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Incoming SIGCOMM Officers

nspring — 2009-06-29T19:25:03Z

The results of the 2009 SIGCOMM elections are in. The incoming officers will be:

Chair - Bruce Davie
Vice-Chair - Henning Schulzrinne
Secretary/Treasurer - Tilman Wolf

The Process of ACM SIGCOMM 2009

nspring — 2009-06-12T15:10:26Z

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.

Student scribes sought for WREN workshop

nspring — 2009-06-12T14:13:37Z

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.

Jon Crowcroft is the 2009 SIGCOMM Award winner

nspring — 2009-05-29T17:34:45Z

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.

What does the EC do?

nspring — 2009-05-15T20:23:08Z

See What does the EC do? and comment on blog.sigcomm.org.

Sigcomm 09 Travel Grants

nspring — 2009-05-15T20:22:47Z

The deadline is Friday, June 5th (extended).

For more information about the program and for submitting an application online please follow this link: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/grants.php

SIGCOMM 2010 Website is up

nspring — 2009-04-11T18:23:51Z

SIGCOMM 2010 in New Delhi.

New SIGCOMM Awards Chair: Ramesh Govindan

nspring — 2009-03-02T17:12:10Z

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

SIGCOMM Election

nspring — 2009-02-21T03:33:23Z

In accordance with ACM Bylaw 6, SIGCOMM will hold elections in 2009. The slate of candidates for SIGCOMM is now available; please view it at the 2009 ACM SIG Election site, http://www.acm.org/sigs/elections .

For convenience, here are the (current) candidates:
Chair: Bruce Davie, Mark Crovella

Vice Chair: Henning Schulzrinne, David Wetherall

Secretary/Treasurer: Andreas Terzis, Tilman Wolf

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In accordance with the SIG Bylaws, additional candidates may be placed on the ballot by petition. All candidates must be Professional Members of ACM, as well as members of the SIG. Anyone interested in petitioning must inform ACM Headquarters (Pat Ryan, ACM, 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, NY, NY 10121) and the SIG Secretary of their intent to petition by March 16.

Additional information will appear in the February issue of ACM MemberNet and on the 2009 ACM SIG Election site.

SIGCOMM Elections call for candidates

nspring — 2009-01-02T21:10:09Z

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.

Konstantina (Dina) Papagiannaki wins 2008 SIGCOMM Rising Star Award

nspring — 2008-11-06T16:48:21Z

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. Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher's contributions will be key criteria upon which the Rising Star award committee will evaluate the nominees. Also of particular interest are strong research contributions made independently from the nominee's PhD advisor.

The award will be presented at the annual ACM CoNEXT conference, where the award-winner will deliver a keynote address. Conference registration, travel, and lodging for the awardee will be paid by ACM SIGCOMM.

Don Towsley Wins 2008 ACM SIGCOMM Award

nspring — 2008-09-22T15:14:40Z

University of Massachusetts - Amherst Professor Don Towsley was awarded the
highest honor from ACM SIGCOMM, ACM's Special Interest Group on Data
Communications, for his contributions to the modeling, analysis, and control
of communication networks in the computer networking field. His research
and leadership have helped shape an era of networking research and practice
built upon a deeper scientific basis than in the past.

The ACM SIGCOMM Award recognizes lifetime achievement in and contributions to the
field of computer networking. It is awarded annually to a person whose work,
over the course of his or her career, represents a significant contribution
to the field and a substantial influence on the work and perceptions of others
in the field. Dr. Towsley will receive his award and deliver a keynote
address at the ACM SIGCOMM annual conference in Seattle on Tuesday, August 19.

Over a sustained and continuous research career spanning three decades, Towsley,
who is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, has made innovative and pioneering
contributions in developing foundational modeling and analysis techniques that have
enabled a better understanding of some of the most important aspects of today's
computer networks, network protocols and networked applications. His research
contributions, embodied in part by a collection of nearly 200 journal papers
that he has authored, exhibit great diversity across scientific disciplines and
include a staggering list of collaborators. Highlights of his seminal work
include the first empirically-validated analytical model of the TCP protocol,
foundational work on network tomography to infer internal network behavior based
on end-to-end observations with statistical rigor, the use of fluid models and
stochastic differential equations to elucidate network performance in the presence
of competing sessions, methods to smooth and streamline delivery of multimedia
content across the Internet, and key contributions to advance the state of the
art in reliable multicast protocol design. His work has had enormous impact,
as evidenced by the many subsequent research and implementation efforts that
build upon groundwork laid by his findings, as well as by extensive references
to his work.

Don is equally well-known for his dedicated, long-standing service to the
community. In addition to the dozens of students he has mentored, many of whom
have made lasting contributions to the field of their own, and the active
encouragement he has provided in collaborations with so many others,
he has also organized numerous workshops and symposia, served on editorial
boards for top journals and countless technical program committees,
and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking journal.

Dr. Towsley is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and is the
recipient of the 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award,
the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, and the 1999 IEEE Communications
Society William Bennett Award.

Keshav to be CCR EIC

nspring — 2008-06-02T15:44:32Z

Keshav has accepted the position of Editor in Chief of Computer Communication Review. Keshav will take over responsibility for the January 2009 issue. Christophe will step down after the October issue.

Ion Stoica wins 2007 CoNEXT Rising Star Award

nspring — 2008-07-16T18:41:08Z

Each year, CoNEXT presents a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a young researcher - generally, an individual who has completed a PhD roughly within the past seven years - who has made outstanding research contributions during this early part of their career. One criteria of particular interest is very strong research contributions made independently from the PhD advisor.

Awardees are selected by an Award Committee, appointed by the CoNEXT Conference Steering Committee, who will be aware of the global nature of the networking field, as well as the different research cultures that can exist in different countries.

This year, through its open call for nominations, the CoNEXT Award Committee received 17 nominations for highly deserving individuals. After a rigorous and competitive selection process, this year's Rising Star Award has been awarded to Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley, USA).