The ACM announced its 2016 Fellows. The SIGMOD community did quite well, congratulations to Marten Kersten, Robert Grossman, Louiqa Rashid, and Sudipta Sengupta!
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2017 Program for Research in ACM History
ACM History Committee 2017 Program for Research in ACM History The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has more than 100,000 members around the world. The ACM History Committee will support research projects related to ACM’s professional and educational activities […]
Announcing the SIGMOD 2017 Student Research Competition
There is a new event for your undergraduate and graduate students at SIGMOD 2017, the ACM student research competition. This is a *totally new event* involving three rounds of competition, and is not a poster or programming competition. In round one students will be judged on an extended abstract on their work, which will be submitted on CMT by this November, […]
ACM Webinar on Open Data Science
Overview Title: Embracing Open Data Science in Your Organization Date: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour Summary (Click here for starting time at your location) Large organizations wanting to leverage the amazing technology being developed in open source for data science in the Python, R and Spark ecosystems struggle […]
Professor Gerhard Weikum receives the 2016 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Gerhard Weikum 2016 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award Professor Gerhard Weikum is the recipient of the 2016 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award for pioneering work on the automatic construction of large knowledge bases. Details: Gerhard Weikum’s research spans three decades. He made major contributions on transactional and distributed systems, self-tuning database systems, data & […]
Professor Martin Kersten receives the 2016 SIGMOD Systems Award
Martin Kersten 2016 SIGMOD Systems Award Professor Martin Kersten is the recipient of the 2016 SIGMOD Systems Award for the design and implementation of MonetDB, a pioneering main-memory database system based on a columnar data organization. Details: Professor Martin Kersten (http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_L._Kersten) is a CWI Research Fellow (the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science Research of the Netherlands), professor at the […]
Peter Buneman, Adriane Chapman, James Cheney receive the 2016 SIGMOD Test of Time Award
Provenance Management in Curated Databases Peter Buneman, Adriane Chapman, James Cheney Original Abstract: Curated databases in bioinformatics and other disciplines are the result of a great deal of manual annotation, correction and transfer of data from other sources. Provenance information concerning the creation, attribution, or version history of such data is crucial for assessing its […]
Professor Samuel Madden receives the 2016 SIGMOD Contributions Award
Samuel Madden 2016 SIGMOD Contributions Award Professor Samuel Madden is awarded the 2016 SIGMOD Contributions award for his work on conceptualizing, instigating and shepherding the ACM SIGMOD Programming Contest through its first years.. Details: Samuel Madden is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research interests include […]
The 2016 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded to Paris Koutris
ACM SIGMOD is pleased to present the 2016 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award to Paris Koutris. Koutris completed his dissertation titled “Query Processing for Massively Parallel Systems” at the University of Washington under the supervision of Dan Suciu. The thesis brings a set of fundamental contributions to the understanding of the complexity associated with […]
Call for Nominations – 2016 SIGMOD Systems Award
The SIGMOD Systems Award is awarded to an individual or set of individuals to recognize the development of a piece of software that made a significant technical contribution to the database management field and which was made available for others to use. The nomination deadline is April 1, 2016. Overview The SIGMOD Systems Award is […]