Call for Nominations – 2024 ACM SIGMOD AWARDS
Nominations and inputs for the awards should be submitted via e-mail to the SIGMOD 2024 Awards Committee Chair at jag@umich.edu.
Nominations must be received by March 31st, 2024 to be considered for this year’s awards.
About the SIGMOD Awards
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. Finally, in 2015, the System award was devised to recognize impactful systems (as opposed to papers). 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.
SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
The SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award is for innovative and highly significant innovations of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of data systems. The award is given annually (if there is at least one qualified candidate) and consists of a plaque plus an honorarium of $10,000. 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), Bruce Lindsay (2012), Stefano Ceri (2013), Martin Kersten (2014), Laura Haas (2015), Gerhard Weikum (2016), Goetz Graefe (2017), Raghu Ramakrishnan (2018), Anastasia Ailamaki (2019), Beng Chin Ooi (2020), Alon Halevy (2021), Dan Suciu (2022) and Joe Hellerstein (2023).
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 innovations not already honored by a major ACM Award (e.g., the Turing Award, SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, or SIGMOD Contributions Award). A candidate can be considered for multiple awards as long as each is for a distinct innovation.
Nomination: Anyone in the field can nominate one or more persons (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a CV of the nominee, a proposed citation (up to 25 words), a succinct (100-250 words) description of the innovation, and a detailed statement to justify the nomination. Along with the nomination, up to three additional supporting letters should be submitted. 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. The Awards Committee itself is free to identify candidates for the award and is not required to pick among submitted nominations. The committee will automatically re-consider previously submitted nominations from the past two years (2022 and 2023). However, nominators are welcome to revise the supporting documents for such candidates if they so wish.
SIGMOD Contributions Award
The SIGMOD Contributions Award is for outstanding service to the database field through new community initiatives, professional service, standards activities, and research funding. The award is given annually (if there is at least one qualified candidate) and consists of a plaque plus an honorarium of $5,000. 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), Marianne Winslett (2012), H.V. Jagadish (2013), Kyu-Young Whang (2014), Curtis Dyreson (2015), Samuel Madden (2016), Yannis E. Ioannidis (2017), Z. Meral Özsoyoğlu (2018), Ahmed Elmagarmid (2019), a team consisting of Philippe Bonnet, Juliana Freire, Stratos Idreos, Stefan Manegold, Ioana Manolescu, and Dennis Shasha in 2020, Divesh Srivastava (2021), Christian Jensen (2022), and Selcuk Candan (2023).
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). A candidate can be considered for multiple awards as long as each is for a distinct contribution.
Nomination: Anyone in the field can nominate one or more persons (self-nominations are excluded). Nominations should include a CV of the nominee, a proposed citation (up to 25 words), a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution, and a detailed statement to justify the nomination. Along with the nomination, up to three additional supporting letters should be submitted. 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. The Awards Committee itself is free to identify candidates for the award and is not required to pick among submitted nominations. The committee will automatically re-consider previously submitted nominations from the past two years (2022 and 2023). However, nominators are welcome to revise the supporting documents for such candidates if they so wish.
SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award
The SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award recognizes the best paper from the SIGMOD proceedings 10 years prior, based on the criterion that the paper has had the most impact (e.g., in terms of research, methodology, products, and implementations) over the intervening decade. The award consists of a plaque and a prize of $2,000.
Eligibility: All papers published in the SIGMOD proceedings 10 years prior to the award year.
SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
The SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field. This annual award was established in 2006 by SIGMOD in conjunction with the VLDB Endowment. The award consists of a plaque and a prize of $2,000.
Eligibility: Doctoral dissertations in any area of database research that have been successfully defended (or, in lieu of a defense, obtained final approval) in the calendar year preceding the award year.
Nomination: Dissertation advisors are invited to nominate one candidate each year by submitting the final version of the dissertation, a summary statement of the contributions of the dissertation (not to exceed five pages), and up to three letters of recommendation. The Awards Committee will select the winning dissertation.
SIGMOD Systems Award
The SIGMOD Systems Award is for a software system whose impact on research, practice, or both, has been of lasting significance in the database area. The award is given annually (if there is at least one qualified candidate) and consists of a plaque plus an honorarium of $10,000.
Eligibility:Any database system that has been widely recognized for its impact for at least five years. Current SIGMOD elected officers (Chair, Vice Chair, and Treasurer), members of the SIGMOD Awards Committee, and individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of the system being nominated are ineligible.
Nomination: Anyone in the field can nominate a system. Nominations must include a brief description of the system and its impact, including references to significant papers about or making use of the system. The description should not exceed three pages. The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. The Awards Committee itself is free to identify candidates for the award and is not required to pick among submitted nominations. The committee will automatically re-consider previously submitted nominations from the past two years (2022 and 2023). However, nominators are welcome to revise the supporting documents for such candidates if they so wish.
The SIGMOD Awards Committee comprises:
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Angela Bonifati, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1
H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan (Chair)
David Maier, Portland State University
Sayan Ranu, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Wang-Chiew Tan, Meta
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