Martin Kersten | |
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Born | Martin Leopold Kersten October 25, 1953 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Died | July 6, 2022 | (aged 68)
Alma mater | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
Known for | MonetDB |
Awards | Order of the Netherlands Lion, HiPEAC Tech Transfer Award,[1] ACM Fellow, SIGMOD Systems Award, ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica |
Website | www |
Martin L. Kersten (October 25, 1953 – July 6, 2022) was a computer scientist with research focus on database architectures, query optimization and their use in scientific databases. He was an architect of the MonetDB system, an open-source column store for data warehouses, online analytical processing (OLAP) and geographic information systems (GIS). He has been (co-) founder of several successful spin-offs of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).[2]