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May 2012 SIGMOD Blog features H. V. Jagadish on "Big Data: It’s Not Just the Analytics"

Visit the SIGMOD Blog (wp.sigmod.org) to read the H. V. Jagadish's blog on Big Data: "I was recently approached by an entrepreneur who had an interesting way to correlate short term performance of a stock with news reports about the stock. Needless to say, there are many places from which one can get the news, and what results one gets from this sort of analysis does depend on the input news sources. Surprisingly, within two minutes the conversation had drifted from characteristics of news sources to the challenges of running SVM on Hadoop. The reason for this is not that Hadoop is the right infrastructure for this problem. But rather that the problem can legitimately be considered a Big Data problem. In consequence, in the minds of many, it must be addressed by running analytics in the cloud."

2012 ACM SIGMOD Awards

Dr. Bruce Lindsay is the recipient of the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award, Dr. Marianne Winslett is the recipient of the SIGMOD Contribution Award, and "Executing SQL over Encrypted Data in the Database-Service-Provider Model" by Hakan Hacigumus, Bala Iyer, Chen Li, Sharad Mehrotra earns the SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award

Hanan Samet wins the 2011 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award

For fundamental contributions to the development of multidimensional spatial data structures and indexing.

Joseph Hellerstein blogs on MADlib for the ACM SIGMOD Blog

Joseph Hellerstein blogs on MADlib at the ACM SIGMOD Blog (wp.sigmod.org/?page_id=52). MADlib is an open-source library of scalable in-database algorithms for machine learning, statistics and other analytic tasks. MADlib is supported with people-power from Greenplum; researchers at Berkeley, Florida and Wisconsin are also contributing. The project recently released a MADlib TR, and is now welcoming additional community contributions.

ACM SIGMOD Student Member Scholarships for ACM Turing Celebration

Application deadline: April 7, 2012

ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2012 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

This year's conference will be held in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

Ronald Fagin is the 2012 W. Wallace McDowell Award Recipient

Congratulations!

2012 ACM SIGMOD Awards

Call for Nominations, Deadline April 9, 2012

Jennifer Widom is the ACM SIGMOD Blog's featured blogger!

Visit wp.sigmod.org to read Jennifer Widom's blog post. You can post comments and participate in the discussion. You can also sign up using your Facebook account. In this way, people will be able to see your photo and your name next to your comments!

SIGMOD Blog launches!

The ACM SIGMOD Blog is the official blog site for ACM SIGMOD. Its purpose is to catch the heartbeat of our community on exciting and controversial topics that are of interest to the community, and facilitate discussions among researchers on such topics!