The SIGMOD Contributions Award is given for significant contributions to the field of database systems through research funding, education, and professional services. The SIGMOD Awards Committee determines the recipient of the award. Recipients of the award are listed below.
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| Sihem Amer-Yahia | K. Selcuk Candan | Christian S. Jensen |
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| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
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| Divesh Srivastava | Philippe Bonnet, Juliana Freire, Stratos Idreos, Stefan Manegold, Ioana Manolescu, Dennis Shasha | Ahmed Elmagarmid |
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| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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| Z. Meral Özsoyoğlu | Yannis E. Ioannidis | Samuel Madden |
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| 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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| Curtis Dyreson | Kyu-Young Whang | H. V. Jagadish |
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| 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
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| Marianne Winslett | Gerhard Weikum | David Lomet |
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| 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
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| Beng Chin Ooi | Klaus R. Dittrich | Hans-Jörg Schek |
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| 2006 | 2005 | 2004 |
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| Tamer Özsu | Hongjun Lu | Surajit Chaudhuri |
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| 2003 | 2002 | 2001 |
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| Michael Ley | Richard Snodgrass | Daniel Rosenkrantz |
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| 2000 (co-winner) | 2000 (co-winner) | 1999 |
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| Laura Haas | Michael Carey | Raghu Ramakrishnan |
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| 1998 | 1997 | 1996 |
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| Won Kim | Avi Silberschatz | Jeffrey Ullman |
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| 1995 (co-winner) | 1995 (co-winner) | 1992 |
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| Yahiko Kambayashi | Gio Wiederhold | Maria Zemankova |
| [bio] | [bio] | [bio] |