• SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
• SIGMOD Systems Award
• SIGMOD Contributions Award
• SIGMOD Test of Time Award
• SIGMOD Best Paper Award
• SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
• SIGMOD Undergraduate Award
• SIGMOD Special Service Award

 

SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award

For innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases. Until 2003, this award was known as the “SIGMOD Innovations Award.” In 2004, SIGMOD, with the unanimous approval of ACM Council, decided to rename the award to honor Dr. E.F. (Ted) Codd (1923 – 2003) who invented the relational data model and was responsible for the significant development of the database field as a scientific discipline. 

2015	2014	2013
Laura Haas	Martin Kersten	Stefano Ceri
[citation]	[citation]	[citation]
2012	2011	2010
Bruce Lindsay	Surajit Chaudhuri	Umeshwar Dayal
[citation]	[citation]	[citation]
2009	2008	2007
Masaru Kitsuregawa	Moshe Y. Vardi	Jennifer Widom
[citation]	[citation]	[citation]
2006	2005	2004
Jeffrey D. Ullman	Michael Carey	Ronald Fagin
[citation]	[citation]	[citation]
2003	2002	2001
Don Chamberlin	Patricia Selinger	Rudolf Bayer
[citation]	[bio]	[bio]
2000	1999	1998
Rakesh Agrawal	Hector Garcia-Molina	Serge Abiteboul
[bio]	[bio]	[bio]
1997	1996	1995
David Maier	C. Mohan	David DeWitt
[bio]	[bio]	[bio]
1994	1993	1992
Philip Bernstein	Jim Gray	Michael Stonebraker
[bio]	[bio]	[bio]

 

SIGMOD Systems Award

The SIGMOD Systems Award is awarded to an individual or set of individuals to recognize the development of a software or hardware system whose technical contributions have had significant impact on the theory or practice of large-scale data management systems. 

2015
Michael Stonebraker and Lawrence Rowe
[citation]

 

SIGMOD Contributions Award

For significant contributions to the field of database systems through research funding, education, and professional services. Recipients of the award are the following:

2015	2014	2013
Curtis Dyreson	Kyu-Young Whang	H. V. Jagadish
[citation]	[citation]	[citation]
2012	2011	2010
Marianne Winslett	Gerhard Weikum	David Lomet
[citation]	[citation]	[citation]
2009	2008	2007
Beng Chin Ooi	Klaus R. Dittrich	Hans-Jörg Schek
[citation]	[citation]	[citation]
2006	2005	2004
Tamer Özsu	Hongjun Lu	Surajit Chaudhuri
[citation]	[citation]	[citation]
2003	2002	2001
Michael Ley	Richard Snodgrass	Daniel Rosenkrantz
[citation]	[citation]	[bio]
2000		1999
Laura Haas	Michael Carey	Raghu Ramakrishnan
[bio]	[bio]	[bio]
1998	1997	1996
Won Kim	Avi Silberschatz	Jeffrey Ullman
[bio]	[bio]	[bio]
1995 (co-winner)	1995 (co-winner)	1992
Yahiko Kambayashi	Gio Wiederhold	Maria Zemankova
[bio]	[bio]	[bio]

 

SIGMOD Best Paper Award

Recipients of the award are the following:

