- SIGMOD
SIGMOD is the
Association for Computing Machinery 's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems anddatabase s.The annual SIGMOD conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of the most important in the field. While traditionally this conference had always been held within North America, it recently took place in Europe (in 2004) and Asia (in 2007).
In association with
SIGACT andSIGART , SIGMOD also sponsors the annualACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) conference on the theoretical aspects of database systems. PODS began in 1982, and has been held jointly with the SIGMOD conference since 1991.Each year, the group gives out several awards to contributions to the field of data management. The most important of these is the
SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (named after the computer scientistEdgar F. Codd ), which is awarded to "innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases".Venues of SIGMOD Conferences
ee also
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VLDB - Very Large Data Bases
*ICDE - IEEE International Conference on Data EngineeringExternal links
* [http://www.sigmod.org/ SIGMOD]
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