SIGMOD 2010 Programming Contest: Opening of the Competition

Opening of the Competition -- Second Annual SIGMOD Programming Contest Indianapolis, IN, June, 2010 http://dbweb.enst.fr/events/sigmod10contest/ We are happy to announce that the SIGMOD 2010 programming contest is now open. All relevant information can be found on the contest Web page, http://dbweb.enst.fr/events/sigmod10contest/ Student teams from degree-granting institutions are invited to compete to develop a distributed query engine over relational data. Submissions will be judged on the overall performance of the system on a variety of workloads. A shortlist of finalists will be invited to present their implementation at the SIGMOD conference in June 2010 in Indianapolis, USA. The winning team, to be selected during the conference, will be awarded a prize of 5,000 USD and will be invited to a one-week research visit in Paris. The winning system, released in open source, will form a building block of a complete distributed database system which will be built over the years, throughout the programming contests. Important Dates Friday, February 6, 2010 Evaluation infrastructure made available. Sunday, April 4, 2010 Submissions due. Friday, April 16, 2010 Notification of a shortlist of finalists. Sunday, May 30, 2010 Final submission by finalists due. 6-11 June, 2010 SIGMOD conference in Indianapolis, USA. Presentation of the works of finalists, and announcement of the winner. All deadlines are 5:00pm UTC (10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT). Organization Organizers * Pierre Senellart (Télécom ParisTech) * Clément Genzmer (Yahoo! London and Télécom ParisTech), winner of last year's contest Advisory board * Serge Abiteboul (INRIA Saclay) * Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington) * Samuel Madden (MIT) * Michael Stonebraker (MIT) Sponsorship The contest is supported by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, INRIA Saclay, Exalead, and Yahoo! Advertising the contest A (letter-sized) poster is made available for advertising the contest at http://dbweb.enst.fr/events/sigmod10contest/poster.pdf Feel free to display it in your institution.