The ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference was held June 29th to July 2nd in Providence, Rhode Island. Yahoo! earned three awards this year including the Best Paper Award for "Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs" by Chris Olston, Shubham Chopra and Utkarsh Srivastava. Bee-Chung Chen and Ashwin Machanavajjhala also earned Best Dissertation Runner-Up Awards for their work on “Cube-Space Data Mining” a