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 […]

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 […]

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 […]