing folks in a week!

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 27/05/2025

Making use of existing structured data is super valuable but still an open question. We've been working on closing the loop on table search in large data repos for a while now. The key is to search via the data task rather than keywords or a table Overview slides: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/unpng...

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

the following 30 seconds from perfect movie REAL GENIUS are a rock solid vision of the future of education youtu.be/wB1X4o-MV6o?...

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Real Genius Classroom montage (1985)

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 24/04/2025

Almost every db faculty that has received an nsf award ad benefitrd from hector and sylvia’s work. Well deserved!

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 24/04/2025

Go columbia db! Congrats to luis and papa john!

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 23/04/2025

Since you are making assumptions about what the reader knows (axes, weird encodings), then if you also assume the reader is already familiar with the points, show an empty image. 1:0

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Could not have been clearer about this www.theverge.com/24282022/kam...

Then presumptive Trump health secretary RFK Jr. hit the scene to spew his dangerous anti-vax bullshit, convinced enough people to stop getting vaccinated, and the fucking measles came back. When this man visited Samoa in 2019, he contributed to a measles outbreak so bad that 83 people died, almost all of them children. But to see this failure of collective action would require a break with the MAGA worldview, so these dummies have fallen back to saying getting measles is actually good.

Do you trust Donald Trump to see this tradeoff and understand this outcome? To adjust to it and use the power of the Oval Office to convince Americans that the balance of harms favors vaccinations over a rise in measles cases? He couldn’t even do it for the covid vaccines his own Operation Warp Speed produced, and Vance is now blowing anti-vax dog whistles as loudly as he can in his public speeches. It is a near certainty that Trump will just blame the next measles outbreak on immigration because at least he can shoot at brown people.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 18/02/2025

Excited for Phil Cascado from Outropy to join our class to talk about systems problems that arise when building agentic systems for real. AI is great for demos and hard for products. Class: W6113.github.io

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 18/02/2025

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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 13/02/2025

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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Defense Against Dishonest Charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 13/02/2025

Really excited for shreya to speak about docETL, and in general LLM powered data analysis and the role of agent-based optimization, in our graduate seminar Agents For Real Class website: w6113.github.io

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 07/02/2025

Exciting opportunity at the Columbia DAPLab! We are looking to hire a postdoc to work on AI Agents at the intersection of systems, AI, and HCI for Fall 2025. 🔥 Check out the details in the job post here: daplab.cs.columbia.edu/positions #ColumbiaUnversity #AI #AIAgents

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 29/01/2025

The disparity between the ease to write an EO and the effort needed to push against it seems like a problem.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 06/01/2025

Mechanisms for user agency and control over their data will continue to grow in importance and visibility!

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 23/12/2024

Looks like science giving us the finger. Sometime certainly feels like it

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 15/12/2024

End of semester faculty reviews from McSweeny’s. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f...

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 13/12/2024

ok last one. i swear

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 13/12/2024

literally don't understand this but love it: youtu.be/PEvLAVxVKeY

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 13/12/2024

Mad Lad in class wrote this story about Codd with an odd bod.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 13/12/2024

I asked my students in introduction to databases to create database memes. Here are some bangers: I remove all data redundancy, Might not preserve some functional dependency, Cluttered databases I do reform, 'Am your good ol' friend Boyce-Codd Normal Form.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.

A very complex diagram which begins with the question "Do you need a a gift for someone" but, despite many questions and choices, always suggests either giving a book or buying a book for yourself, or gets in a huff and says "I give up!".

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