Martin Kersten, Research Fellow at CWI, is awarded the 2014 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, the most prestigious prize for researchers who have made innovative and significant contributions to database systems and databases. Kersten received the award on 26 June at the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference. The Awards Committee recognized the influential contributions of Kersten to the big data problem, his outstanding achievements in scientific research in advanced database architectures and his pioneering work in the realization of MonetDB.

Increasingly, remote sensing data is made publicly available by organizations like ESA and NASA. Based on these data, and in combination with other sources, new valuable applications can be created. In the European research project Linked Open Earth Observation Data for Precision Farming (LEO) researchers from CWI and the University of Athens join their forces with industry partners to develop an application for precision farming.

Roberto Scopigno is the recipient of the Eurographics "Distinguished Career Award" 2014, an award given every other year to a professional in computer graphics who has made outstanding technical contributions to the field and has shaped computer graphics in Europe.