ACM SIGMOD 2012 Student Programming Contest: A Multidimensional Indexing System

美国国家科学基金会资助美国学生团队参加2012年5月20日至24日在亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔举行的第四届年度编程大赛(网址：http://www.sigmod.org/2012/).这项竞赛向学位授予机构的研究生和本科生团队开放。今年的任务是实现一个多维的高通量内存索引系统。与往年一样，竞赛的目标是：(A)激发学生对数据库管理系统领域的兴趣；(B)提出研究挑战；(C)促进创建可共享的开放源代码模块；(D)通过创建一个学生可以出类拔萃的论坛，促进计算机科学教育；以及(E)提供一个论坛，承认优秀学生的问题解决和编程技能。比赛在2012年前两个季度进行，决赛选手在大会上进行了一场烘焙比赛。由SAP捐赠的5,000美元奖金将颁发给获胜的团队。这场竞赛将刺激数据库社区开发具有挑战性的研究软件的健壮的开源实现。这种实施具有智力上的价值，因为它们提供了一个基础，其他研究人员可以在此基础上建立工具，学生可以了解其他人是如何构建大型数据管理系统的。这次比赛将吸引热衷于建立真正系统的年轻学生进入数据库社区，并将特别努力鼓励代表不足的群体参与。编程竞赛将强调，除了基础研究之外，社区还重视真正的实现，并可能导致开放源码软件，供社区外的研究人员使用。欲了解更多信息，请访问节目竞赛网站(http://wwwdb.inf.tu-dresden.de/sigmod2012contest/).

NSF funding supports travel grants for U.S.-based student teams to participate in the fourth annual programming contest held at SIGMOD 2012 in Scottsdale Arizona, May 20-24, 2012 (http:// http://www.sigmod.org/2012/). The contest is open to graduate and undergraduate teams from degree-granting institutions. This year's task is to implement a multidimensional high-throughput in-memory indexing system. As with previous years, the goals of the contest are to: (a) stimulate student interest in the database management systems 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 where students can excel; and (e) present a forum where excellent students can be acknowledged for their problem-solving and programming skills. The contest is conducted during the first two quarters of 2012, with a bake-off among the finalists at the conference. A $5,000 prize, donated by SAP, will be awarded to the winning team. This contest will stimulate the database community to develop robust open source implementations of challenging research software. Such implementations have intellectual merit in that they provide a base upon which other researchers can build tools and students can learn how others have architected large data management systems.The contest will attract young, eager, students with enthusiasm for building real systems to the database community and a special effort will be made to encourage participation from under-represented groups. The programming contest will emphasize that the community values real implementations in addition to fundamental research, and will potentially lead to open source software that will be used by researchers outside of the community. For more information see the Program Contest website (http://wwwdb.inf.tu-dresden.de/sigmod2012contest/).