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Gerhard Weikum receives the
2011 SIGMOD Contributions Award
for outstanding service to the database community. The award recognizes his influence on collaboration and publication culture
that helped to maintain high standards of quality in face of tremendous growth and broadening of the area.
Gerhard Weikum served as PC Chair of SIGMOD, ICDE, and CIDR. As the president of the VLDB Endowment he encouraged adoption
of journal-style reviewing culture to combine the best of the conference and journal reviewing process.
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Gerard de Melo and Gerhard Weikum have received the Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award at
the 19th ACM International Conference on Information Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010),
for their paper MENTA: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia.
The 2010 edition of the ACM CIKM received a total of 945 full paper submissions, out of which two best papers were chosen based on the votes of an
Award Committee consisting
of renowned experts from multiple fields. Additionally, Gerard de Melo received a Student Travel Award for the conference.
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Gerhard Weikum has been selected as a member of acatech, the German
Academy of Science and Engineering. The organization represents the interests of German sciences and technology and supports policy makers and
society with technically qualified evaluations and recommendations. Being recommended and accepted for membership requires a high scientific standing, which
is assessed by procuring expert opinions from third parties. Gerhard Weikum was welcomed into the organization on October, 19, 2010, at the
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Gerhard Weikum has been selected as a fellow of
the German Computer Science Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik, GI).
GI Fellows are selected for outstanding scientific contributions to the field of computer science or to the Society.
The award was presented in September 2010 at the INFORMATIK 2010 in Leipzig.
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For his 2008 doctoral dissertation Automated Construction and Growth of a Large Ontology, Fabian Suchanek has received
the 2010 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Honarable Mention. The annual SIGMOD Dissertation Award recognizes excellent
research by doctoral candidates in the database field. This award, which was previously known as the SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award,
was renamed in 2008 with the unanimous approval of ACM Council in honor of Dr. Jim Gray.
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| Gerhard Weikum gave a keynote talk at the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2009). The talk was titled "Harvesting, Searching, and Ranking Knowledge from the Web" and presented the group's grand vision of turning the Web into a comprehensive knowledge base
that can be efficiently searched with high precision. |
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Two outstanding dissertations have received Honorable Mention recognizing their excellent theoretical foundations and
development of algorithms with outstanding performance gains and impact in highly relevant applications. Among them Martin Theobald for his PhD thesis
TopX: Efficient and Versatile Top-K Query Processing for Text, Structured, and Semistructured Data.
The annual SIGMOD Dissertation Award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field. For 2006, 15 extremely high-quality dissertations were
nominated by their departments. The dissertations were evaluated by the SIGMOD Dissertation Awards Committee for
technical depth and significance of the research contribution, potential impact on theory and practice, and quality of
the presentation. All submissions were of extremely high quality and SIGMOD congratulates all the nominated students and
their departments for their excellent work and contributions to our field.
The Awards Committee: Hans-Joerg Schek (Chair), Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Sophie Cluet, Tamer Ozsu for Jim Gray, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Gail Mitchell, Beng Chin Ooi. The awards have been presented at the newly established SIGMOD Award Ceremony Session. |
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