SIGKDD Awards

The SIGKDD Test of Time Award recognizes outstanding papers from past KDD Conferences beyond the last decade that have had an important impact on the data mining research community.

SIGKDD Test of Time Award for Research

The SIGKDD Test of Time award recognizes outstanding KDD papers, at least ten years old, which have had a lasting impact on the data mining research community and continue to be cited as the foundation for new branches of research. This year, the Test of Time Award for Research goes to Victor S. Sheng, Foster Provost and Panagiotis Ipeirotis for their approach to selective acquisition of multiple labels featured in the 2008 peer-reviewed paper, “Get Another Label? Improving Data Quality And Data Mining Using Multiple, Noisy Labelers.”

SIGKDD Test of Time Award for Applied Data Science

Jie Tang, Jing Zhang, Limin Yao, Juanzi Li, Li Zhang and Zhong Su received the inaugural Test of Time Award for Applied Science in recognition of their study of mining academic social networks published in the 2008 peer-reviewed paper, “ArnetMiner: Extraction And Mining Of Academic Social Networks.” SIGKDD introduced this award to honor influential research in real-world applications of data science.