2009 SIGMOD Programming Contest

这笔资金用于在ACM SIGMOD 2009会议上为数据库管理系统（DBMS）领域的学生举办的nsf资助的编程竞赛。来自学位授予机构的学生团队将在由DBMS专家委员会（包括主要研究人员）选择的编程任务中进行竞争。所选的课题对学生来说是令人兴奋的，不容易完成，并且具有研究潜力。竞赛的目标是：a)激发学生对DBMS领域的兴趣；b)提出一个研究挑战；促进可共享的开源代码模块的创建；d)通过创建一个让学生脱颖而出的论坛来促进计算机科学教育；d)提供一个让优秀学生获得关注的论坛，而不仅仅是写论文。该竞赛将在2009年初进行，并在SIGMOD会议上举行决赛。由DBMS公司捐赠的一笔可观的奖金（大约5000美元）将授予获胜团队。此外，会议发言的时间将使获胜者的知名度。欲了解更多信息，请访问竞赛网站http://db.csail.mit.edu/sigmod09contest/.The，赠款用于支持创建竞赛所需的基础设施（测试工具、测试数据等），并为竞赛决赛选手提供旅行补助金。如果在第一年成功，主要研究人员将把这变成一年一度的比赛。

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.