Focus Awards 2001

Report on the 2001 SIGMOD and PODS Awards

The Annual SIGMOD and PODS Awards honor important contributors to the database field. The awards are presented at the annual SIGMOD/PODS Conference. For those of you who missed that presentation at the 2001 conference, this article reports on this year’s winners. Congratulations to all of them for these significant achievements. The SIGMOD Innovations award is given “For innovative and highly s...

Image awards

Why is the mirror neuron system so controversial? About a dozen papers have reported direct evidence for mirror neuron activity in monkeys and birds. Approximately 100 times as many papers refer to mirror neurons without directly recording their activity, often implying a link between mirror neurons and higher cognitive functions. While the existence of mirror neurons in animals is beyond doubt...

Merit awards.

Awards & Accolades

Awards & Accolades