From owner-sigmod-exec@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Mon Nov 29 16:16:52 2004 Received: from email.cs.arizona.edu (email.cs.arizona.edu [192.12.69.123]) by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07116 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:16:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from hackberry.cs.arizona.edu (hackberry.cs.arizona.edu [192.12.69.6]) by email.cs.arizona.edu (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iATNGqli061037 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:16:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from owner-sigmod-exec@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG) Received: from cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu (cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu [192.12.69.60]) by hackberry.cs.arizona.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iATNGl6G034038 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:16:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from owner-sigmod-exec@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG) Received: from ozzie.acm.org (ozzie.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu (8.12.11/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iATNGkl4025586 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:16:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from owner-sigmod-exec@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG) Message-Id: <200411292316.iATNGkl4025586@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu> Received: from ozzie (ozzie.acm.org) by ozzie.acm.org (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <5.0002BDAC@ozzie.acm.org>; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:24:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:16:44 -0700 Reply-To: rts@CS.Arizona.EDU Sender: ACM SIGMOD Executive Commitee From: Richard Snodgrass Subject: SIGMOD History Committee To: SIGMOD-EXEC@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Precedence: list X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on hackberry.cs.arizona.edu X-CS-MailScanner: Found to be clean Content-Length: 2382 To the SIGMOD EC, At the meeting in Phoenix in February was the following action item. - History of databases and SIGMOD Important to preserve SIGMOD's legacy ******************************* Action item Rick: Form committee on "database history project" and make proposal to EC ******************************* My view of the charge of this committee is to encourage research and information dissemination on the history of databases and supporting technologies (e.g., disk drives). This charge is consistent with the SIGMOD brand, "premier database community for innovative dissemination of knowledge". As a first step, the following is a list of people who may be appropriate for such a committee. Charles Bachman Phil Bernstein (goes back to CCA) Jim Gray David Lomet (goes back to DEC's RDB) Paul McJones (helped get the System R and Codd papers for the Anthology) Pat Selinger Toby Teorey (about to retire from UMichigan, but still active) Jeff Ullman (retired from Stanford) Gio Wiederhold (retired from Stanford) My guess is that not all would agree to serve on this committee (I have only mentioned this committee to Toby; the rest I haven't contacted yet). I'd like to have about six on the committee, including the chair. I'd also like to include one or two from the SIGMOD EC, but I'd like to deal with that later. One potential problem is that for some of the above people we may want to commission oral histories, which would make it a little awkward that they were on the committee. But then again, that might be true for almost anyone we consider for the committee. My conception is that this committee would meet primarily by conference call and email, though it might be useful at some point to have a face-to-face meeting, perhaps at SIGMOD (for which we would go to the EC for travel funds). So initially all we would need would be money for say six conference calls a year. Of course, as the committee did its work, it would want to come back to the EC with requests for funding (e.g., oral histories, digitization projects). I suggest an initial allocation of $3K per year, as a placeholder in the budget. I would appreciate feedback from the EC on (a) the committee's charge, (b) who might be appropriate to invite (additions to and deletions from the above list), (c) funding of the committee, and (d) any other advice. Thanks in advance, Rick