Congratulations to Adel Aly who won the Best Demo Award at the 29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2026) for his work on musical score database querying.
His demonstration, entitled "Where Graphs Meet Fuzzy Logic — A DBMS-Centered Engine for Polyphonic Music Matching in Score Databases", was co-authored with Oliver Pivert and Virginie Thion, all three of whom are members of the newly created Bard research team of the D7 Department.
EDBT is a mainstream conference in the field of database systems. The event took place from March 24 to 27, 2026, in Tampere, Finland.