
Assoc. Prof. @ENSIIE & @TelecomSudParis (@IP_Paris_) #Databases #FormalMethods #TheoremProving (she/her)
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Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
What a summer 🙌 I'm really proud of hosting Declarative AI 2026 in Vilnius.
From 24 to 30 August we hosted RuleML+RR conference and the Reasoning Web Summer School.
Three days of papers, keynotes, industry talks, the Rule Challenge and Doctoral Consortium, followed by a full four day summer school on argumentation, ontologies, knowledge compilation, neurosymbolic RL, planning, causality, and provenance. That only works when many people carry the load.
Thank you to general chairs Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto and Mantas Šimkus for trusting Vilnius with the event.
Many thanks ro RuleML+RR program chairs Davide Lanti and Adrian Paschke - thank you for a dense, well-run scientific programme.
To Reasoning Web chairs Pablo Barceló and Maria Vanina Martinez, Rule Challenge chairs Szymon Bobek and Zeynep G. Saribatur, Doctoral Consortium chairs Virginijus Marcinkevičius and Sanja L., Industry Track chair Povilas Daniušis, and Networking Session chairs Shqiponja Ahmetaj and Kai Sauerwald. To publicity chair Federica Di Stefano and webpage chair Ahmet Soylu.
Special thanks to our keynote speakers Matti Järvisalo, @Thomas_Bolander and @sdumbrav, to Liana Mikaelyan for the industry talk, to Laura Kovács for the proposal session, and to all authors, presenters, session chairs and summer-school lecturers who filled the week.
Reasoning Web speakers: Antonio Rago & @Ti_Kam, Jonas Haldimann & Richard Booth, Andreas Pieris, Florent Capelli, Celeste Veronese, Hector Geffner, Emiliano Lorini, Nina Pardal
Vilnius showed itself well: Old Town walks, Misionierių Kiemas, the TV Tower dinner, Artistai, and Trakai. Thank you to everyone who came, stayed for the school, and treated the city as part of the programme.
And last but not least Artificial Intelligence Association of Lithuania, the main sponsors 3RTechnology and NVIDIA, partners Go Vilnius, VU Matematikos ir informatikos fakultetas / VU Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Artificial Intelligence Methods Lab (AIML).
Hosting Declarative AI here was a pleasure, and more announcments comming soon!
#DeclarativeAI2026 #RuleML #ReasoningWeb #DecisionCAMP #Vilnius #SymbolicAI #NeurosymbolicAI
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
I've spent months rethinking and rebuilding my programming languages course from scratch for the agentic coding era. I wrote myself a memo explaining what I'm doing. I figure others might be interested in the redesign, so here goes! Feedback welcome ofc.
docs.google.com/document/d/e…
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
🚀 Postdoc in Data Management for AI @ TU Wien (Vienna) - 3 years
Research & teaching on #dataManagement foundations for #AI and modern #AIsystems.
📅 Start: ASAP | ⏳ Deadline: Jan 8, 2026
👉 jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/261722…
Lab: dmki-tuwien.github.io/
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
"Keep the hands in mind" — indeed.
Fine motor skills (FMS) have been largely overlooked in the era of the internet. A new meta-analysis identified a positive correlation between FMS and academic success, and the details are fascinating.
The study aggregated 118 articles to check the correlation between specific sets of FMS and academic skills (Writing, Math, Reading, and Cognition).
Crucially, they distinguished between different types of motor skills:
Dexterity: Object manipulation (e.g., pegboards).
Graphomotor: Using a tool (pen/pencil) to draw symbols.
Speed: Rapid movements (tapping).
Finger Gnosia: Proprioception.
Here are the key takeaways from the study:
- The link is moderate to strong: Fine Motor Skills and academic success are significantly linked.
- It persists with age: The link exists in older students (adolescents) just as much as in young children. It is not just a developmental phase.
- Tool use matters most: Among all FMS, Graphomotor skills (using a pen/pencil) are more important for academic success than simple dexterity (moving pegs). There is a functional difference between manipulating an object and using a tool to create a symbol.
