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Ion Stoica wins 2007 CoNEXT Rising Star Award

The award to Ion Stoica is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, on advances in Internet architecture, overlay networks and practical distributed systems.

SIGCOMM Conference

Current sigcomm conference logo, possibly a short history as well.

Keshav to be CCR EIC

Keshav has accepted the position of Editor in Chief of Computer Communication Review.

Don Towsley Wins 2008 ACM SIGCOMM Award

The award to Don Towsley is for his contributions to the modeling, analysis, and control of communication networks.

SIGCOMM Elections call for candidates

The SIGCOMMM Nominating Committee seeks suggestions of candidates for the elected positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary/Treasurer. The task of the Nominating Committee is to produce a slate of at least two candidates per position. Suggestions should be sent to Ellen Zegura, Chair of the Nominating Committee, by January 1, 2009 at ewz@cc.gatech.edu.

SIGCOMM Election

SIGCOMM has a slate of candidates. More candidates can be added by petition before March 16.

New SIGCOMM Awards Chair: Ramesh Govindan

Ramesh Govindan is SIGCOMM's new awards chair, replacing John Byers. SIGCOMM Award nominations are due March 31.

SIGCOMM 2010 Website is up

conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2010/

Konstantina (Dina) Papagiannaki wins 2008 SIGCOMM Rising Star Award

The award to Konstantina Papagiannaki is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in her career, on the role of measurements for the development of efficient algorithms in the design, planning, and management of wired and wireless IP networks.

What does the EC do?

There's a new discussion item on the blog describing the role of the Executive Committee of SIGCOMM.

Sigcomm 09 Travel Grants

The Sigcomm Travel Grants Program is now accepting applications from graduate students, postdocs, and faculty and researchers in their early career, who need support to attend Sigcomm'09.

Jon Crowcroft is the 2009 SIGCOMM Award winner

Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communication Systems at Cambridge University, has been awarded the 2009 SIGCOMM Award for his pioneering contributions to multimedia and group communications, for his endless enthusiasm and energy, for all of the creative ideas he has so freely shared with so many in the networking community, and for always being outside the box.

Student scribes sought for WREN workshop

The Workshop: Research on Enterprise Networking (WREN), co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2009 in Barcelona, Spain, seeks several students to volunteer as "scribes". Scribes would take notes about the discussions at the workshop, and then help in producing an edited report. For details, please contact Jeff Mogul (wren2009chair@hpl.hp.com) as soon as possible.

The Process of ACM SIGCOMM 2009

The Sigcomm 2009 TPC Chairs have made available a document describing the program selection process, and suitably anonymized data from the submission management system.

Incoming SIGCOMM Officers

Bruce Davie will be the new chair; Henning Schulzrinne remains Vice-Chair and Tilman Wolf remains Secretary-Treasurer.

sigcomm-logo-new.eps

The sigcomm logo in eps form.

CoNEXT Student Travel Grants

With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and AT&T, ACM CoNEXT 2009 will provide a limited number of grants to students to attend the main conference as well as to participate in the ACM CoNEXT 2009 Student Workshop. Deadline: October 12 http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/grants.php

CCR October 2009 Table of Contents

 

CCR October 2009 Table of Contents

 

SIGMOBILE Seeks EIC for MC2R

Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) is a quarterly publication of ACM SIGMOBILE. The SIGMOBILE Executive Committee (EC) solicits candidates for the position of Editor-in-Chief for MC2R. The current MC2R EIC, Srikanth Krishnamurthy, will complete his 2-year term at the end of 2009, and we are expecting a new candidate to take on this role for a 2-year period in 2010 through 2011.

Conference Timeline

Interactive conference timeline using the SIMILE timeline widget to present conference dates and submission deadlines.

Timeline

 

ACM announces Distinguished Members

ACM announced 2009 distinguished members; five are SIGCOMM members: Mark Crovella, Richard P. Draves, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramon C. Puigjaner, Prashant Shenoy.

ACM announces 2009 Fellows

New ACM fellows include four SIGCOMM members: current SIGCOMM chair Bruce Davie, Jeffrey Dean, Farnam Jahanian, and John Chi-Shing Lui.

clock sigcomm deadline

image for the timeline.

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