News http://www.sigcomm.org daily 1 2007-10-10T18:41:10Z Sigcomm 2011 Venue and Dates Announced http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/bdavie/sigcomm-2011-venue-announced The Sigcomm Executive Committee has selected Toronto as the host city for the Sigcomm 2011 ConferenceAfter review of the submitted proposals, the Executive Committee has selected Toronto as the venue for the annual Sigcomm conference in 2011. Jorg Liebeherr (University of Toronto) will be General Chair. Exact dates and other details will be announced shortly.

]]> No publisher bdavie 2010-03-19T21:25:18Z News Item SIGCOMM Education Director Appointed http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/bdavie/sigcomm-education-director-appointed Olivier Bonaventure is the new SIGCOMM Education Directorhere.]]> No publisher bdavie 2010-03-17T22:29:48Z News Item SIGCOMM Award Nominations are due March 31st, 2010 http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/ramesh/sigcomm-award-nominations-are-due-march-31st-2010 The SIGCOMM award is bestowed annually for outstanding lifetime technical achievement in the fields of data and computer communications. Nominations for this year's award are due on or before March 31st, 2010. The nomination procedure is discussed in detail here: http://www.sigcomm.org/about/awards/sigcomm-award-nominations/ If you have any questions about the nominations process, please contact the Awards Chair, Ramesh Govindan (ramesh@usc.edu). No publisher ramesh 2010-02-19T19:47:20Z News Item ACM announces 2009 Fellows http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/nspring/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.The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership as the world of information technology evolves.

New ACM fellows include four SIGCOMM members:
  • Bruce Davie (Cisco) "For contributions to computer networking",
  • Jeffrey A. Dean (Google) "For contributions to the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems",
  • Farnam Jahanian (Univ. Michigan) "For contributions to the dependability and security of networks and systems.", and
  • John Chi-Shing Lui (CUHK) "For contributions to stochastic analysis of parallel storage and communication systems."
]]> No publisher nspring 2009-12-05T17:25:42Z News Item Ratul Mahajan is the ACM Sigcomm Rising Star Awardee for 2009 http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/ramesh/ratul-mahajan-is-the-acm-sigcomm-rising-star-awardee-for-2009 Each year, ACM SIGCOMM presents a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a
young researcher - an individual no older than 35 - who has made
outstanding research contributions to the field of communication
networks during this early part of his or her career.

This year's awardee is Ratul Mahajan from Microsoft Research, in
recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his
career, in network management and wireless communication, where his
measurement driven approach has culminated in innovative and
practically adopted systems.

]]> No publisher ramesh 2009-12-05T16:57:03Z News Item SIGMOBILE Seeks EIC for MC2R http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/nspring/sigmobile-seeks-eic-for-mc2r-1 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.The EIC selection process will be run by the MC2R Selection Committee, which will make a recommendation(s) to the SIGMOBILE EC for final approval.

Candidates should submit the following by email to roy.want@intel.com:

a curriculum vitae or resume; and

a position statement of not more than 2 pages, formatted in 10-point font.

Applicants that are well suited to the position will be already known to the mobile research community, with an established track record of publication. Ideally, candidates should also have some experience in an editorial role, at least as the associate editor or department editor of a publication.

The position statement will be an important part of the selection process. We are looking for candidates who have a vision for MC2R, something that will maintain and increase MC2R's relevance to the SIGMOBILE membership and will make it stand out among the wide range of computer science periodicals as something unique.

This is an opportunity for a rising star in our community to establish MC2R as an invaluable resource for researchers in the field. Applications from motivated candidates are highly encouraged.

Applications are due by December 4, 2009.

Roy Want ACM SIGMOBILE Chair on behalf of the SIGMOBILE Executive Committee

]]> No publisher nspring 2009-11-03T15:48:29Z News Item Call for ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Nominations http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/ramesh/call-for-acm-sigcomm-rising-star-award-nominations Nominations for the ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star award are due soon! Please see the following link for eligibility criteria, nomination guidelines, and the deadline.

http://www.sigcomm.org/about/awards/sigcomm-rising-star-award/

]]> No publisher ramesh 2009-10-05T20:51:45Z News Item CCR October 2009 Table of Contents http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/nspring/ccr-october-2009-table-of-contents-1 I) Reviewed Articles

  1. MPCP: Multi Packet Congestion-control Protocol Xiaolong Li and Homayoun Yousefi’zadeh
  2. GT: picking up the truth from the ground in traffic classification F. Gringoli, L. Salgarelli, N. Cascarano, F. Risso and K. C. Claffy

II) Editorial Zone

  1. Sigcomm: A View from the Chair Bruce Davie
  2. A Brief History of the Internet Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, and Stephen Wolff
  3. The Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS) Report kc claffy, Marina Fomenkov, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Robert Beverly, Beverly A. Cox, Matthew Luckie
  4. New Frontiers in Internet Network Management Ehab Al-Shaer, Albert Greenberg, Charles Kalmanek, David A. Maltz, T. S. Eugene Ng, and Geoffrey G. Xie
  5. Computing for Global Development: Is it Computer Science Research? Muneeb Ali and kentaro Toyama
  6. Invigorating the Future Internet Debate Dirk Trossen
  7. Yet Another Access Point Richard Gass and Christophe Diot
]]> No publisher nspring 2009-10-03T16:38:00Z News Item CoNEXT Student Travel Grants http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/nspring/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 No publisher nspring 2009-10-03T16:36:42Z News Item SIGCOMM Test-of-time Award for 2009 http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/ramesh/sigcomm-test-of-time-award-for-2009 The Sigcomm Test-of-time award recognizes papers published 10 to 12
years in the past in Computer Communication Review or any SIGCOMM
sponsored or co-sponsored conference that is deemed to be an
outstanding paper whose contents are still a vibrant and useful
contribution today.  This year's test-of-time awardee is the paper
titled: "A digital fountain approach to reliable distribution of bulk
data", by John W. Byers, Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher, Ashutosh
Rege, which appeared in SIGCOMM 1998.

]]> No publisher ramesh 2009-09-04T22:28:52Z News Item Slides from Community Feedback Session http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/bdavie/slides-from-community-feedback-session Slides from the Community Feedback Session in Barcelona have been postedThe Community Feedback Session (formerly known as the SIGCOMM business meeting) was held at the annual conference in Barcelona on August 18, 2009. The slides from the session are now available on line here, and a short summary of the meeting will be posted soon.

]]> No publisher bdavie 2009-09-04T22:36:41Z News Item Incoming SIGCOMM Officers http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/nspring/incoming-sigcomm-officers Bruce Davie will be the new chair; Henning Schulzrinne remains Vice-Chair and Tilman Wolf remains Secretary-Treasurer.
  • Chair - Bruce Davie
  • Vice-Chair - Henning Schulzrinne
  • Secretary/Treasurer - Tilman Wolf ]]> No publisher nspring 2009-06-29T19:25:03Z News Item The Process of ACM SIGCOMM 2009 http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/nspring/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.The Sigcomm 2009 TPC Chairs have made available a document describing the program selection process, and suitably anonymized data from the submission management system.

    See: The Process of ACM Sigcomm 2009.

    ]]>     No publisher nspring 2009-06-12T15:10:26Z News Item     Student scribes sought for WREN workshop http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/nspring/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. No publisher nspring 2009-06-12T14:13:37Z News Item Jon Crowcroft is the 2009 SIGCOMM Award winner http://www.sigcomm.org/Members/nspring/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.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.

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