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

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conference focused on research into new techniques for data management. It was started in 2002 by

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, 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 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) and the

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External links

CIDR website
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