Ben Dicken has joined our development team! Ben brings plenty of experience in static and dynamic program analysis. Ben has in fact continuously worked with Dataware since early 2013, in various student and part-time roles. We're happy that he's joining us full-time to help us continue the design and development of our products. Ben expects to receive his M.S. from the University of Arizona in May 2015. Great to have you, Ben! #personnel

The core technology offered by Dataware is field specialization. The benefit of this technology is simple to state: field specialization speeds up DBMSes by substantial amounts: 3X for some queries and approaching a factor of 2X for industry-standard benchmarks. The basic underlying approach of this technology is also easy to state: field specialization removes machine instructions that have been, through prior analyses, determined to be unneeded. Doing so requires a very car