The ACM announced its 2016 Fellows.  The SIGMOD community did quite well, congratulations to Marten Kersten, Robert Grossman, Louiqa Rashid, and Sudipta Sengupta!

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 […]

For their Paper Entitled “Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories”. Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu, Vincent Oria Original Abstract: An important consideration in similarity-based retrieval of moving object trajectories is the definition of a distance function. The existing distance functions are usually sensitive to […]

  Christopher Ré is a computer scientist democratizing big data analytics through theoretical advances in statistics and logic and groundbreaking data-processing applications for solving practical problems. Ré has leveraged his training in databases and deep knowledge of machine learning to create an inference engine, DeepDive, that can analyze data of a kind and at a […]

The ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to Computer Science. Jennifer received the award “For pioneering foundations, architecture, and applications of database systems.” About this Award The ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to Computer Science. Each year ACM will honor a preeminent […]