Martin L. Kersten
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| Born | Martin Leopold Kersten October 25, 1953 Amsterdam |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions |
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica |
| Alma mater | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Known for | MonetDB |
| Influenced |
Column-oriented DBMS, In-memory databases |
| Notable awards |
ACM Fellow, SIGMOD Systems Award, ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award |
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Website Martin Kersten at CWI |
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Martin L. Kersten (born October 25, 1953) is a computer scientist with research focus on database architectures, query optimization and their use in scientific databases. He is 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).
He started his career in computer science as research assistant in 1975. As of 1979 he was scientific researcher and lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Until 1985 he worked on database security, database programming languages and he developed a relational DBMS, which became a component of a commercial CASE environment from 1985-1991. He was visiting researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1980 and 1983, visiting researcher Standford University (2001,2002), and Microsoft Research (2005).
In 1985 he moved to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica - the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, to establish the Database Research Group. Between 1986 and 1990 he was co-designer of the PRISMA database machine, a RDBMS for a 100-node multiprocessor. In a follow up ESPRIT-II project Kersten was responsible for the development of an enhanced version of SQL for documents and geographical data. From 1989-1993 he led a national project on the exploitation of the Amoeba distributed system for advanced database management and a national project for database design formalizations.
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