Martin L. Kersten
Martin Kersten | |
|---|---|
| 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, 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).