ACM SIGMOD 2012 Student Programming Contest: A Multidimensional Indexing System

ACM SIGMOD 2012 学生编程竞赛：多维索引系统

• 批准号: 1235666
• 负责人: Samuel Madden
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1235666&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ACM; SIGMOD; 2012; Student; Programming

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/).

NSF 资金为美国学生团队提供旅费资助，以参加 2012 年 5 月 20 日至 24 日在亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔举行的 SIGMOD 2012 第四届年度编程竞赛 (http://http://www.sigmod.org/2012/)。该竞赛向来自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高吞吐量内存索引系统。与往年一样，大赛的目标是： (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源代码模块； (d) 通过创建一个让学生能够脱颖而出的论坛来促进计算机科学教育； (e) 举办一个论坛，让优秀学生的解决问题和编程技能得到认可。该竞赛于 2012 年前两个季度进行，并在大会上对决赛入围者进行了评选。获胜团队将获得 SAP 捐赠的 5,000 美元奖金。此次竞赛将刺激数据库社区开发具有挑战性的研究软件的强大开源实现。这种实现具有智力价值，因为它们为其他研究人员构建工具提供了基础，学生可以学习其他人如何构建大型数据管理系统。该竞赛将吸引年轻、渴望、热衷于构建数据库社区的真实系统的学生，并将特别努力鼓励代表性不足的群体参与。编程竞赛将强调社区除了基础研究之外还重视实际的实现，并有可能产生可供社区外的研究人员使用的开源软件。欲了解更多信息，请访问程序竞赛网站 (http://wwwdb.inf.tu-dresden.de/sigmod2012contest/)。