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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Jun 24

SIGMOD Opening was fully packed. Joe Hellerstein and Azza Abouzied welcomed the audience. Christos H. Papadimitriou gave an inspiring talk on "How to Build a Brain". Followed by honoring Carlo Zaniolo with the Codd Innovation Award.

photos: HPI Fotoklub/Raphael Kunert

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Jun 23

SIGMOD/PODS Impressions of Monday June 22nd.
The day took off with an amazing keynote by Virginia Vassilevska Williams and continued with PODS Awards talks, research sessions, and the DaMoN workshop. It concluded with a lovely SIGMOD reception

Copyright: HPI Fotoklub/Raphael Kunert

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Jun 23

SIGMOD Pre-Conference day started with several focused group workshops and tutorials as well as a combined warm-up session on query optimization.

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Technische Universität Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social · Jun 18

💪 Starkes Zeichen für Berlin/Brandenburg: Über 1000 führende Köpfe aus #Datenmanagement & #KI sind vom 📅 22.–27.06. in #Berlin zu Gast, um bei der @sigmod2025.bsky.social neueste Entwicklungen von #MachineLearning, CXL, #Datenschutz u.v.m. zu diskutieren.
➡️ www.tu.berlin/go277297/n72... (1/2)

Transparentes 3D-Modell eines menschlichen Gehirns auf einem beleuchteten, transparenten Sockel vor einem unscharfen Hintergrund mit elektronischen Schaltkreisen und Lichtpunkten

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Jun 16

📣 Call for Registration - SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium

Register now(!) to join us for lunch at the NRS lunch tables and a panel discussion.

Registration link:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Program:

2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_nrs.s...

SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · May 30

⚠️ 📣 Registration will close shortly!
Over 1,200 participants have already registered for the conference!

The capacity is nearly full, and only a limited number of places remain. We encourage all remaining prospective attendees to complete their registration.

2025.sigmod.org/registration...

2025.sigmod.org

SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · May 26

@papotti.bsky.social , Renée J. Miller, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Huanchen Zhang,Eric Sedlar, Dan Suciu, and Carsten Binnig

The symposium is organized by

Karima Echihabi, ‪@madelonhulsebos.bsky.social , and Remy Wang

SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · May 26

The 2025 SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium's topic is
"Crafting a Research Identity as a New Data Management Researcher in an AI-dominated Landscape"

2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_nrs.s...

We invite early career researchers and graduate students to attend this traditional symposium.

2025.sigmod.org

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · May 23

This year's SIGMOD offers two excursions for spouses and partners of conference attendees to experience the historical sites of Berlin. 🕍 🏰

For more details checkout the conference website:

2025.sigmod.org/partner_prog...

2025.sigmod.org

SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · May 13

📣 🏆 These PODS'25 PC members have provided outstanding service to the committee. The selection was made by the Associate Editors and the PODS PC Chair.

Mahmoud Abo Khamis,
Omri Ben-Eliezer,
Wolfgang Gatterbauer,
Peter Lindner,
Sebastian Skritek.

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · May 8

📣 Don't forget to register for SIGMOD/PODS 2025 conference and workshops. The early bird deadline is within 10 days:

2025.sigmod.org/registration...

Hope to see many colleagues in Berlin!

2025.sigmod.org

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

Along come best artifacts that will be honored at this years conference.

sigmod.org/sigmod-award...

ACM SIGMOD “Best Artifact” Award – SIGMOD Website

sigmod.org

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

📣 📣 📣 Reproducibility News

The artifact evaluation for SIGMOD 2024 is completed and the results are out at reproducibility.sigmod.org

Holger Pirk, Natacha Crooks, and Manos Athanassoulis were chairs for SIGMOD 2024 ARI.

ACM SIGMOD Availability & Reproducibility Initiative

reproducibility.sigmod.org

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

🏆 🏆 🏆 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award 🏆 🏆 🏆

goes to

Carlo Zaniolo

"For groundbreaking contributions to database languages and query optimization on complex database models with long-lasting impact on research and industrial applications"

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

🏆 The ACM SIGMOD Systems Award 2025 goes to

Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

"for reimagining relational data management to enable serializability with external consistency at global scale"

2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_award...

2025.sigmod.org

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

🏆 The 2025 SIGMOD Contributions Award goes to

Hector Munoz-Avila and Sylvia Spengler

Citation:
"For outstanding service to the database community by initiating and supporting research, and for increasing awareness globally about the importance of database innovation."

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

🏆 The ACM SIGMOD Test of time award (2025) goes to

K-shape: Efficient and accurate clustering of time series
John Paparrizos, Luis Gravano

2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_award...

2025.sigmod.org

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 23

📣 📣 📣 We are happy to announce the SIGMOD 2025 keynotes:

1. Margo Seltzer (UBC)
"The Case for Collaboration (Everything a Database Person really needs to know about Machine Learning)"

2. Christos H. Papadimitriou (Columbia)
"How to Build a Brain?"

2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_keyno...

2025.sigmod.org

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 22

Check out the entire list of SIGMOD Awards including the distinguished AEs and Reviewers:
2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_award...

2025.sigmod.org

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 22

Bo Wang (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Jing Fang (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Yuhui Wang (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Tao Huang (Alibaba Cloud Computing),Wenpu Hu (Alibaba Cloud Computing), Jim Kao (XConn Technologies), Jianping Jiang (XConn Technologies)

SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 22

📣 📣 📣 📣 SIGMOD Industrial Paper Award 📣 📣 📣 📣
Congrats to the authors!

🏆 Unlocking the Potential of CXL for Disaggregated Memory in Cloud-Native Databases
Xinjun Yang (Alibaba), Yingqiang Zhang (Alibaba), Hao Chen (Alibaba), Feifei Li (Alibaba), Gerry Fan (XConn), Yang Kong (Alibaba)...

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 22

🏆Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt? Kaisong H. Huang (Simon Fraser University)*; Jiatang Zhou (Simon Fraser University); Zhuoyue Zhao (University at Buffalo); Dong Xie (Penn State University); Tianzheng Wang (SFU)

SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 22

📣 📣 📣 📣 SIGMOD Best Paper Awards 📣 📣 📣 📣
Congratulations to all authors!

🏆 LpBound: Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation Using Lp-Norms of Degree Sequences
Haozhe Zhang (UZ); Christoph Mayer (UZ); Mahmoud Abo Khamis (RelationalAI); Dan Olteanu (UZ)*; Dan Suciu (UW)

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 22

SIGMOD BEST PAPER Honorable Mentions
🥇 CRDV: Conflict-free Replicated Data Views
Nuno Faria (INESCTEC & U. Minho)*; José Pereira (U. Minho & INESCTEC)
🥇 DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering
Mihail Stoian (UTN)*; Andreas Kipf (UTN)

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SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 22

🏆 Fast Matrix Multiplication Meets the Submodular Width.
Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Xiao Hu and Dan Suciu

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