- Theory update: The data supports "Functionalism" (hands directly help learning) and "Shared Processes" (hands and brains share neural networks) as the correct way to look at this, rather than the old "Amodal" theory (hands are irrelevant).
Fine Motor Skills, and especially handwriting, deserves a comeback!
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
Off to a great start at @uniwroc ! 🚀 7 expert keynotes, 46 outstanding students from 14 countries, & 4 days of lectures, poster presentations, & social events 🤓
👉 vldb-sc25.cs.uni.wroc.pl
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.
Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.
Here's what 4 months of data revealed:
(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
Researching graph databases, SPARQL engines, or stores for Knowledge Graphs? Submit to TGDK Special Issue: Data Management for (Knowledge) Graphs. Deadline July 1st, 2025. Resources, experience reports and extended workshop/conference papers welcome. CfP: bit.ly/4luAUXZ
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
‼️Correction ‼️
Papers due March 31st 23:59 AoE 🚀
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
🚨🚨 24 more hours to register your abstracts for the GRADES-NDA workshop @SIGMODConf
Papers due March 30th 23:59 AoE 🚀
Submission link: easychair.org/conferences/?c…
Other details: gradesnda.github.io/
@sdumbrav @aroraakhilcs @olafhartig @semihsalihoglu @csaudk
❗Due to many requests, we have extended the submission deadline for GRADES-NDA@SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @SIGMODConf
New deadlines:
Abstract: March 24 AoE
Paper: March 30 AoE.
Looking forward to your contributions! ☀️
cc: @aroraakhilcs @sdumbrav @olafhartig @semihsalihoglu
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
In a recent @dagstuhl seminar we developed a research roadmap towards Computer-Using Personal Agents, which automate complex tasks like today's Computer-Using Agents, but include context via controlled access to personal knowledge graphs. Our vision paper: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/epr…
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
⏰ Reminder
- Abstract submission deadline: T - 1 week away (March 17th, AoE)
- Paper sbumission deadline: March 22nd, AoE
👉 gradesnda.github.io
cc: @aroraakhilcs @sdumbrav @SIGMODConf @csaudk @ENSIIE @TelecomSudParis @olafhartig @semihsalihoglu
⏰ Reminder: 17th of March abstract submission deadline for GRADES-NDA@SIGMOD/PODS 2025
👉 gradesnda.github.io/
cc: @gradesnda, @aroraakhilcs
Registration open until 21/04 for the 2025 VLDB Summer School - 28-31/07 - University of Wroclaw 🇵🇱
We have great lecturers on privacy preserving data management, data analytics, distributed databases, cloud computing, graph data & data(base) theory. vldb-sc25.cs.uni.wroc.pl
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: scim.ag/3WWWoSD
Together with Riccardo Tommasini, we're excited to announce Yuanyuan Tian (@yytian) & Juan Reutter as keynotes for the Transforming Graph Data Workshop @EDBT/ICDT 2025! 🌟
Join us on March 25th in Barcelona! 🇪🇸
transforming-graphs-workshop…
cc: @rictomm
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
🗓️ 1 week left to finalize your EDBT Round 1 submissions ☀️
Join us in Tampere in March 2026! 🇫🇮
👉 edbticdt2026.github.io/?cont…
cc: General Chairs - @KstsStefanidis & Zheying Zhang
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
GRADES/NDA - The 8th Joint Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems (GRADES) and Network Data Analytics (NDA) invites submissions for 2025. The deadline for submissions is March 17, 2025. Checkout the website for instructions.
gradesnda.github.io/
Stefania Dumbrava (@sdumbrava.bsky.social) retweeted
⏰ 1st Round Research Papers deadline coming up!
February 5 AoE: Paper submission
March 27 AoE: Notification
April 29 AoE: Revised paper submission
May 25 AoE: Notification for revised submission
June 9 AoE: Camera-Ready copy
👉 edbticdt2026.github.io
⏰ Last call for the Transforming Graph Data (TGD) Workshop @ EDBT 2025 🇪🇸! ☀️
Short abstracts due this Friday Jan. 31 (AoE).
Full Papers (6p LNCS) due next Friday Feb. 6th (AoE).
Submission link: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/…
Website: transforming-graphs-workshop…
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