Dear SIGMOD members, As you may have seen already, as a result of the recent elections, our SIG has new officers: Chair: Divyakant Agrawal Vice-chair: Fatma Ozcan Secretary/Treasurer: Rachel Pottinger They took office on July 1st, picking the baton from Juliana, Ihab, and Fatma (who picked up the baton from herself). Congratulations on […]
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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 […]
Call for Nominations: Editor-In-Chief of the ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality
The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EiC. JDIQ was established in 2008 and has been quite selective, accepting approximately 20% […]
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 […]
ACM Names 2016 Distinguished Members
The ACM announced its 2016 Distinguished Members. Those with ties to the database community include Sanjay Madria, Laks Lakshmanan, and Yufei Tao. Congratulations to all!
ACM Names 2016 Fellows
The ACM announced its 2016 Fellows. The SIGMOD community did quite well, congratulations to Marten Kersten, Robert Grossman, Louiqa Rashid, and Sudipta Sengupta!
The 2016 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded to Paris Koutris
ACM SIGMOD is pleased to present the 2016 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award to Paris Koutris. Koutris completed his dissertation titled “Query Processing for Massively Parallel Systems” at the University of Washington under the supervision of Dan Suciu. The thesis brings a set of fundamental contributions to the understanding of the complexity associated with […]