Archives
September 2026
- Where Quantum Actually Meets the Database (and Where It Doesn’t) — Ibrahim Sabek, Sep 21
August 2025
- To KG or not to KG, that is the question! — Sarah Masud, Aug 20
July 2025
- Panel Summary: Where Does Academic Database Research Go From Here? — Eugene Wu, Jul 4
January 2025
- Data Exploration and Visual Analytics Challenges in AI Era — Sihem Amer-Yahia, Leilani Battle, Yifan Hu, Dominik Moritz, Aditya Parameswaran, Nikos Bikakis, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Guoliang Li, George Papastefanatos, Lingyun Yu, Jan 16
November 2024
- Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs, and Vector Databases: Synergy and Opportunities for Data Management (A Report on the LLM+KG@VLDB24 Workshop’s Panel Discussion) — Xi Chen, Wei Hu, Arijit Khan, Shreya Shankar, Haofen Wang, Jianguo Wang, and Tianxing Wu, Nov 22
October 2024
- Where Does Database Research Go From Here? — Eugene Wu, Oct 10
September 2024
- Auditing bias of recourse in classifiers (part II) — Dimitris Sacharidis - Giorgos Giannopoulos - Loukas Kavouras, Sep 25
July 2024
- Time Series Anomaly Detection — Paul Boniol - Themis Palpanas, Jul 16
June 2024
- Auditing bias of recourse in classifiers (part I) — Dimitris Sacharidis - Giorgos Giannopoulos - Loukas Kavouras, Jun 19
September 2023
- The Case for Cardinality Bounds: Principled Conservatism in Query Optimization — Kyle Deeds and Ziniu Wu, Sep 13
February 2023
- Utilizing the Synergy between Query Refinement and View Recommendation for Visual Data Exploration — Mohamed Sharaf, Feb 16
January 2023
- Why Uncertainty is Unavoidable and What We Can Do About That — Boris Glavic, Jan 24
December 2022
- Similarity Search for Scalable Data Science: The Past, Present and Exciting Road Ahead — karimaechihabi, Dec 29
October 2022
- Returning Top-K : Preference Aggregation or Sortition, or is there a Better Middle Ground? — Senjuti Basu Roy, Oct 26
September 2022
- Managing and Exploiting Massive Geolocation Data — Zhifeng Bao, Sep 17
August 2022
- A Brief History of Data Series Indexing: from Time Series to High-Dimensional Vectors and Deep Neural Network Embeddings — Themis Palpanas, Aug 25
- From Curbing Epidemics to Investing: We can Help! — Azza Abouzied, Aug 3
June 2022
- Data Management For The Metaverse — Kian-Lee Tan, Jun 10
May 2022
- Data-quality Driven Design of Databases — Sebastian Link, May 10
April 2022
- A Leap from Model-Centric to Data Centric AI — Mahsa Baktash and Zi (Helen) Huang, Apr 17
March 2022
- Robust Query Processing: A Case for Geometric Techniques — Jayant Haritsa, Mar 24
February 2022
- Natural Language-Based Exploration with Databases in Chatbot — Chris Tsapelas, Feb 23
- ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award — Vanessa Braganholo and Wolfgang Lehner, Feb 10
January 2022
- Data Science for Social Good: the STAR Mission — Reynold Cheng, Jan 26
- ACM SIGMOD Blog is 10 years old — Georgia Koutrika, Jan 25
November 2021
- Automation of Data Prep, ML, and Data Science: New Cure or Snake Oil? — Arun Kumar, Nov 10
July 2021
- SIGMOD EC on diversity and inclusion — Georgia Koutrika, Jul 2
May 2021
January 2021
- Enabling Responsible Data Science in Practice — Abolfazl Asudeh, Jan 20
December 2020
- Humans’ Role in-the-Loop — Avigdor Gal Roee Shraga, Dec 21
June 2020
April 2020
- Simulating Infection Spread — Vikram Pudi, Apr 21
March 2020
February 2020
- Scalable Data Science: A New Research Track Category at PVLDB Vol 14 / VLDB 2021 — Alon Halevy, Arun Kumar and Nesime Tatbul, Feb 10
January 2020
- The Diversity of Diversity & Inclusion — Magda Balazinska, Carlo Curino and Avrilia Floratou, Jan 7
September 2019
- Imagine all the People and AI in the Future of Work — Sihem Amer-Yahia, Sep 23
June 2019
- The Rise of Natural Language Interfaces to Databases — Kurt Stockinger, Jun 20
November 2018
- Role of AI in Enterprise Applications — Yunyao Li and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Nov 14
