(DBWORLD) ACM-SIGMOD'97 Awards

Peter Scheuermann (peters@moon.ece.nwu.edu)
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:07:11 -0600 (CST)

1997 ACM SIGMOD AWARDS

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) and Dr. C Mohan (1996). The winners of the SIGMOD
Contributions Award were Dr. Maria Zemankova (1992), Prof. Gio Wiederhold (1993)Prof. Yahiko Kambayashi (1995) and Prof. Jeffrey Ullman (1996).

This note is intended to inform the database community of the existence
of these annual awards, and to encourage the nomination of candidates for
the awards. The nomination deadline for this year is April 12, 1997.
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-- DETAILS OF THE AWARDS --

1.A Name: SIGMOD Innovations Award.
2.A. For What:
Innovative contribution to the development or use of database
systems and databases; the contribution must have been reduced
to practice and adopted widely in significant use.

1.B Name: SIGMOD Contributions Award.
2.B For What:
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: $1,000 plus a plaque per person (or group, if it is for a group).
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.
- Contributions should date back no more than 10 years.
- The nomination procedure, etc., will be published in SIGMOD
RECORD once or twice a year.
- The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide
on zero or more winners.
- Nominations must be received by April 12, 1997 to be considered for
this year's award.
7. Receipient:
The recipient will receive the award during the opening ceremony
at the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference; he/she 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
of the SIGMOD Awards Committee.

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-- WHERE TO SEND NOMINATIONS --

Nominations should be submitted to (either via e-mail or postal mail) to the
members of the SIGMOD Awards Committee, and copied to the ACM SIGMOD chair.

SIGMOD Awards Committee:

Dr. Laura Haas
IBM Almaden Research Center, K55/B1
650 Harry Road
San Jose, CA 95120
laura@almaden.ibm.com

Prof. Peter Scheuermann
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois 60208
peters@ece.nwu.edu

Professor Witold Litwin
Universite Paris 9 Dauphine
Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny
75775 Paris Cedex 16
France
Bureau A410
litwin@etud.dauphine.fr

SIGMOD Chair:

Dr. Won Kim
UniSQL, Inc.
8911 Capital of Texas Highway
Austin, Texas 78759
kim@unisql.com

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