How to Build a Brain
Summary: Argues that databases should be studied through the computation lens, a brain-inspired, cross-disciplinary view that matured with AI. Sketches a decade of brain-inspired data-management work and shows how understanding the brain can spur new database paradigms. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Christos Harilaos Papadimitriou (Columbia University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{papadimitriou_sigmod25,
title = {{How to Build a Brain}},
author = {Papadimitriou, Christos Harilaos},
series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3722212.3724423},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3722212.3724423},
year = {2025}
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