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Three Ph.D. students are selected as finalist for SIGMOD Ph.D programming contest

May 20, 2011

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A group of three CS Ph.D. students is selected as finalists in SIGMOD 2011 Programming contest.  The group is led by a first-year Ph.D student Ahmed Eldawy with Emery Mizero and Mohamed Khalefa as members. The group is advised by Professor Mohamed Mokbel. The group is awarded a $4,000 award to attend ACM SIGMOD 2011 in Athens, June 2011. The SIGMOD programming contest is sponsored by NSF and Microsoft. The task for this contest is to implement a high-throughput main-memory index that uses flash-based SSDs for durability. Details about the SIGMOD programming contest are available here: Third Annual SIGMOD Programming Contest

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