The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) is an annual

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conference focused on research into new techniques for

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. It was started in 2002 by Michael Stonebraker, Jim Gray, and

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as a biennial conference to be held at the

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. In 2020, it was transformed into an annual conference with alternating location between

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and the USA. CIDR focuses on presenting work that is more speculative, radical, or provocative than what is typically accepted by the traditional database research conferences (such as the

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(VLDB) and the ACM SIGMOD Conference).

External links

CIDR website
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