2015	DBSCAN Revisited: Mis-Claim, Un-Fixability, and Approximation. Yufei Tao, Junhao Gan
2014	Materialization Optimizations for Feature Selection Workloads. Ce Zhang, Arun Kumar, Christopher Ré
2013	Massive Graph Triangulation. Xiaocheng Hu, Yufei Tao, Chin-Wan Chung
2012	High-Performance Complex Event Processing over XML Streams. Barzan Mozafari, Kai Zeng, Carlo Zaniolo
2011	Entangled Queries: Enabling Declarative Data-Driven Coordination. Nitin Gupta, Lucja Kot, Sudip Roy, Gabriel Bender, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch
2010	FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs. Changkyu Kim, Jatin Chhugani, Nadathur Satish, Eric Sedlar, Anthony Nguyen, Tim Kaldewey, Victor Lee, Scott Brandt, and Pradeep Dubey [award citation]
2009	Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs. Christopher Olston, Shubham Chopra, and Utkarsh Srivastava Runner-up: An Architecture for Recycling Intermediates in a Column-Store. Milena G. Ivanova, Martin L. Kersten, Niels J. Nes, and Romulo A.P. Goncalves
2008	Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases. Michael Cahill, Uwe Roehm, and Alan Fekete Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases. Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, and Houman Alborzi
2007	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases. Sergey Melnik, Atul Adya, and Philip Bernstein Scalable Approximate Query Processing with the DBO Engine. Christopher Jermaine, Subramanian Arumugam, Abhijit Pol, and Alin Dobra
2006	To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks. Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay Jain, and Luis Gravano
2004	Indexing Spatio-Temporal Trajectories with Chebyshev Polynomials. Raymond Ng and Yuhan Cai
2003	Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP. Abhinav Gupta, Andy Witkowski, Gregory Dorman, Srikanth Bellamkonda, Tolga Bozkaya, Nathan Folkert, and Lei Sheng
2001	Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Deduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases. Eamonn Keogh, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehrotra, and Michael Pazzani
2000	XMill: An Efficient Compressor for XML data. Hartmut Liefke and Dan Suciu
1999	DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses. Yannis Kotidis and Nick Roussopoulos
1998	Efficient Transparent Application Recovery in Client Server Information Systems. David Lomet and Gerhard Weikum Integrating Association Rule Mining with Relational Database Systems: Alternatives and Implications. Sunita Sarawagi, Shiby Thomas, and Rakesh Agrawal
1997	Fast Parallel Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases. Stefan Berchtold, Christian Bohm, Bernhard Braunmuller, Daniel Keim, and Hans Peter Kriegel
1996	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently. Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeffrey Ullman
1994	Fast Subsequence Matching in Time-Series Databases. Christos Faloutsos, M. Ranganathan, and Yannis Manolopoulos AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort. Chris Nyberg, Tom Barclay, Zarka Cvetanovic, Jim Gray, and David Lomet

 

SIGMOD Test of Time Award

The ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award recognizes the best paper from the SIGMOD proceedings 10 years prior (i.e., for 1998 the 1988 proceedings will be consulted), based on the criterion of identifying the paper that has had the most impact (research, products, methodology) over the intervening decade. This paper is chosen by the SIGMOD Awards Committee.

Recipients of the award are the following:

2015	Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories. Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu, Vincent Oria [award abstract]
2014	Order-Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data. Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikant, Yirong Xu [award abstract]
2013	The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor for Sensor Networks. Samuel Madden, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong [award abstract]
2012	Executing SQL over Encrypted Data in the Database-Service-Provider Model. Hakan Hacigumus, Bala Iyer, Chen Li, Sharad Mehrotra [award abstract]
2011	Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution. Jonathan Goldstein and Per-Åke Larson [award abstract]
2010	NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases. Jianjun Chen, David J. DeWitt, Feng Tian, and Yuan Wang [award abstract]
2009	Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets. Jeffrey Scott Vitter and Min Wang [award abstract]
2008	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity. William W. Cohen [award abstract]
2007	Online Aggregation. Joseph M. Hellerstein, Peter J. Haas, and Helen J. Wang [award abstract]
2006	BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases. Tian Zhang, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Miron Livny [award abstract] Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently. Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeffrey D. Ullman [award abstract]
2005	View Maintenance in a Warehousing Environment. Yue Zhuge, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jennifer Widom, Joachim Hammer
2004	From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities. Vassilis Christophides, Serge Abiteboul, Sophie Cluet, and Michel Scholl [award abstract] Shoring Up Persistent Applications. Michael J. Carey, David J. DeWitt, Michael J. Franklin, Nancy E. Hall, Mark L. McAuliffe, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Daniel T. Schuh, Marvin H. Solomon, C. K. Tan, Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Seth J. White, and Michael J. Zwilling [award abstract]
2003	Mining Association Rules Between Sets of Items in Large Databases. Rakesh Agrawal, Tomasz Imielinski, and Arun Swami [award abstract]
2002	Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst. H. Pirahesh, J. M. Hellerstein, and W. Hasan Querying Object-Oriented Databases. M. Kifer, W. Kim, and Y. Sagiv
2000	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System. Goetz Graefe Set-Oriented Production Rules in Relational Database Systems. Jennifer Widom and Shel Finkelstein
1999	F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning About Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme. Michael Kifer and Georg Lausen A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID). David A. Patterson, Garth A. Gibson, and Randy H. Katz

 

SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award

The annual ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award, inaugurated in 2006, recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field. In 2008, SIGMOD, with the unanimous approval of ACM Council, decided to rename the award to honor Dr. Jim Gray.

