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SIGMOD VIABILITY REVIEW

This review provides a financial summary, membership comparison, conference highlights, awards, SIGMOD Record updates, and initiatives undertaken by SIGMOD in 2009. It includes information on conferences, workshops, special issues, events, and membership programs.

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SIGMOD VIABILITY REVIEW

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  1. SIGMOD VIABILITY REVIEW Raghu Ramakrishnan March 2009

  2. FINANCIAL SUMMARY(Mary Fernandez) BUDGET ACTUAL

  3. 6th Largest SIG(Yannis Ioannidis) • 2021 members in December 2008 • Comparison with 07 06/07 06/08 • Professional 1604  1587 - 17 • Student 125  91 - 34 • Affiliate (SIG only) 362  626 +264 • Institution 3  3 -- • TOTAL 2094  2307 +213

  4. Membership in June YYYY

  5. Online vs. Print

  6. Conferences & Workshops(Lisa Singh) • SIGMOD/PODS 2008, Vancouver • 625 conference attendees • Both SIGMOD (78/435) and PODS (28/159) had an 18% acceptance rate • 8 workshops • DBTest’08 - First International Workshop on Testing Database Systems • DaMoN ’08 - Data Management on New Hardware • MobiDE ’08 - Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access • ExpDB’08 - Workshop on Performance and Evaluation of Data Management Systems • IQIS ’08 - International Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems • WebDB’08 - Workshop on the Web and Databases • XIME-P’08 - Workshop on Xquery Implementation, Experience, and Perspectives • Other conference support • WSDM – First International Conference on Wed Search and Web Data Mining (25 % sponsorship) • KDD – International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and 11 workshops (2.5% sponsorship)

  7. Awards • Both SIGMOD and PODS conferences have • Best Paper award • Test of Time award • SIGMOD (the org) also has • Contributions award • Innovation award • Doctoral Dissertation award

  8. SIGMOD Record(Alex Labrinidis) Quarterly (Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec) 8-member Editorial Board Updated design in June 2007 Special issues: COLUMNS Regular Articles, Surveys, Database Principles, Systems and Prototypes, Distinguished Profiles in Data Management Research Centers Open Forum (NEW) Event Reports • Jun 2008: Tribute to Jim Gray • 2009: 40th year anniversary of relational model

  9. Initiatives • Traveling Speakers Program • Two senior members of the community visit university campuses (in a developing country) for about two days • Lectures, discussions w/ faculty and students • Curriculum evaluation • In cooperation with VLDB Endowment • ACM History program • Membership streamlining (Online, Student, Plus) • Undergraduate scholarships to attend conferences • Conference reviewing innovations • DISC, DBLP support • Video interviews • CACM article recommendation committee

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