The SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award is given 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.
The SIGMOD Awards Committee determines the recipient of the award.
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| Samuel Madden | Joseph M. Hellerstein | Dan Suciu |
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| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
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| Alon Halevy | Beng Chin Ooi | Anastasia Ailamaki |
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| 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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| Raghu Ramakrishnan | Goetz Graefe | Gerhard Weikum |
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| 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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| Laura Haas | Martin Kersten | Stefano Ceri |
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| 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
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| Bruce Lindsay | Surajit Chaudhuri | Umeshwar Dayal |
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| 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
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| Masaru Kitsuregawa | Moshe Y. Vardi | Jennifer Widom |
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| 2006 | 2005 | 2004 |
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| Jeffrey D. Ullman | Michael Carey | Ronald Fagin |
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| 2003 | 2002 | 2001 |
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| Don Chamberlin | Patricia Selinger | Rudolf Bayer |
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| 2000 | 1999 | 1998 |
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| Rakesh Agrawal | Hector Garcia-Molina | Serge Abiteboul |
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| 1997 | 1996 | 1995 |
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| David Maier | C. Mohan | David DeWitt |
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| 1994 | 1993 | 1992 |
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| Philip Bernstein | Jim Gray | Michael Stonebraker |
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