SIGMOD

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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.

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 and SIGART, SIGMOD also sponsors the annual ACM 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 scientist Edgar 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".

[edit] Venues of SIGMOD Conferences

Year	Place	Link
2008	Vancouver	[1]
2007	Beijing	[2]
2006	Chicago	[3]
2005	Baltimore	[4]
2004	Paris	[5]
2003	San Diego	[6]
2002	Madison	[7]
2001	Santa Barbara	[8]
2000	Dallas	[9]
1999	Philadelphia
1998	Seattle
1997	Tucson
1996	Montreal
1995	San Jose
1994	Minneapolis
1993	Washington, DC
1992	San Diego
1991	Denver
1990	Atlantic City
1989	Portland
1988	Chicago
1987	San Francisco
1986	Washington, DC
1985	Austin
1984	Boston
1983	San Jose, California
1982	Orlando, Florida
1981	Ann Arbor
1980	Santa Monica
1979	Boston
1978	Austin
1977	Toronto
1976	Washington, DC
1975	San Jose