The ACM SIGMOD

SIGMOD

SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases....

 Edgar F. Codd

Edgar F. Codd

Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases...

 Innovations Award is a lifetime research achievement award given by the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data, at its yearly flagship conference (also called SIGMOD). According to its homepage, it is given "for innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases". The award has been given since 1992.

Recipients

Year	Name
2011	Surajit Chaudhuri Surajit Chaudhuri Surajit Chaudhuri is a computer scientist best known for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is an ACM Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in computer...
2010	Umeshwar Dayal
2009	Masaru Kitsuregawa Masaru Kitsuregawa is a Japanese computer scientist. Currently he is a professor at the University of Tokyo.- Education :* 1978: Graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo...
2008	Moshe Y. Vardi Moshe Y. Vardi Moshe Ya'akov Vardi is a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, USA. He is the Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering, Distinguished Service Professor, and Director of the Computer and Information Technology Institute...
2007	Jennifer Widom Jennifer Widom Jennifer Widom is the chair of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University where she has worked on nontraditional data management. She is the Fletcher Jones Professor in Computer Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering...
2006	Jeffrey D. Ullman
2005	Michael Carey
2004	Ronald Fagin Ronald Fagin Ronald Fagin is the Manager of the Foundations of Computer Science group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is best known for his pioneering work in database theory, finite model theory, and reasoning about knowledge...
2003	Don Chamberlin
2002	Patricia Selinger Patricia Selinger Patricia Selinger is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow, best known for her work on relational database management systems. She played a fundamental role in the development of System R, a pioneering relational database implementation, and wrote the canonical paper on relational query...
2001	Rudolf Bayer Rudolf Bayer Rudolf Bayer has been Professor of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich since 1972. He is noted for inventing three data sorting structures: the B-tree , the UB-tree and the red-black tree.Bayer is a recipient of 2001 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award.-External links:*...
2000	Rakesh Agrawal Rakesh Agrawal Dr. Rakesh Agrawal is the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Previously he was employed for more than two decades with Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., where he was elected to the highest technical position in the...
1999	Hector Garcia-Molina Hector Garcia-Molina Héctor García-Molina is a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and ElectricalEngineering at Stanford University. He has served at the U.S...
1998	Serge Abiteboul Serge Abiteboul Serge Joseph Abiteboul is a computer scientist working in the areas of data management, database theory, and finite model theory.He received his PhD from the University of Southern California under the supervision of Seymour Ginsburg, in 1982....
1997	David Maier David Maier David Maier is a professor of computer science at Portland State University.He has been chairman of the program committee of ACM SIGMOD. He also served as an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems...
1996	C. Mohan C. Mohan C. Mohan is an IBM Fellow based at the IBM Almaden Research Center .He joined IBM Research in 1981 where he has worked on a number of topics in the areas of database, workflow and transaction management...
1995	David DeWitt David DeWitt David J. DeWitt is the John P. Morgridge Professor of at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Professor DeWitt received a B.A. degree from Colgate University in 1970, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1976...
1994	Philip Bernstein Phil Bernstein Phil Bernstein is a computer scientist specializing in database research in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. Bernstein is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and frequent committee member or chair of conferences such as VLDB and SIGMOD. He won the SIGMOD Edgar F...
1993	Jim Gray
1992	Michael Stonebraker Michael Stonebraker Michael Ralph Stonebraker is a computer scientist specializing in database research.Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational database systems on the market today...