New ACM SIGMOD Officers – Angela Bonifati, Alexandra Meliou, and Manos Athanassoulis!

Dear SIGMOD members, We are pleased to announce that our SIG has new officers! Chairperson: Angela Bonifati Vice-chair: Alexandra Meliou Secretary / Treasurer: Manos Athanassoulis They took office on July 1st, 2025 picking the baton from Divy, Fatma, and Rachel. Congratulations on their election! The nomination committee for this year’s elections was:Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs-Research […]

2025 SIGMOD Awards

The 2025 SIGMOD Awards Committee comprising Sourav S. Bhowmick, Angela Bonifati, V. Jagadish, David Maier, Sharad Mehrotra (Chair), Rachel Pottinger, Sayan Ranu, Cyrus Shahabi, Wang-Chiew Tanis happy to announce the following recipients of the 2025 ACM SIGMOD awards. The SIGMOD 2025 Edgar F Codd Innovations Award goes to Carlo Zaniolo for his groundbreaking contributions to […]

Call for Nominations — SIGMOD Officer elections

The terms of current SIGMOD officers are coming to an end and there will be an election for new officers in Spring 2021. A Nominating Committee has been formed to prepare a slate of candidates for the membership to vote on. We would be happy to receive nominations for the following positions (self-nominations are welcome): […]

Call for Nominations: Editor-In-Chief ACM Transactions on Database Systems

The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a search committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EiC. Nominations, including self-nominations, are invited for a three-year term as TODS EiC, beginning on June […]

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, […]

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 […]