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