2008 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data 2008 ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems June 9-12, 2008 Vancouver, BC Canada http://www.sigmod08.org/ EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS JUST TWO DAYS AWAY! In addition to an exciting program, the conference features a banquet, which we hope will be memorable, at the world renowned Museum of Anthropology. The conference will take place at the Westin Bayshore Hotel, where a block of rooms has been reserved for attendees. Rooms can be booked at a special conference rate either online from the conference web site or over phone by quoting ``SIGMOD/PODS". Registration is now open: http://www.sigmod08.org/ The deadline for early bird registration is Friday May 9, 2008. The hotel's room block will be released after May 18, 2008, so you should make your reservations well before then to avail of the special conference rate. At this time, only a small percentage of the reservation block is still available, with less than two weeks to go. We strongly encourage you to make your reservation early in order to avoid disappointment. We look forward to seeing you at SIGMOD/PODS 2008 in Vancouver. Laks V.S. Lakshmanan & Raymond Ng Phokion G. Kolaitis SIGMOD 2008 General co-chairs PODS 2008 General Chair Dennis Shasha Maurizio Lenzerini SIGMOD 2008 PC Chair PODS 2008 PC Chair Principal Supporters: Business Objects, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Sybase. Supporters: Yahoo! Research. Contributors: BEA.