http://www.sigmod.org daily 1 2009-12-16T08:53:02Z http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/2013-sigmod-jim-gray-doctoral-dissertation-award ACM SIGMOD is pleased to present the 2013 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award to Sudipto Das. ACM SIGMOD is also pleased to recognize Herodotos Herodotou and Wenchao Zhou for Honorable Mention for the 2013 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award. No publisher sigmod 2013-05-13T14:27:38Z News Item http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/kristina-lerman-is-the-featured-blogger-at-the-sigmod-blog Visit the SIGMOD Blog (wp.sigmod.org) to read Kristina Lerman's blog on "Stop publishing so much already!" No publisher sigmod 2013-03-22T16:26:47Z News Item http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/2012-acm-distinguished-scientists The ACM recognizes distinguished scientists in the SIGMOD community that have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field. Congratulations to the 2013 awardees! Kasim Selcuk Candan, Kimberly Keeton, Antony (Tony) L Hosking, and Torben Bach Pedersen No publisher sigmod 2013-03-08T17:31:11Z News Item http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/acm-senior-sigmod-members-from-2006-2012 The ACM has awarded senior membership to several people in the SIGMOD community from 2006 through 2012. Senior members have at least ten years of professional experience and have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers. No publisher sigmod 2013-03-08T17:15:23Z News Item http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/march-2013-sigmod-blog-features-gerhard-weikum-on-where2019s-the-data-in-the-big-data-wave-.-1 Visit the SIGMOD Blog (wp.sigmod.org) to read Prof. Gerhard Weikum's blog on "Where’s the Data in the Big Data Wave?" Prof. Weikum writes that "Big Data should be Interesting Data! There are various definitions of Big Data; most center around a number of V’s like volume, velocity, variety, veracity – in short: interesting data (interesting in at least one aspect). However, when you look into research papers on Big Data, in SIGMOD, VLDB, or ICDE, the data that you see here in experimental studies is utterly boring. Performance and scalability experiments are often based on the TPC-H benchmark: completely synthetic data with a synthetic workload that has been beaten to death for the last twenty years. Data quality, data cleaning, and data integration studies are often based on bibliographic data from DBLP, usually old versions with less than a million publications, prolific authors, and curated records. I doubt that this is a real challenge for tasks like entity linkage or data cleaning. So where’s the – interesting – data in Big Data research?" No publisher sigmod 2013-03-08T16:43:16Z News Item http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/amelie-marian-invites-sigmod-members-to-follow-sigmod-2013-on-social-media Follow news and information about the SIGMOD 2013 conference in New York City on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and the web (links to each are in the news page). No publisher curtis 2013-01-23T18:07:42Z News Item http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/december-2012-sigmod-blog-features-thomas-haigh-on-fifty-years-of-databases. Visit the SIGMOD Blog (wp.sigmod.org) to read Prof. Thomas Haigh's blog on "Fifty Years of Databases." Fifty years ago a small team working to automate the business processes of the General Electric Low Voltage Switch Gear Department in Philadelphia built the first functioning prototype of a database management system. The Integrated Data Store was designed by Charles W. Bachman, who later won the ACM’s Turing Award for the accomplishment. He was the first Turing Award winner without a Ph.D., the first with a background in engineering rather than science, and the first to spend his entire career in industry rather than academia. No publisher sigmod 2012-12-30T20:01:59Z News Item http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/2012-acm-fellows The ACM has named several members of the SIGMOD community as ACM fellows for 2012. The honorees are Gustavo Alonso, Rick Cattell, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Wenfei Fan, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Leonid Libkin, Tova Milo, Rajeev R. Rastogi, and Patrick Valduriez. No publisher sigmod 2012-12-12T04:13:35Z News Item http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/http-wp.sigmod.org-p-636 Visit the SIGMOD Blog (wp.sigmod.org) to read Prof. Chen Li's blog on "Entrepreneurship in Data Management Research." As data is becoming increasingly more important in our society, there are many successful companies doing data-related businesses. This field grows so fast that many new startups are launched with the goal to become the “next Google.” This trend also provides a lot of entrepreneurship opportunities for our community working on data management research. This blog describes my experiences of doing a startup (called SRCH2, http://www.srch2.com/) that commercializes university research. It also shares my own perspective on entrepreneurship in data management research. This blog is based on the talk that I gave at the DBRank workshop at VLDB 2012 and the talk slides are available on my homepage. No publisher sigmod 2012-11-06T02:20:27Z News Item http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/the-symposium-on-cloud-computing-socc-2012-call-for-participation The first independently-located edition of the annual ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC'12) is just around the corner - it's being held on Oct. 14-17 in San Jose (see details below). I wanted to be sure that its program was brought to the attention of all the potentially interested folks in SIGMOD-land, as SoCC is jointly sponsored by us (ACM SIGMOD) and our friends in the operating systems and distributed systems world (ACM SIGOPS), hence this e-mail. Previously we have co-located the SoCC conference with one of our groups' two main annual conferences (SIGMOD or SOSP), but this year we're trying a "solo" run of SoCC in Silicon Valley instead. As the PC co-chair from the SIGMOD side, I helped to oversee the creation of this year's program, and I think it's a strong and interesting program, so now I want to be sure that it comes to the attention of all the potentially interested folks in our community. There will be two days of technical talks (single-track, i.e., SOSP-style) followed by a day containing two parallel tracks of tutorials (be sure to check those out!). If you're interested in cloud computing, Big Data, ..., either working in the area now or thinking about it, you should seriously consider attending - and please also spread the word to your colleagues and students. I hope to see a bunch of you there at SoCC'12 next month! No publisher sigmod 2012-09-26T21:34:29Z News Item