Sigmod 2007 pdf

To stand against it, we: Acknowledge the existence of racism within our communities and commit to defeating it. Call out and reject rationalization of incidents and distortion of information. Educate ourselves and those around us to address racism in its many forms. Stand up against the status quo by using our voice and agency. Invite the community to discuss concrete steps and commit resources to create lasting change.

We are committed to ensuring that all SIGMOD activities are carried out in an inclusive and diverse environment and we do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or any other form…. Codd Innovations Award goes to Alon Halevy for his pioneering work on the foundations of data integration, Web-scale integration, and the intelligent u…. Continuous obstructed nearest neighbor queries in spatial databases.

Query processing techniques for solid state drives. MayBMS: a probabilistic database management system. Quality and efficiency in high dimensional nearest neighbor search. Interactive anonymization of sensitive data. Hermes: a travel through semantics on the data web. Exploring biomedical databases with BioNav.

DejaVu: declarative pattern matching over live and archived streams of events. Dictionary-based order-preserving string compression for main memory column stores. A comparison of flexible schemas for software as a service. ZStream: a cost-based query processor for adaptively detecting composite events. Cost based plan selection for xpath. Monitoring path nearest neighbor in road networks. Secure kNN computation on encrypted databases. Building community-centric information exploration applications on social content sites.

Scalable join processing on very large RDF graphs. A gauss function based approach for unbalanced ontology matching. Scalable skyline computation using object-based space partitioning. Augmented social cognition: using social web technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason. DataLens: making a good first impression. Optimizing complex extraction programs over evolving text data.

Query segmentation using conditional random fields. Generic and effective semi-structured keyword search. What's on the grapevine? Attacks on privacy and deFinetti's theorem. Minimizing the communication cost for continuous skyline maintenance. Indexing correlated probabilistic databases. ORDEN: outlier region detection and exploration in sensor networks. Exploiting context analysis for combining multiple entity resolution systems.

Keyword search on structured and semi-structured data. Ranking distributed probabilistic data. Self-organizing tuple reconstruction in column-stores.

Secure outsourced aggregation via one-way chains. GAMPS: compressing multi sensor data by grouping and amplitude scaling. Peta-scale data warehousing at Yahoo! Database research in computer games. Exploring schema repositories with schemr. We know that racism: Is systemic and institutionalized.

Continues to oppress people of color around the world — denying basic human rights, denying opportunity, and even more tragically denying many of their very lives. Is learned behavior that may be unlearned through education, compassion, empathy, and action.

Drives a wedge between communities, and in doing so limits the quest for a society steeped in respect. Benefits the privileged from its existence, who must be willing to sacrifice to overcome it. To stand against it, we: Acknowledge the existence of racism within our communities and commit to defeating it.

Call out and reject rationalization of incidents and distortion of information.