Yahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at SIGMOD 2009
The ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference was held June 29th to July 2nd in Providence, Rhode Island. Yahoo! earned three awards this year including the Best Paper Award for "Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs" by Chris Olston, Shubham Chopra and Utkarsh Srivastava. Bee-Chung Chen and Ashwin Machanavajjhala also earned Best Dissertation Runner-Up Awards for their work on “Cube-Space Data Mining” and "Defining and Enforcing Privacy in Data Sharing”, respectively.
The annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences.
List of Yahoo! Accepted Papers
- Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs - Christopher Olston, Yahoo! Research; Shubham Chopra, Yahoo! Research; Utkarsh Srivastava, Yahoo! Research
- Asynchronous View Maintenance for VLSD Databases - Parag Agrawal, Stanford University; Adam Silberstein, Yahoo! Research; Brian Cooper, Yahoo! Research; Utkarsh Srivastava, Yahoo! Research; Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research
- Robust XPath Expressions for Web Extraction - Philip Bohannon, Yahoo! Research; Nilesh Dalvi, Yahoo! Research; Fei Sha, University of Southern California
