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2011 IEEE Fellows

The IEEE has named several members of the SIGMOD community as IEEE fellows for 2011. The honorees are Divyakant Agrawal, Pierangela Samarati, Josep Domingo Ferrer, and Ouri Wolfson.

2011 ACM Fellows

The ACM has named several members of the SIGMOD community as ACM fellows for 2011. The honorees are Serge Abiteboul, Divyakant Agrawal, Christian S. Jensen, Beng Chin Ooi, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu, Margo Seltzer, Divesh Srivastava, Dan Suciu, and Amin Vahdat.

Gerhard Weikum receives the 2011 SIGMOD Contributions Award

For his significant service to the database community, through research leadership and academic mentoring.

Surajit Chaudhuri receives the 2011 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award

For seminal contributions to research that led to practical tools for automated physical database design.

Pat Selinger Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

A press release and SIGMOD Record video interview of Dr. Selinger are available.

SIGMOD 2011 Travel Grant

ACM SIGMOD Need-Based Travel Grants for Students (due: May 9th)