SIGMOD

SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases.

The annual ACM SIGMOD Conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of the most important in the field. While traditionally this conference had always been held within North America, it took place in Paris in 2004, Beijing in 2007, Athens in 2011, and Melbourne in 2015. The acceptance rate of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, averaged from 1996 to 2012, was 18%, and it was 17% in 2012.

In association with SIGACT and SIGAI, SIGMOD also sponsors the annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) conference on the theoretical aspects of database systems. PODS began in 1982, and has been held jointly with the SIGMOD conference since 1991.

Each year, the group gives out several awards to contributions to the field of data management. The most important of these is the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (named after the computer scientist Edgar F. Codd), which is awarded to "innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases". Additionally, SIGMOD presents a Best Paper Award to recognize the highest quality paper at each conference, and Jim Gray Dissertation Award to the best Ph.D. thesis in data management.

Venues of SIGMOD conferences

Year	Location	Link
2025	Berlin	[1]
2024	Santiago de Chile	[2]
2023	Seattle	[3]
2022	Philadelphia	[4]
2021	Xi'an (partly virtual with a local event in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China)	[5]
2020	Portland (Held fully virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic in the United States)	[6]
2019	Amsterdam	[7]
2018	Houston	[8]
2017	Chicago (Previously planned for Raleigh but moved in protest of HB2 )	[9]
2016	San Francisco	[10]
2015	Melbourne	[11]
2014	Snowbird	[12]
2013	New York	[13]
2012	Scottsdale	[14]
2011	Athens	[15]
2010	Indianapolis	[16]
2009	Providence	[17]
2008	Vancouver	[18]
2007	Beijing	[19]
2006	Chicago	[20]
2005	Baltimore	[21]
2004	Paris	[22]
2003	San Diego	[23]
2002	Madison	[24]
2001	Santa Barbara	[25]
2000	Dallas	[26]
1999	Philadelphia
1998	Seattle
1997	Tucson
1996	Montreal
1995	San Jose
1994	Minneapolis
1993	Washington, DC
1992	San Diego
1991	Denver
1990	Atlantic City
1989	Portland
1988	Chicago
1987	San Francisco
1986	Washington, DC
1985	Austin
1984	Boston
1983	San Jose, California
1982	Orlando, Florida
1981	Ann Arbor
1980	Santa Monica
1979	Boston
1978	Austin
1977	Toronto
1976	Washington, DC
1975	San Jose

See also

• List of computer science conferences
• CIDR – Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
• VLDB – International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
• BTW, conference of the GI

External links

• SIGMOD