2015	Winners: Alexander Thomson (advisor: Daniel Abadi), Yale University Honorable Mentions: Marina Drosou  (advisor: Evaggelia Pitoura), University of Ioannina and Karthik Ramachandra (advisor: S. Sudarshan), IIT Bombay [award citation]
2014	Winners: Aditya Parameswaran (advisor: Hector Garcia-Molina), Stanford University and Andy Pavlo (advisors: Stan Zdonik and Michael Stonebraker), Brown University [award citation]
2013	Winner: Sudipto Das (advisors: Divy Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi), University of California – Santa Barbara Honorable Mentions: Herodotos Herodotou (advisor: Shivnath Babu), Duke University and Wenchao Zhou (advisor: Boon Thau Loo), University of Pennsylvania [award citation]
2012	Winner: Ryan Johnson (advisor: Anastasia Ailamaki), Carnegie Mellon University Honorable Mention: Bogdan Alexe (advisor: Wang-Chiew Tan), University of California – Santa Cruz [award citation]
2011	Winner: Stratos Idreos, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica Honorable Mentions: Todd Green, University of Pennsylvania; Karl Schnaitter, University of California – Santa Cruz
2010	Winner: Christopher Re (advisor: Dan Suciu), University of Washington Honorable Mentions: Soumyadeb Mitra (advisor: Marianne Winslett), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Fabian Suchanek (advisor: Gerhard Weikum), Max Planck Institute for Informatics [award citation]
2009	Winner: Daniel Abadi (advisor: Samuel Madden), MIT Honorable Mentions: Bee-Chung Chen (advisor: Raghu Ramakrishnan), University of Wisconsin at Madison; Ashwin Machanavajjhala (advisor: Johannes Gehrke), Cornell University [award citation]
2008	Winner: Ariel Fuxman (advisor: Renee J. Miller), University of Toronto Honorable Mentions: Cong Yu (advisor: H. V. Jagadish), University of Michigan; Nilesh Dalvi (advisor: Dan Suciu), University of Washington
2007	Winner: Boon Thau Loo (advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein and Ion Stoica), University of California at Berkeley Honorable Mentions: Xifeng Yan (advisor: Jiawei Han), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Martin Theobald (advisor: Gerhard Weikum), Saarland University
2006	Winner: Gerome Miklau (advisor: Dan Suciu), University of Washington Runners-up: Marcelo Arenas (advisor: Leonid Libkin), University of Toronto; Yanlei Diao (advisor: Michael Franklin), University of California at Berkeley

  

SIGMOD Undergraduate Award

The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) wants undergraduate students who have an interest in database systems to experience the cutting edge research presented at the ACM SIGMOD/PODS Joint Conferencess. In order to help those undergraduate students attend the conference, hence encouraging them to pursue a career related to database research, the ACM SIGMOD Undergraduate Scholarship Program was introduced by SIGMOD in 2000.

