Raghu Ramakrishnan is the winner of ACM SIGKDD 2008 Innovation Award. Ramakrishnan is recognized for his seminal research on techniques for scaling data mining algorithms to large datasets, and on mining ordered and streaming data.

Proceedings of Tribute to Honor Jim Gray (June 2008 issue of SIGMOD Record) is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/jimgray.

In 2008, SIGMOD, with the unanimous approval of ACM Council, decided to rename the SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award to SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, to honor Dr. Jim Gray.

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Winner: Ariel Fuxman (advisor: Renee J. Miller), University of Toronto. Honourable Mentions: Cong Yu, University of Michigan; Nilesh Dalvi, University of Washington.

2008 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award: Moshe Y. Vardi, 2008 SIGMOD Contributions Award: Klaus R. Dittrich, 2008 SIGMOD Test of Time Award: Integration of Heterogeneous Databases without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity.

The March 2008 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/

Tribute to Honor Klaus Dittrich, July 3-4, 2008 in Zurich http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/08/klaus-dittrich.4may2008.html