In 1992, ACM SIGMOD started the Annual SIGMOD Innovations Award and SIGMOD Contributions Award as part of its Awards Program. In 1999, a test-of-time award was introduced to honor a paper from ten years prior. In 2004, SIGMOD, with the unanimous approval of ACM Council, renamed the Innovations Award in honor of Dr. Edgar F. (Ted) Codd (1923 – 2003), who invented the relational data model that led to the significant development of the database field as a scientific discipline. In 2015, the System award was devised to recognize impactful systems (as opposed to papers). Finally, this year marks the introduction of the Hector Garcia-Molina mentorship award. More details about each award are below.
The recipients will receive the awards at the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference in all cases. If the award is shared among multiple recipients, each will receive a plaque, but the monetary prize will be shared.
Click here to see the call for nominations for the 2026 ACM SIGMOD Awards. Click on the link below to navigate to a specific award, its committee (if applicable), and its recipients.
- SIGMOD Best Paper Award
- SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award
- SIGMOD Best Artifact Award
- SIGMOD Contributions Award
- SIGMOD Distinguished AEs and PCs
- SIGMOD Hector Garcia-Molina Distinguished Mentorship Award
- SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
- SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
- SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
- SIGMOD Special Service Award
- SIGMOD Student Research Competition Winners
- SIGMOD Systems Award
- SIGMOD Test of Time Award
- SIGMOD Undergraduate Award