Vardi Wins ACM Presidential Award, Codd Award, and Pascal Medal

Moshe Vardi recently received the ACM Presidential Award for “his unwavering commitment in driving the ACM Job Migration Task Force and its Globalization and Offshoring of Software report, drawing worldwide attention to its wealth of information and balanced perspective.”

He is also the recipient of this year's the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award. Vardi was chosen for his contributions to the foundations of relational databases by establishing deep connections between database theory, mathematical logic, complexity theory, and AI.

SIGMOD recognized Vardi for his important contributions to query processing complexity, logics and query languages, connections between databases and other areas of computer science.

The Codd award, named for Dr. E.F. (Ted) Codd (1923–2003), inventor of the relational data model, who was also responsible for the significant development of the database field as a scientific discipline, is presented annually to those that have made “significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases.

Vardi also received the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Science and Technology in the field of Computer Science. He was chosen in recognition of his contributions in several areas of computer science that have had a fundamental and lasting impact on automatic verification, logic of knowledge, database theory, and finite-model theory. The European Academy of Sciences established the Pascal Medal in 2003 to recognize outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to science and technology and the promotion of excellence in research and education.

Rice University's Article

ACM Award Page (Prof. Vardi's Presidential Award Citation)

Full ACM SIGMOD Article

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