http://www.sigmod.org/ News for the database community. ACM SIGMOD is the premier professional organization for database researchers and practitioners. ACM SIGMOD en-us http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/sigmod-logo/archive/100x32/sigmod.gif http://www.sigmod.org 100 32 http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0803/ The March 2008 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Mon, 5 May 2008 21:32:00 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/08/klaus-dittrich.4may2008.html Tribute to Honor Klaus Dittrich, July 3-4, 2008 in Zurich http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/08/klaus-dittrich.4may2008.html Sun, 4 May 2008 11:27:54 EST http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0712/ The December 2007 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:13:41 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/08/sigmod-awards.20feb2008.html The SIGMOD Awards Committee is now open to receiving nominations for the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and the SIGMOD Contributions award. In addition, the awards committee welcomes informal advice regarding the Test of Time Award for the paper in the 1998 SIGMOD Conference that has had the most impact since its publication (The nomination deadline is April 7, 2008). Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:55:50 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/acm-fellows-2007.6dec2007.html ACM has recognized 38 of its members for their contributions to computing technology that have brought advances in the way people live and work throughout the world. There are 6 ACM Fellows who contribute to database community inducted in 2007. Thu, 6 Dec 2007 04:17:50 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/jim-gray.5dec2007.html Tribute to Honor Jim Gray, May-31-2008 @ UC Berkeley. http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/jim-gray.5dec2007.html Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:15:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/klaus-22nov2007.html Sad news: Klaus Dittrich passed away on November 20, 2007. http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/klaus-22nov2007.html Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:25:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/dissertation-award.5nov2007.html Seeking excellent dissertations in the database field that were completed after September 2006. Mon, 5 Nov 2007 07:50:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0709/ The September 2007 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:55:41 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0706/ The June 2007 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:32:41 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/NEWS/07/tods-eic-17sep2007.html Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu is appointed as the sixth Editor-in-Chief of ACM TODS. Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:13:25 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/NEWS/07/kolaitis-finnish-fellow.1aug2007.html Phokion Kolaitis, IBM Almaden Research Center (on leave from UC Santa Cruz), was elected to Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Thu, 2 Aug 2007 03:26:14 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/NEWS/07/dewitt-aaas-fellow.1aug2007.html David Dewitt, University of Wisconsin, Madison, was elected to AAAS. Thu, 2 Aug 2007 03:25:14 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/NEWS/07/sigmod-award-recipients.17jun2007.html 2007 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award: Jennifer Widom, 2007 SIGMOD Contributions Award: Hans-Jorg Schek, 2007 SIGMOD Test of Time Award: Online Aggregation. Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:10:14 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/sigmod2008.02jun2007.html The Web site for the 2008 SIGMOD/PODS Conference is now accessible at http://www.sigmod08.org The Conference will be held June 9 - 12, 2008 in Vancouver, Canada. Fri, 1 Jun 2007 23:55:47 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/eproceedings.1jun2007.html Electronic Proceedings for the SIGMOD 2007 and PODS 2007 Conferences are now available at http://www.sigmod.org/eproceedings/2007/. Access is restricted to SIGMOD members; you will need an ACM Web Account to access them. Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:02:05 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0703/ The March 2007 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Thu, 31 May 2007 11:46:41 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/sigmod07-workshops.23feb2007.html Seven workshops will be held in conjunction with 2007 SIGMOD/PODS Conference. IDAR 2007 is the first SIGMOD PhD Workshop for PhD students to present their ongoing work. (http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/sigmod07-workshops.23feb2007.html) Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:57:16 EST http://www.sigmod.org/interviews The video of interviews with distinguished members of the database community is available on line at http://www.sigmod.org/interviews Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:13:36 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/sigmod-awards.10feb2007.html The SIGMOD Awards Committee is now open to receiving nominations for the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and the SIGMOD Contributions award. In addition, the awards committee welcomes informal advice regarding the Test of Time Award for the paper in the 1997 SIGMOD Conference that has had the most impact since its publication (The nomination deadline is April 2, 2007). Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:19:50 EST http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0612/ The December 2006 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:16:24 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/jim-gray-search.04feb2007.html Search is still ongoing for Jim Gray, who has been missing since Sunday. Please consider volunteering to the image tagging effort, at the Mechanical Turk. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:50:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/07/acm-fellows-2006.10jan2007.html ACM has recognized 41 of its members for their contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology. Within the database community, 9 new ACM Fellows were inducted in 2006. Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:13:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/awards.Faloutsos.15dec2006.html The ICDM Research Contributions Award is given to one individual or one group who has made influential contributions to the field of data mining. The 2006 IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award goes to Prof. Christos Faloutsos of Carnegie Mellon University, to recognize his research contributions in the areas of mining for graphs and streams, and for searching and mining temporal and video data. Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:17:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/awards.Ioannidis.12dec2006.html Yannis Ioannidis is the recipient of the 2006 nation-wide "Xanthopoulos-Pnevmatikos Award for Outstanding Academic Teaching" in Greece. The award will be presented by the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Karolos Papoulias during a special ceremony on December 14, 2006. Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:42:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/dissertation-award.19nov2006.html Seeking excellent dissertations in the database field that were completed after September 2005. Mon, 29 Nov 2006 22:40:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/sigmod-workshops.28nov2006.html We are soliciting proposals for workshops to be colocated with SIGMOD 2007, in Beijing, China (June 11-14, 2007). Proposals are due by December 15th, 2006. Mon, 29 Nov 2006 19:40:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/dbjobs.16oct2006.html After a long hiatus, dbjobs (the database of database jobs) and dbgrads (the database of graduating database students) are back online. Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:44:24 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/sigmod-photos.09sep2006.html Photos taken during the SIGMOD Business Lunch at the 2006 SIGMOD/PODS conference in Chicago, IL have been posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sigmod/ Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:04:24 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/sigmod2007.03jul2006.html The Web site for the 2007 SIGMOD/PODS Conference is now accessible at http://sigmod07.riit.tsinghua.edu.cn The Conference will be held June 11 - 14, 2007 in Beijing, China. Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:45:12 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/eproceedings.19jun2006.html Electronic Proceedings for the SIGMOD 2006 and PODS 2006 Conferences are now available at http://www.sigmod.org/eproceedings/2006/. Access is restricted to SIGMOD members; you will need an ACM Web Account to access them. Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:43:12 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0606/ The June 2006 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:47:12 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/sigmod-award-recipients.28apr2006.html 2006 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award: Jeffrey D. Ullman, 2006 SIGMOD Contributions Award: Tamer Ozsu, 2006 SIGMOD Test of Time Award: BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases and Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:45:12 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0603/ The March 2006 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:52:00 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/06/sigmod-awards.21feb2006.html The SIGMOD Awards Committee is now open to receiving nominations for the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and the SIGMOD Contributions award. In addition, the awards committee welcomes informal advice regarding the Test of Time Award for the paper in the 1996 SIGMOD Conference that has had the most impact since its publication (The nomination deadline is April 1, 2006). Tue, 21 Jan 2006 02:35:33 EST http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0512/ The December 2005 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:40:00 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/sevcik.04oct2005.html Sad news: Ken Sevcik passed away on October 04, 2005. http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/sevcik.04oct2005.html Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:07:35 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0509/ The September 2005 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/. The issue containts a special section on Scientific Workflows. Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:15:10 EDT http://www.umich.edu/sigmod-pods06 The SIGMOD/PODS conference web site is now online at http://www.umich.edu/sigmod-pods06 Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:54:23 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/NEWS/05/newofficers.24june2005.html Election Results: Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yannis Ioannidis, and Mary Fernandez are the new SIGMOD Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary/Treasurer respectively. Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:13:20 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/alberto.16june2005.html Sad news: Alberto Mendelzon passed away on June 16, 2005. http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/alberto.16june2005.html Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:22:07 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/elections.09jun2005.html Only 6 days left to vote in the SIGMOD Elections, for Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary/Treasurer. You will also be asked to vote on the updated SIGMOD Bylaws (which were last updated in 1980). Complete details at: http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/elections.09jun2005.html Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:12:07 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/eproceedings.06jun2005.html You will either need an acm.org account (or DL subscription) to access the PDF files from the SIGMOD/PODS 2005 proceedings. Complete instructions are available at http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/eproceedings.06jun2005.html Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:30:01 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/eproceedings/sigmod05 The Proceedings of the SIGMOD 2005 Conference are now available online to SIGMOD members at http://www.sigmod.org/eproceedings/sigmod05 Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:44:01 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/eproceedings/pods05 The Proceedings of the PODS 2005 Conference are now available online to SIGMOD members at http://www.sigmod.org/eproceedings/pods05 Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:44:00 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0506/ The June 2005 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Mon, 30 May 2005 07:24:00 EDT http://www.sigmod.org/elections05/index.html The 2005 SIGMOD elections will be held from April 15, 2005 till June 15, 2005. The candidates are: SIGMOD Chairperson: Ahmed Elmagarmid and Raghu Ramakrishnan -- SIGMOD Vice-Chairperson: Yannis Ioannidis and Krithi Ramamritham -- SIGMOD Treasurer: Mary Fernandez and Louiqa Raschid. Full details and candidate statements at www.sigmod.org/elections05/ Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:40:24 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/sigmod05-workshops.10mar2005.html The paper submission deadlines for the 6 workshops that are colocated with the 2005 SIGMOD/PODS conference are approaching fast: DaMoN 2005 (March 23), WebDB 2005 (March 23), MobiDE 2005 (March 24), IQIS 2005 (March 25), XIME-P 2005 (March 28), CVDB 2005 (March 31). Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:41:22 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/sigmod05-demos.07mar2005.html List of accepted demos for the 2005 SIGMOD Conference. Out of 71 papers evaluated, 24 were selected for presentation at the conference. Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:10:33 EST http://www.sigmod.org/news/05/lu.04mar2005.html Announcement about the passing of Hongjun Lu from ACM SIGMOD and the VLDB Endowment. Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:01:31 EST http://www.sigmod.org/record/issues/0503/ The March 2005 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/ Fri, 04 Mar 2005 01:14:42 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/snodgrass.03mar2005.html Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:56:26 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/pods05-accepted.19feb2005.html List of accepted papers for the 2005 PODS Conference. Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:14:18 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/rssfeed.17feb2005.html SIGMOD Online offers RSS News Feed at www.sigmod.org/rss/index.xml Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:20:05 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/sigmod05-accepted.16feb2005.html List of accepted papers for the 2005 SIGMOD Conference. Out of 431 papers evaluated, 65 were selected for presentation at the conference. Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:53:33 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/ugrad-scholarship.16feb2005.html Call for Applications for the ACM SIGMOD Undergraduate Scholarship Program (Deadline: March 25, 2005) Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:53:33 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/widom.11feb2005.html Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:53:33 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/05/sigmod-awards.24jan2005.html The SIGMOD Awards Committee is now open to receiving nominations for the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and the SIGMOD Contributions award. In addition, the awards committee welcomes informal advice regarding the Test of Time Award for the paper in the 1995 SIGMOD Conference that has had the most impact since its publication (The nomination deadline is April 1, 2005). Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:53:33 EST http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/04/acm-fellows.07dec2004.html Bubenko, Ioannidis, and Larson among the 20 new ACM Fellows announced. 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