

Symposium, the Undergraduate Research Poster Competition, and the New Researcher Symposium are all established components of the SIGMOD program and are all part of SIGMOD 2014. SIGMOD 2014 includes several technical and social events designed specifically for student attendees. One of these sessions is jointly for PODS and SIGMOD research papers, to deepen the ties between the two conferences. In addition to having 25-minute presentation slots, research papers are included in one of two Research Plenary Poster Sessions. ) 107 research paper presentations 6 tutorials 30 demonstrations and 15 industrial presentations selected from among 44 submissions. SIGMOD 2014 hosts an exciting technical program, with two keynote talks, by Maurice Herlihy (Brown University) and Eric Sedlar (Oracle Labs) a panel session on "Should we all be teaching 'Intro to Data Science' instead of 'Intro to Databases'?," by Bill Howe (University of Washington), Michael Franklin (University of California, Berkeley), Juliana Freire (New York University), James Frew (University of California, Santa Barbara), Tim Kraska (Brown University), and Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft Corporation) an industrial panel on "Are We Experiencing a Big Data Bubble?," by Fatma Özcan (IBM Almaden Research Center), Daniel Abadi (Yale University), Marcel Kornacker (Cloudera), C Mohan (IBM Almaden Research Center), Karthik Ramasamy (Twitter), and Janet Wiener (Facebook, Inc. The mountain scenery of Snowbird is also adjacent to the urban environment of Salt Lake City. Many attractions, parks, and recreational areas - including the Yellowstone, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Great Basin, Canyonlands, and Arches national parks - are within a day's drive. Snowbird is a mountain ski and summer resort.


We are delighted to welcome you to SIGMOD 2014, the 2014 edition of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, at Snowbird, Utah, in the Rocky Mountains of the United States.
