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Call for Nominations

In 1992, ACM SIGMOD started the Annual "SIGMOD Innovations Award" and "SIGMOD Contributions Award" as part of its Awards Program. The previous winners of the SIGMOD Innovations Award were Prof. Michael Stonebraker (1992), Dr. James Gray (1993), Dr. Philip Bernstein (1994), Prof. David DeWitt (1995), Dr. C Mohan (1996), Prof. David Maier (1997), Dr. Serge Abiteboul (1998), Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina (1999), and Dr. Rakesh Agrawal (2000). The winners of the SIGMOD Contributions Award were Dr. Maria Zemankova (1992), Prof. Gio Wiederhold (1993), Prof. Yahiko Kambayashi (1995), Prof. Jeffrey Ullman (1996), Dr. Avi Silberschatz (1997), Dr. Won Kim (1998), Prof. Raghu Ramakrishnan (1999), and Drs. Michael Carey and Laura Haas (2000).

The SIGMOD Awards Committee is now open to receiving nominations for the SIGMOD Innovations Award and SIGMOD Contributions award. The nomination deadline for this year is March 23, 2001.

The detailed award criteria and nomination procedure are described below. This year, the award criteria have changed in three respects:

1. The requirement that the Innovations and Contributions awards be given only "for contributions that date back no more than 10 years" has been dropped. There is no longer a time limit.

2. Eligibility for the Innovations award has been broadened to "Innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases." thereby dropping the phrase: "the contribution must have been reduced to practice and adopted widely in significant use."

3. The following requirement has been added: "Awards should be for contributions not already honored by a major ACM Award (e.g., the Turing Award, SIGMOD Innovations Award, or SIGMOD Contributions Award)."

1. SIGMOD Innovations Award.
   For innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases.

2. SIGMOD Contributions Award.
   For outstanding and sustained services to the database field through education, conference organizations, journals, standards activities, research funding, etc.

3. Given: Annually (if there is at least one qualified candidate).

4. Award: A plaque per person plus $1000 per award (the latter to be split among a group, if it is a group award)

5. Administration: Administered by the SIGMOD Awards Committee.

6. Nomination/Evaluation Procedures: Anyone in the field can nominate one or more persons or group. Nominations should include a 200-500 word statement to justify the nomination. Up to two (2) additional supporting letters may be submitted. However, such letters should not be simple endorsements of the nomination, but convey additional factual information. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. Nominations must be received by March 23, 2001 to be considered for this year's award.

7. Recipient: The recipient will receive the award at the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, at the awards luncheon; each awardee will give a short speech (5-10 minutes).

8. Eligibility for Nomination: anyone except the current elected officers of SIGMOD (Chair, Vice Chair, and Treasurer), and members of the SIGMOD Awards Committee. Awards should be for contributions not already honored by a major ACM Award (e.g., the Turing Award, SIGMOD Innovations Award, or SIGMOD Contributions Award).

Where to Send Nominations

Nominations should be submitted (preferably via e-mail, else by postal mail) to the chair of the SIGMOD Awards Committee (Phil Bernstein), and copied to the ACM SIGMOD chair (Rick Snodgrass).

SIGMOD Awards Committee:

Professor David DeWitt
dewitt@cs.wisc.edu

Professor Yahiko Kambayashi
yahiko@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Professor Jeffrey D. Ullman
ullman@db.stanford.edu

SIGMOD Chair:
Professor Rick Snodgrass
Department of Computer Science
University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210077
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077
rts@cs.arizona.edu

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