2009 SIGMOD Programming Contest

该补助金为ACM SIGMOD 2009会议上数据库管理系统（DBMS）领域的学生提供NSF资助的编程竞赛。 来自学位授予机构的学生团队将参加由DBMS专家委员会（包括主要研究人员）选择的编程任务。 所选的主题将是令人兴奋的学生，不平凡的完成，并具有研究潜力。 比赛的目标是：a） 激发学生对DBMS领域的兴趣b） 提出研究挑战c） 促进创建可共享的开放源代码模块d） 通过创建一个论坛，促进计算机科学教育，学生可以在其中脱颖而出） 提供一个论坛，让优秀的学生可以得到注意，而不是通过写论文。比赛将在2009年初进行，在SIGMOD会议上的决赛选手之间的烘烤。 一个由DBMS公司捐赠的巨额奖金（约5,000美元）将颁发给获胜的团队。 此外，一个会议发言的插槽将给予可见的赢家。 欲了解更多信息，请访问竞赛网站，http://db.csail.mit.edu/sigmod09contest/.The赠款用于支持必要的基础设施（测试工具，测试数据等）的创建。比赛和比赛决赛选手的旅行赠款。 如果在第一年成功，主要研究者将把这作为年度竞赛。

This grant funds an NSF-funded programming contest for students in the Database Management Systems (DBMS) area at the ACM SIGMOD 2009 conference. Student teams from degree-granting institutions will compete in a programming task selected by a committee of DBMS experts, including the principal investigators. The topic chosen would be exciting to students, non-trivial to accomplish, and would have research potential. The goals of the contest are to:a) Stimulate student interest in the DBMS fieldb) Present a research challengec) Foster the creation of sharable open source code modulesd) Foster Computer Science education by creating a forum in which students can excele) Present a forum in which excellent students can get noticed, other than by writing papers.The contest would be conducted during early 2009, with a bakeoff among the finalists at the SIGMOD conference. A substantial prize (approximately $5,000), donated by a DBMS company, will be awarded to the winning team. In addition, a conference speaking slot will give visibility to the winner. For more information visit the contest web site, http://db.csail.mit.edu/sigmod09contest/.The grant is used to support the creation of the necessary infrastructure (test harness, test data, etc.) for the contest and for travel grants for the contest finalists. If successful in year 1, the principal investigators would make this an annual contest.