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Michael Carey invites SIGMOD Members to attend The Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2012)

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!

ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012

The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2012 (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012) is the twentieth event in a series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of GIS ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to data storage and query processing and indexing. The conference is the premier annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL http://www.sigspatial.org/). We hope that you will be able to attend and we look forward to your participation.

August 2012 SIGMOD Blog features Donald Kossmann on "A Few More Words on Big Data."

Visit the SIGMOD Blog (wp.sigmod.org) to read Donald Kossmann's blog on "A Few More Words on Big Data."

July 2012 SIGMOD Blog features M. Tamer Özsu on "Computer science publication culture: where to go from here?"

Visit the SIGMOD Blog (wp.sigmod.org) to read M. Tamer Özsu's blog on "Computer science publication culture: where to go from here?". After reading Tamer's blog please take a survey on computer science publication models to let us hear your opinion: http://bit.ly/sigmodsurvey