New ACM Policy on Authorship

ACM has just released its new Policy on Authorship, which covers a range of key topics, including the use of generative AI tools. You can find the associated list of Frequently Asked Questions by visiting https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions. Shared by SIGMOD EC

Message from the ACM SIGMOD Chair

Dear ACM SIGMOD Members: On behalf of the ACM SIGMOD Executive Committee (EC), I would like to inform you about some of the happenings at ACM SIGMOD over the past couple of years. As you all know, starting July 2021, ACM SIGMOD members elected the following new officers for the 2021-2025 term: With this posting, […]

Call for Nominations – 2021 ACM SIGMOD Awards

Deadlines Nominations must be received by March 31, 2021 to be considered for this year’s award. Nominations should be sent to the email address given below. The committee will automatically re-consider previously submitted nominations for both awards from the past two years (2019 and 2020). However, nominators are welcome to revise the supporting documents for […]

Professor Goetz Graefe receives the 2017 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award

Goetz Graefe   2017 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award Professor Goetz Graefe is the recipient of the 2017 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for his foundational contributions to the architecture and implementation of database query optimizers. Details: Goetz Graefe has been a professor, product architect, and industrial researcher. He has published tutorial surveys […]

2017 ACM SIGMOD Awards – Call for Nominations

Nomination Deadline March 1, 2017 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 approval of ACM Council, renamed the Innovations Award in honor of Dr. Edgar F. (Ted) Codd (1923 – 2003), who invented the relational data […]

SIGMOD 2017 Change of Venue

Donald Kossmann JANUARY 19, 2017 SIGMOD 2017 ANNOUNCEMENT Dear members of the SIGMOD/PODS Community: On January 16 (Martin-Luther-King Day in the USA), the SIGMOD Executive Committee decided to move the ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2017 conference out of North Carolina to a new, still undecided location. The decision was made unanimously by the Committee following extensive discussions […]

SIGMOD/PODS 2017 Conference to be Moved to a Different Location

The SIGMOD Executive Committee decided to move the SIGMOD / PODS 2017 Conference to a different location. Please, do not book flights to North Carolina or make other travel arrangements at the moment. We are currently looking for a new venue. Furthermore, the SIGMOD Executive Committee will make an announcement explaining the reasons and impact […]