diff --git a/db/cv/okennedy.json b/db/cv/okennedy.json index 805c0a35..8c079a60 100644 --- a/db/cv/okennedy.json +++ b/db/cv/okennedy.json @@ -158,6 +158,14 @@ "type" : "award", "source" : "UB", "individual" : "YES" + }, + { + "description" : + "The SIGMOD 2019 paper titled \"Uncertainty Annotated Databases - A Lightweight Approach for Approximating Certain Answers\" received the 2020 SIGMOD Reproducability Award", + "year" : 2020, + "type" : "best-paper", + "source" : "SIGMOD", + "individual" : "NO" } ], "chairs" : [ diff --git a/src/news/2020-06-01-UADBs-Win-Reproducibility-Award.md b/src/news/2020-06-01-UADBs-Win-Reproducibility-Award.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..96b66cf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/news/2020-06-01-UADBs-Win-Reproducibility-Award.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: UADBs win Reproducibility Award +author: Oliver Kennedy +--- + +Probabilistic and Incomplete databases are a principled way to handle data that +isn't perfect (and really, who's data is perfect). Unfortunately, pretty much +every PDB and IDB developed to date is insanely slower than their deterministic +counterparts (to say nothing of how complex and finicky they are to use +correctly). That's why, in collaboration with IIT, for the past five years, +we've been working towards a more user-friendly approach to incomplete data +management. Instead of trying to give people perfect answers, we just help +them keep track of *what* is uncertain through annotations and provenance +trickery. In other words, we're developing an Uncertainty Annotated Database +System (or UADB). + +Thanks in large part to the heroic efforts of [Su Feng](http://cs.iit.edu/~dbgroup/members/sfeng.html), +our [latest UADB paper](https://odin.cse.buffalo.edu/papers/2019/SIGMOD-UADBs.pdf) +received the [SIGMOD 2020 Reproducibility Award](http://db-reproducibility.seas.harvard.edu/). +