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Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,

We are less than two weeks away from SIGCOMM 2014 conference in Chicago. Details of the conference and 6 workshops are available on
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2014/index.php

Here is the news for this month:
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Contents:
1. IMC Student Travel Grant
2. SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
3. Test of time award
4. SIGCOMM 2015 workshops
5. SIGCOMM 2014 Best Paper awards
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1. Are you a student? Want to attend IMC? Advisor won't fund the trip? Apply for a travel grant!
http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/imc/2014/stg.html
August 25, 2014, 11:59 PM PDT (Aug 26, 2014, 6:59 AM GMT), is the HARD deadline. Late applications will not be considered. Decision notification will be sent out by September 1, 2014.

2. The SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award 2014 recipient is Aaron Schulman who did his doctoral work at Maryland. Congratulations, Aaron!

3. The SIGCOMM Test of time award winner papers this year are:

“Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks” by Dina Katabi, Mark Handley, and Charlie Rohrs

and

“Measuring ISP Topologies with Rocketfuel” by Neil Spring, Ratul Mahajan, and David Wetherall

Congratulations to the authors of these landmarks papers!

4. The call for workshops for SIGCOMM 2015 is now available. Please contact the SiGCOMM 2015 workshop chairs (Nick Feamster and Renata
Teixeira) if you have ideas for workshops you would like to see or if you want to organize a workshop next year.
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/cfw.php

5. SIGCOMM 2014 best paper awards go to:
“Balancing Accountability and Privacy in the Network”, David Naylor (Carnegie Mellon University); Matthew K. Mukerjee (Carnegie Mellon University); Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University)

and

“CONGA: Distributed Congestion-Aware Load Balancing for Datacenters”, Mohammad Alizadeh (Cisco); Tom Edsall (Cisco); Sarang Dharmapurikar
(Cisco); Ramanan Vaidyanathan (Cisco); Kevin Chu (Cisco); Andy Fingerhut (Google); Terry Lam (Cisco); Francis Matus (Cisco); Rong Pan (Cisco); Navindra Yadav (Cisco); George Varghese (Microsoft)

That’s all for now!

CFPs for Upcoming SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences: http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/sponsored

CFPs for Upcoming in-cooperation-with SIGCOMM conferences: http://www.sigcomm.org/conferences/cooperation