2010 SIGMOD Programming Contest

本基金资助在ACM SIGMOD 2010会议上为数据库管理系统（DBMS）领域的学生举办编程竞赛。来自学位授予机构的学生团队将在一个编程任务中竞争，在现有的主存索引实现之上构建一个查询执行器。竞赛的目标是：a)激发学生对DBMS领域的兴趣；b)提出研究挑战；c)鼓励创建可共享的开源代码模块；d)通过创建一个让学生发挥特长的论坛，促进计算机科学教育；提供一个论坛，让优秀的学生能够得到关注，而不是通过写论文。获胜团队将获得由微软公司捐赠的5000美元奖金。美国国家科学基金会的赠款用于为比赛提供设备和为参赛者提供旅行支持。获胜的系统将在麻省理工学院开源代码许可下向公众开放。

Abstract This grant funds a programming contest for students in the Database Management Systems (DBMS) area at the ACM SIGMOD 2010 conference. Student teams from degree-granting institutions will compete in a programming task building a query executor on top of an existing main memory index implementation. The goals of the contest are to: a) Stimulate student interest in the DBMS field; b) Present a research challenge; c) Foster the creation of sharable open source code modules; d) Foster Computer Science education by creating a forum in which students can excel; ande) Present a forum in which excellent students can get noticed, other than by writing papers. A prize of $5,000, donated by a Microsoft, Inc., will be awarded to the winning team. The NSF grant is used to provide equipment for the contest and travel support for the contestants. The winning system will be made available to the public under the MIT open source code license.