Raghu Ramakrishnan 2018 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award Raghu Ramakrishnan is the recipient of the 2018 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for his pioneering work in deductive databases and their application to relational databases in practice. Details: Raghu Ramakrishnan is CTO for Data, and a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He has previously […]
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2018 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
ACM SIGMOD is pleased to present the 2018 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award to Viktor Leis. Viktor Leis is a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, where he received a doctorate in Computer Science in 2016, advised by Thomas Neumann and Alfons Kemper. Much of his research, which includes work on query […]
Michael Cahill, Uwe Röhm, and Alan Fekete receive the 2018 SIGMOD Test of Time Award
Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases Michael Cahill, Uwe Röhm, Alan Fekete Many popular database management systems implement a multiversion concurrency control algorithm called snapshot isolation rather than providing full serializability based on locking. There are well-known anomalies permitted by snapshot isolation that can lead to violations of data consistency by interleaving transactions that would maintain […]
Z. Meral Özsoyoğlu is Awarded the 2018 SIGMOD Contributions Award
Zehra Meral Özsoyoğlu 2018 SIGMOD Contributions Award Professor Zehra Meral Özsoyoğlu is the recipient of the 2017 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award for dedicated service to the database community, especially as editor in chief for ACM TODS and PVLDB, the VLDB Endowment and acting as PC chair for VLDB PC and PODS. Details: Zehra Meral Özsoyoğlu is […]
The SIGMOD Blog Features a Tribute to José Alfredo Blakeley
A TRIBUTE TO JOSÉ ALFREDO BLAKELEY José Alfredo Blakeley, Partner Architect at Microsoft, passed away on January 7th, 2018. With this “tribute”, we would like to honor his many contributions to data management. José will be sorely missed as a great scientist, mentor, colleague, and friend. José completed his undergraduate studies at Tecnológico de Monterrey, […]
Call for Nominations – 2018 SIGMOD Innovations, Contributions, and Test-of-time Awards
The SIGMOD Awards Committee invites nominations for the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, the SIGMOD Contributions Award, and the Test-of-time Award. The nomination deadline for all awards is April 2, 2018. In 1992, ACM SIGMOD started the Annual SIGMOD Innovations Award and SIGMOD Contributions Award as part of its Awards Program. In 2004, SIGMOD, […]
New ACM SIGMOD Officers – Chair: Juliana Freire, Vice-chair: Ihab Ilyas, Secretary/Treasurer: Fatma Ozcan
Dear SIGMOD members, As you may have seen already, as a result of the recent elections, our SIG has new officers: – Chair: Juliana Freire – Vice-chair: Ihab Ilyas – Secretary/Treasurer: Fatma Ozcan They took office on July 1st, picking the baton from Donald, Anastasia, and Magda. I want to […]
ACM SIGMOD 2017 Most Reproducible Paper Award Winners
This award recognizes the best papers in terms of reproducibility. The three most reproducible papers are picked every year and the awards are presented during the awards session of the SIGMOD conference (next year). Each award comes with a 750$ honorarium sponsored by IBM. The criteria are as follows: (i) coverage (ideal: all results can […]
Professor Goetz Graefe receives the 2017 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Goetz Graefe 2017 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award Professor Goetz Graefe is the recipient of the 2017 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for his foundational contributions to the architecture and implementation of database query optimizers. Details: Goetz Graefe has been a professor, product architect, and industrial researcher. He has published tutorial surveys […]
Yannis E. Ioannidis is Awarded the 2017 SIGMOD Contributions Award
Yannis E. Ioannidis 2017 SIGMOD Contributions Award Professor Yannis E. Ioannidis is the recipient of the 2017 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award for his sustained leadership and dedicated service to the database community, especially as part of the SIGMOD Executive Committee and the VLDB Endowment. Details: Yannis Ioannidis is currently a Professor at the Department of […]