The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EiC. Nominations, including self-nominations, are invited for a three-year term as TKDD EiC, beginning […]
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Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden, and Michael Stonebraker receive the 2017 SIGMOD Test of Time Award
Fault-tolerance in the Borealis distributed stream processing system Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker Original Abstract: We present a replication-based approach to fault-tolerant distributed stream processing in the face of node failures, network failures, and network partitions. Our approach aims to reduce the degree of inconsistency in the system while guaranteeing that available […]
SIGMOD Elections are underway
Elections for new SIGMOD officers have started. If you have received an Email from ACM’s Election Services Corp, please, follow the link in that Email and vote as soon as possible, but no later than June 9. If you have not received an Email, then you are probably not a SIGMOD member. Please, become a […]
The 2017 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded to Peter Bailis
ACM SIGMOD is pleased to present the 2017 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award to Peter Bailis. Peter completed his dissertation titled “Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases” at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Joseph Hellerstein, Ion Stoica, and Ali Ghodsi. The main contribution of Peter’s thesis is the introduction and study […]
SoCC 2017 Call for Papers
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) 2017 Dates: September 25-27th, 2017 Location: Santa Clara, California, USA Link: https://acmsocc.github.io/2017 CALL FOR PAPERS: The annual ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC’17) brings together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing. ACM SoCC’17 is the 8th edition of the premier conference on cloud computing; it is […]
Call for Nominations: Editor-In-Chief of the ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality
The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EiC. JDIQ was established in 2008 and has been quite selective, accepting approximately 20% […]
2017 ACM SIGMOD Awards – Call for Nominations
Nomination Deadline March 1, 2017 In 1992, ACM SIGMOD started the Annual SIGMOD Innovations Award and SIGMOD Contributions Award as part of its Awards Program. In 2004, SIGMOD, with the unanimous approval of ACM Council, renamed the Innovations Award in honor of Dr. Edgar F. (Ted) Codd (1923 – 2003), who invented the relational data […]
SIGMOD 2017 Change of Venue
Donald Kossmann JANUARY 19, 2017 SIGMOD 2017 ANNOUNCEMENT Dear members of the SIGMOD/PODS Community: On January 16 (Martin-Luther-King Day in the USA), the SIGMOD Executive Committee decided to move the ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2017 conference out of North Carolina to a new, still undecided location. The decision was made unanimously by the Committee following extensive discussions […]
SIGMOD/PODS 2017 Conference to be Moved to a Different Location
The SIGMOD Executive Committee decided to move the SIGMOD / PODS 2017 Conference to a different location. Please, do not book flights to North Carolina or make other travel arrangements at the moment. We are currently looking for a new venue. Furthermore, the SIGMOD Executive Committee will make an announcement explaining the reasons and impact […]
ACM Names 2016 Distinguished Members
The ACM announced its 2016 Distinguished Members. Those with ties to the database community include Sanjay Madria, Laks Lakshmanan, and Yufei Tao. Congratulations to all!