The ACM has named several members of the SIGMOD/PODS community as ACM fellows for 2015. The honorees include Anastasia Ailamaki, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Jayant R Haritsa, Jian Pei, and Wang-Chiew Tan.
2016 Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Applications and nominations for the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum must be completed by February 3, 2016.
Christopher Ré named a MacArthur fellow
Congratulations! Christopher was awarded a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He was recognized for his work in developing a data-inference system that analyzes data with a high degree of certainty.
Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu, Vincent Oria win the 2015 SIGMOD Test of Time award
For their Paper Entitled “Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories”.
Dr. Laura Haas is the recipient of the 2015 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award
For pioneering innovations in the integration of multiple, heterogeneous data sources.