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2007 SIGMOD Contributions Award
Hans-Jörg Schek

Professor Hans-Jörg Schek is the recipient of the 2007 SIGMOD Contributions Award for his significant service to the database research community, as well as the broader scientific community, as a scholar, an educator, a supervisor, a referee of and advisor for large collaborative research projects in Europe, and as an organizer of conferences, journals, and other community activities. He has also served the community through his pioneering research efforts in nested relational data management and database support for advanced applications such as office automation, engineering information management, and digital libraries.

Professor Schek's contributions are numerous. As one notable example, Professor Schek served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal, which according to Thomson's Science Citation Index, currently stands as the computer science journal with the highest impact factor. Professor Schek served as a Trustee of the VLDB Endowment, the organization that sponsors and oversees the annual VLDB Conference and its associated activities, from 1998-2006. As a teacher, Professor Schek graduated several generations of students, many of whom are today highly recognized database professors themselves. He thus played a major role in growing the European database research community. Over the years Professor Schek rang the warning bell of potential irrelevance, urging the database community to "get out of its box", engage with other communities, and move from traditional databases to more general, diverse, and universal data management. He modeled this philosophy through his research and worked to broaden the scope of the VLDB Conference and the VLDB Journal. He served and continues to serve as a role model for numerous young scientists, both his own students and others in our field, with his dedication to community service, to database research, and to the continued vitality of the field.

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