2013 ACM SIGMOD AWARDS Call for nominations Deadline April 20, 2013 The SIGMOD Awards Committee invites nominations for the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and the SIGMOD Contributions Award. In addition, the awards committee welcomes nominations regarding the Test of Time Award for the paper in the 2002 SIGMOD Conference that has had the most impact since its publication. The nomination deadline for all awards is April 20, 2013. In 1992, ACM SIGMOD started the Annual SIGMOD Innovations Award and SIGMOD Contributions Award as part of its Awards Program. 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 and was responsible for the significant development of the database field as a scientific discipline. SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award ======================================= The SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award is for innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases. Previous winners of the Innovations Award are: Michael Stonebraker (1992), James Gray (1993), Philip Bernstein (1994), David DeWitt (1995), C. Mohan (1996), David Maier (1997), Serge Abiteboul (1998), Hector Garcia-Molina (1999), Rakesh Agrawal (2000), Rudolf Bayer (2001), Patricia Selinger (2002), Donald Chamberlin (2003), Ronald Fagin (2004), Michael Carey (2005), Jeffrey Ullman (2006), Jennifer Widom (2007), Moshe Vardi (2008), Masaru Kitsuregawa (2009), Umeshwar Dayal (2010), Surajit Chaudhuri (2011), and Bruce Lindsay (2012). SIGMOD Contributions Award ============================ The SIGMOD Contributions Award is for outstanding and sustained services to the database field through education, conference organizations, journals, standards activities, research funding, etc. Previous winners of the Contributions Award are: Maria Zemankova (1992), Gio Wiederhold (1993), Yahiko Kambayashi (1995), Jeffrey Ullman (1996), Avi Silberschatz (1997), Won Kim (1998), Raghu Ramakrishnan (1999), Laura Haas and Michael Carey (2000), Daniel Rosenkrantz (2001), Richard Snodgrass (2002), Michael Ley (2003), Surajit Chaudhuri (2004), Hongjun Lu (2005), Tamer Ozsu (2006), Hans-Joerg Schek (2007), Klaus Dittrich (2008), Beng Chin Ooi (2009), David Lomet (2010), Gerhard Weikum (2011), and Marianne Winslett (2012). Test-of-time award ================== There is no formal nomination process for this award, but we highly appreciate input from the database community. The SIGMOD Awards Committee is charged with selecting the paper from the SIGMOD Proceedings from 10 years ago (i.e., from SIGMOD 2002) that has best met the "test of time," that is, it has had the most influence since its publication. We are especially interested in first-hand accounts of ways in which the ideas of a paper have been used in practice. Please look at the 2003 SIGMOD Publications (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/sigmod/sigmod2003.html), and if you have any information you believe would be of use to the committee, then please send the committee a note to the address given below. Award details and nomination process (Innovations and Contributions Awards) ====================================================================== Each award is given annually (if there is at least one qualified candidate) and consists of a plaque per person plus $1000 per award (the latter to be split among a group, if it is a group award). The recipients will receive the awards at the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, at the awards session. Eligibility: 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 Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, or SIGMOD Contributions Award). Nomination: Anyone in the field can nominate one or more persons or groups (self nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words), a succinct (100-250 words) description of the innovation/contribution, and a detailed statement to justify the nomination; plain text is preferred. Along with the nomination, at least three additional supporting letters should be submitted. Such letters, however, 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 April 20, 2013 to be considered for this year's award. Nominations should be sent to the address given below. The committee will automatically re-consider nominations for both awards from the past two years (2011 and 2012). Nominators are of course free to revise the supporting documents for such candidates. WHERE TO SEND NOMINATIONS ============================= Nominations should be submitted via e-mail to the SIGMOD 2013 Awards Committee, sigmod-awards-2013@tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp. SIGMOD 2013 Awards Committee Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft Research Elisa Bertino, Purdue University Umesh Dayal, H.P. Labs Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo (chair) Maurizio Lenzerini, Sapienza Universita di Roma [See also http://www.sigmod.org/all-news/2013-acm-sigmod-awards]