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Volume 28 Number 3 September 1999 |
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If everything has gone as planned, then you will have noticed the new
cover design for the Record - its first update since 1986. The Record
has changed a lot since then. In 1986, Maggie Dunham ran the Record by
herself, whereas now we have a venerable board of nine Associate
Editors who are responsible for seven regular columns in addition to
the Articles, Reports, and Technical Notes that the Record has
traditionally published. Given these substantial changes, as well as
the impressive number of new initiatives going on in SIGMOD as a
whole, we decided it was time to update the look of the Record in both
its print and electronic versions. The new cover was designed by Bob
Vizzini with help from Heather Levell of ACM.
Some recent changes in the Editorial Board: Jignesh Patel from the
Univ. of Michigan has agreed to take over the ``Systems and
Prototypes'' section from Praveen Seshadri, and Ken Ross of Columbia
University will be taking over the popular ``Influential Papers''
section, which was founded by Rick Snodgrass. Also, Leonid Libkin of
Bell Labs will be editing a new section entitled ``Database
Principles'', that will be focused on presenting recent advances in
database theory in a format that will be of interest to practitioners.
This new feature will debut in the December 1999 issue. Thanks to
Praveen and Rick for their contributions to the SIGMOD
Record.
| Michael Franklin |
| July, 1999 |
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