2015	Oreoluwa Babarinsa (Harvard University, USA)  Advisor: Stratos Idreos JAFAR : Near-Data Processing for Databases Trevor Clinkenbeard (University of Waterloo, Canada) Advisor: Anisoara Nica Job Scheduling with Minimizing Data Communication Costs Styliani Pantela (Harvard University, USA) Advisor: Stratos Idreos One Loop Does Not Fit All Adam Perelman (Stanford University, USA) Adviser: Christopher Ré Dunce Cap: Compiling Worst-Case Optimal Query Plans and Beyond (co-winner of best poster) Susan Tu (Stanford University, USA) Adviser: Christopher Ré Dunce Cap: Query Plans Using Generalized Hypertree Decompositions (co-winner of best poster) Mansheng Yang (National University of Singapore,Singapore) Advisor: Richard Ma Smooth Task Migration in Apache
2014	Himel Dev (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) A User Interaction Based Community Detection Algorithm for Online Social Networks Himel Dev (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) Privacy Preserving Social Graphs for High Precision Community Detection Kevin Fernandes (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) PackageBuilder: Querying for packages of tuples Curtis Kroetsch (University of Waterloo, Canada) Multi-dimensional Data Statistics for Columnar In-Memory Databases Mashaal Musleh (Umm Al-Qura University, KSA) Spatio-temporal Visual Analysis for Event-Specific Tweets Wenbo Tao (Tsinghua University, China) Efficient Top-K SimRank-based Similarity Join Min Xie (Advisors Cheng Long, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong) EDS: A Segment-based Distance Measure for Sub-trajectory Similarity Search (winner of best poster)
2013	Wladston Viana and Mirela Moro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) FriendRouter – Real time Path Finder in Social Networks Robert Christensen and Feifei Li (University of Utah) Adaptive Log Compression for Massive Log Data  (winner of best poster) Luka Maas, Thomas Kissinger, Dirk Habich, and Wolfgang Lehner (Technische Universität Dresden) BUZZARD: A NUMA-Aware In-Memory Indexing System Tian Tan, Marianne Winslett, Richard Ma, Yin Yang, Yong Yu, and Zhenjie Zhang, (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, National University of Singapore, ADSC Singapore) Resa: Realtime Elastic Streaming Analytics in the Cloud Ruizhe Huang and Lei Zou (Peking University) Natural Language Question Answering over RDF Data
2012	Gi Hwan Oh, SungKyunKwan University, Korea: Reducing Cache Misses in Hash Join Probing Phase By Pre-Sorting Strategy Razvan Ranca, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA: SigSpot: Mining Significant Anomalous Regions from Time-Evolving Network Kristina Lam Thai, University of California, San Diego, USA: Declarative Web Application Development: Encapsulating Dynamic JavaScript Widgets Frank Rosner, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany: Fast Sampling Word Correlations of High Dimensional Text Data Tyler Sliwkanich, University of Alberta, Canada: Towards Scalable Summarization and Visualization of Large Text Corpora (winner of best poster) Shangfu Peng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China: DP-tree: Indexing Multi-Dimensional Data under Differential Privacy Eduardo M. Barbosa, UFMG, Brazil: VRRC: Web Based Tool for Visualization and Recommendation on Co-Authorship Network
2010	Yael Amsterdamer, Tel Aviv University, Israel: Top-k Algorithms for Interactive Processes Ian Charlesworth, University of Waterloo , Canada: Analyzing Plan Spaces of Query Optimizers Theodore Georgiou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Greece: Extracting Topics of Debate between Users on Web Discussion Boards (winner of best poster) Zhenqiang Gong, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC): Parallel Algorithms for Top-k Query Processing Manos Karvounis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Greece: Utilizing the Quoting System of Online Web Forums to Estimate User Agreement (winner of best poster) Bharath Vissapragada, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India: Query Optimization on Cloud
2009	Daniel Scott Brotherston, University of Waterloo, Canada: Comparing and visualizing query optimizer search spaces David M. Lewis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA: An evaluative comparison of similarity coefficients for binary valued data Sang-Phil Lim, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea: FASTer FTL for enterprise-class flash memory SSDs Manasi Vartak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA: Recommendation based query relaxation via mapping functions and space partitioning Shashank Yaduvanshi, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India: An architecture for regulatory compliant database management
2008	Sriram Vanama, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Sanghoon Cha, Brown University, USA Alban Galland, University Telecom Paris Tech, France Alexander G. Connor, University of Pittsburgh, USA Hongyu Gao, Peking University, China Yoshishige Tsuji, Keio University, Japan Eli Cortez C. Vilarinho, Universidade Federal Do Amazonas, Brazil Yang Ye, Tsinghua University, China
2007	Rui Fang, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China Marcin Kwietniewski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, and York University, Canada Yin Yee (Samantha) Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Rui Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Yinan Li, Peking University, China Zhongyuan Wang, Renmin University, China Zhijun Yin, Fudan University, China
2006	Ioannis Antonellis, University of Patras, Greece Mark Daly, Princeton Univ., USA Zhiwei (Tony) Qin, University of British Columbia, Canada Morgan Jaclyn Gregory, University of British Columbia, Canada Joshua Schiffman, Penn State University, USA
2005	Arpit Jain, IIT Bombay, India Jaekyun Seok, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Naju Mancheril, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Linus Liang, University of California, Berkeley, USA Derek Dalrymple, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
2004	Andrei Arion, France Anoop Shankar, Canada Gaurav Pandey, India Shashank Pandit, India Shaveen Garg, India
2003	Eric Chu, Univ. of Washington, USA Anurag Maskey, Brandeis Univ., USA Nicoleta Preda, Politechnic Univ. of Bucharest, Romania Ping Wu, Fudan Univ., China
2002	Daniel J. Abadi Wu Cen Justin Rosenstein Yaling Pei
2001	Jason Chionh Nilesh Dalvi Antonio Gomez Markus Wawryniuk Sumit Kumar Sanghai
2000	Keiji Oenoki Matjaz Planinsic Gaurav Bhalota Ryan Huebsch Antonio Dona