October 2018
- Privacy Challenges in the Post-GDPR World: A Data Management Perspective — Amol Deshpande, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Oct 9
August 2018
- ML/AI Systems and Applications: Is the SIGMOD/VLDB Community Losing Relevance? — Arun Kumar, Aug 21
June 2018
- Visual Data Exploration: A Fertile Ground for Data Management Research — Aditya Parameswaran, Jun 25
April 2018
- Data cleaning is a machine learning problem that needs data systems help! — Ihab Ilyas, Apr 18
March 2018
- On Data Exploration in the era of Big Data — Melanie Herschel and Yannis Velegrakis, Mar 22
- A Tribute to José Alfredo Blakeley — Georgia Koutrika, Mar 10
February 2018
- Courting ML: Witnessing the Marriage of Relational & Web Data Systems to Machine Learning — Azza Abouzied and Paolo Papotti, Feb 14
June 2017
- Graph Pattern Matching Queries – Approximation and User-Friendliness — Arijit Khan and Yinghui Wu, Jun 16
May 2017
- Approximate Query Processing – Where do we go from here? — Surajit Chaudhuri, May 12
April 2017
- Google Spanner: Beginning of the End of the NoSQL World? — Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran, Apr 27
February 2017
- SIGMOD 2017 New Location — Donald Kossmann, Feb 22
- The data chatbots are coming — Jignesh Patel, Feb 9
January 2017
- SIGMOD 2017 Announcement — Donald Kossmann, Jan 19
October 2016
- Thinking Spatial — Mohamed Mokbel, Oct 6
April 2016
- Reflections of a Data Skeptic — Felix Naumann, Apr 10
February 2016
- Wisdom: a “double V” for Big Data — Letizia Tanca, Feb 18
November 2015
- Data, Responsibly — Serge Abiteboul and Julia Stoyanovich, Nov 20
September 2015
- A Decade at Google — Alon Halevy, Sep 20
July 2015
- The Case for Polystores — Michael Stonebraker, Jul 13
June 2015
- Data systems that are easy to design* — Stratos Idreos, Jun 8
March 2015
- Information Hunting: The Many Faces of Recommendations for Data Exploration — Kostas Stefanidis, Eirini Ntoutsi, Haridimos Kondylakis, Mar 10
February 2015
- The elephant in the room: getting value from Big Data — Julia Stoyanovich and Fabian Suchanek, Feb 8
December 2014
- Graph data management — Amol Deshpande, Dec 9
November 2014
- Why your friends have more to be thankful for — Kristina Lerman, Nov 24
- Big Data Is Opening the Door To Revolutions: Databases Should Be Next — Michael L. Brodie, Jennie Duggan, Nov 8
August 2014
- Quality Experiments Crowdsourced — Sihem Amer-Yahia, Aug 27
June 2014
- Exploratory search: New name for an old hat? — K. Selcuk Candan, Jun 21
April 2014
- Is Query Optimization a “Solved” Problem? — Guy Lohman, Apr 10
February 2014
- Systems & Databases: Let’s Break Down the Walls — Philip A. Bernstein, Feb 24
December 2013
- Are Databases ready for Gestural Workloads? — Arnab Nandi, Dec 11
October 2013
- The Curses of Heterogeneity in Big Data — Kristina Lerman, Oct 30
September 2013
- Observation: CSers do not value themselves, nor the results of their work? — Gio Wiederhold, Sep 30
June 2013
- Hunting for the Value Gaps in Data Management, Services, and Analytics — K. Selcuk Candan, Jun 25
May 2013
- Ontology-based Data Management — Maurizio Lenzerini, May 14
March 2013
- Stop publishing so much already! — Kristina Lerman, Mar 22
- Where’s the Data in the Big Data Wave? — Gerhard Weikum, Mar 6
December 2012
- Fifty Years of Databases — Thomas Haigh, Dec 11
November 2012
- Entrepreneurship in Data Management Research — Chen Li, Nov 4
August 2012
- A Few More Words on Big Data — Donald Kossmann, Aug 7
July 2012
- Computer science publication culture: where to go from here? — M. Tamer Özsu, Jul 17
May 2012
- Big Data: It’s Not Just the Analytics — H. V. Jagadish, May 5
April 2012
- MADlib: An Open-Source Library for Scalable Analytics — Joseph Hellerstein, Apr 6
February 2012
- From 100 Students to 100,000 — Jennifer Widom, Feb 24
- The ACM SIGMOD Blog — Georgia Koutrika, Feb 10