Martin L. Kersten

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martin L. Kersten
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Oct 25, 1953(1953-10-25)
Age	71
Country	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Birth City	Amsterdam
Horoscope	Libra

Martin L. Kersten Biography

Martin L. Kersten is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on October 25, 1953 in Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands. Martin L. Kersten (born on the 25th of October, 1953) is an expert in computer science with a particular attention to databases and query optimization, as well as their application in the field of scientific databases. He is the designer of the MonetDB system, an open source column store that is used in data warehouses and Online analytical processing (OLAP) and geographic information systems (GIS). He was (co-) co-founder of several successful spin-offs from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).

In April 1992, he was appointed the director for the department of Information Systems. He also initiated his ESPRIT-III Pythagoras project aimed at testing the performance of modern databases. He was an associate professor of the Vrije Universiteit, where he taught advanced classes in databases until the middle of 1994. In 1992, he was appointed an associate faculty member of the University of Amsterdam and a full professor of multimedia databases on January of 1994.

MonetDB is a high-performance column-store relational database management system with automatic index management, flexible optimizer infrastructure, and programmable backend functionality. MonetDB (initially only called Monet) was first created by 2002 doctoral student Peter Boncz and professor Martin Kersten as part of the 1990s MAGNUM research project at University of Amsterdam. The first version under an open-source software license (a modified version of the Mozilla Public License) was released on September 30, 2004.

Kersten is an active reviewer for European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology (ESPRIT) projects and scientific publications. Moreover, he is a trustee of the VLDB Endowment board, which aims to promote and exchange scholarly work in databases and related fields worldwide. Since 2007 Kersten is also editorial board member of “PVLDB” and he served on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Database Systems journal in 2010.

Data mining projects during the 1990s demanded greater analysis-oriented database capabilities. This led to a CWI spin-off named Data Distilleries, which used earlier MonetDB implementations within the analytical software. Data Distilleries eventually became a part to SPSS in 2003. It was then purchased in 2009 by IBM during 2009.

Martin L. Kersten Net Worth

Martin L. Kersten is one of the richest Computer Scientist from Kingdom of the Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Martin L. Kersten 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began his career in the field of computer science as a research assistant in 1975. In 1979, he was a professor and researcher of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Between 1985 and the year 2000, he worked on security of databases, databases and programming languages, and developed an underlying relational DBMS which was later part of the commercial CASE environment between 1985 and 1991. He was a visiting research assistant at University of California, San Francisco (1980 and 1983) and a visiting researcher at Stanford University (2001,2002), and Microsoft Research (2005).

In 1985, he moved into Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) CWI, the nation’s research institute for computer and mathematics sciences in the Netherlands in order to create the Database Research Group. From 1986 to 1990,, he was the co-designer for his PRISMA Database Machine, which is an RDBMS designed to run a 100-node multiprocessor. In the follow-up ESPRIT-II project, Kersten was in charge of the development of a more advanced edition of SQL for documents as well as geographical data. In 1989-93, he was the leader of an initiative in the national arena of using an Amoeba distributed system to facilitate advanced database management, as well as an initiative for national formalizations of the design of databases.

Between 1997 and 2010, Kersten served as head of the Database Architectures research group at the CWI Amsterdam. Since 2011 Kersten is a research fellow at the CWI.

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In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

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Martin Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands. Martin L. Kersten celebrates birthday on October 25 of every year.