WHAT's NEW!

2011 SIGMOD/PODS Conference Web Site Launched

http://www.sigmod2011.org

Sad news: Yuri Breitbart passed away

Yuri Breitbart, an Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor, passed away on June 13 2010.

Christian S. Jensen was elected to the Royal Danish Academy

 

Georg Gottlob was elected to the Royal Society

Georg Gottlob has made fundamental contributions to both artificial intelligence and to database systems.

SIGMOD/PODS/SOCC 2010 Keynotes & Awards Presentations Online

SIGMOD Video and Twitter are available online.

Electronic Proceedings for SIGMOD/PODS 2010 available online

 

The December 2009 issue of SIGMOD Record is available online.

 

2009 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Announcement

Winner: Christopher Re (advisor: Dan Suciu), University of Washington. Honourable Mentions: Soumyadeb Mitra (advisor: Marianne Winslett), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Fabian Suchanek (advisor: Gerhard Weikum), Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

2010 SIGMOD Awards Recipients

Umeshwar Dayal receives the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award. David Lomet receives the SIGMOD Contribution Award. Jianjun Chen, David J. DeWitt, Feng Tian, and Yuan Wang receive the SIGMOD Test of Time Award for the paper NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases.

Moshe Vardi Received the Oustanding Contribution to ACM Award

For outstanding leadership in restructuring the Communications of the ACM to be the flagship publication of both the Association and the discipline and in organizing an influential, systematic analysis of outsourcing.