The SIGMOD Awards Committee invites nominations for the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and the SIGMOD Contributions Award. The nomination deadline for all awards is March 13, 2016. 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 […]
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2016 Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Applications and nominations for the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum must be completed by February 3, 2016. The Heidelberg Laureate Forum was created by the Klaus Tschira Foundation, the Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies, ACM, the International Mathematical Union, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to provide an opportunity for young researchers to spend […]
2015 ACM Fellows
Several members of the SIGMOD community were recognized in 2015 as ACM Fellows for Innovations in Computing. The honorees are Anastasia Ailamaki EPFL For contributions to the design, implementation, and evaluation of modern database systems Giuseppe De Giacomo Universita’ di Roma “La Sapienza” For contributions to description logics, data management, and verification of data-driven processes Jayant […]
Michael Stonebraker and Lawrence Rowe Receive the Inagural (2015) SIGMOD Systems Award
Dr. Michael Stonebraker and Dr. Lawrence A. Rowe are the recipients of the 2015 SIGMOD Systems Award for fundamental contributions to the design and implementation of modern, object-relational database systems as embodied by the Postgres DBMS. Michael Stonebraker and Lawrence Rowe 2015 SIGMOD Systems Award Dr. Michael Stonebraker and Dr. Lawrence A. Rowe are the recipients […]
Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu, Vincent Oria win the 2015 SIGMOD Test of Time award
For their Paper Entitled “Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories”. Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu, Vincent Oria Original Abstract: An important consideration in similarity-based retrieval of moving object trajectories is the definition of a distance function. The existing distance functions are usually sensitive to […]
Christopher Ré Named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow
Christopher Ré is a computer scientist democratizing big data analytics through theoretical advances in statistics and logic and groundbreaking data-processing applications for solving practical problems. Ré has leveraged his training in databases and deep knowledge of machine learning to create an inference engine, DeepDive, that can analyze data of a kind and at a […]
Jennifer Widom named the ACM-W 2015-6 Athena Lecturer
The ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to Computer Science. Jennifer received the award “For pioneering foundations, architecture, and applications of database systems.” About this Award The ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to Computer Science. Each year ACM will honor a preeminent […]
Dr. Laura Haas is the recipient of the 2015 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award
Laura Haas 2015 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award Dr. Laura Haas is the recipient of the 2015 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award for pioneering innovations in the integration of multiple, heterogeneous data sources. Details: Laura Haas is an IBM Fellow and Director of IBM Research’s Accelerated Discovery Lab. She was the […]