Seeking excellent dissertations in the database field that were completed after September 2008.

The June 2009 issue of SIGMOD Record is published online at www.sigmod.org/record/

The Web site for the 2010 SIGMOD/PODS Conference is now accessible at http://www.sigmod2010.org. The Conference will be held June 6 - 11, 2010 in Indianapolis, USA.

Electronic Proceedings for the SIGMOD 2009 and PODS 2009 Conferences are now available (http://www.sigmod.org/NEWS/09/eproceedings.30jun2009.html). Access is restricted to SIGMOD members; you will need an ACM Web Account to access them.

SIGMOD is pleased to present the 2008 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award to Daniel Abadi, PhD, for his work at the MIT and his dissertation Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems.