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  • June 2020 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    July 1, 2020

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    Call for Participation, Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) 2020
    ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Test of Time Paper Award
    Call for Nominations for SIGCOMM 2020 Rising Star Award
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    Call for Participation, Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) 2020
     
    Registration is now open for the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) 2020, which will bring together researchers, operators and representatives of the Internet standards community from around the world and is set to take place online during the week of 27-31 July 2020.
     
    Interspersed with sessions of the IETF 108 Online meeting scheduled for the same week, this year’s ANRW event will consist of four separate sessions with more than a dozen total presentations covering applied research across a wide range of topics, including: DNS and BGP, protocol testing and validation, monitoring and logging, and transport protocols and traffic engineering. A full program is available on the ANRW 2020 website.
     
    Participation in the ANRW is open to anyone, with registration required. Registration is free for those attending IETF 108 Online; to attend ANRW only as a separate event, a $25 registration fee is charged.
     
    For more information, or to register directly, please go to:
    https://irtf.org/anrw/2020/attend.html
     

    ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Test of Time Paper Award
     
    The Test of Time award for 2020 is awarded to:
     
    "A network in a laptop: rapid prototyping for software-defined networks" by Bob Lantz, Brandon Heller, and Nick McKeown, in ACM HotNets 2010
     
    Using illustrative cases studies, the paper demonstrates how a Mininet-based design can be wrapped in a VM to create a “network appliance” that can be distributed over the Internet so that anyone with a laptop can download and run a ``living, breathing” example of a new networked system. The paper has had a profound impact on catalyzing collaborative network research by setting new standards for reproducible networking research in the form of “runnable papers.” 
     
    The 2020 award paper was selected by a committee composed of: Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Hamed Haddadi (Imperial College London, chair), Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research Cambridge), Sue Moon (KAIST), Walter Willinger (NIKSUN).
     

    Call for Nominations for SIGCOMM 2020 Rising Star Award
     
    Each year, ACM SIGCOMM will present a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a young researcher - an individual within 10 years of receiving their highest university degree - who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of their 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.
     
    Nominations for SIGCOMM Rising Star Award: July 30, 2020
     
     

  • May 2020 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    May 31, 2020

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    Call for Papers (HotNets 2020)
    CCR June 2020 deadline extended
    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION and WHITE PAPERS, Online Networking Education Community Discussion
    CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS, and STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION, ACM…
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    Call for Papers (HotNets 2020)
    Submission deadline:  **June** 15, 2020 (11:59pm EDT) (**NOTE**: this is earlier than in the past years.)
     
    Please refer to http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/index.html for details. 
     

    CCR June 2020 deadline extended
    To prevent interference with the paper submission deadline extension of IMC 2020, the CCR June 2020 deadline for papers to be considered in the October 2020 issue has been extended to Friday 5 Jun 2020 6:59:59am EDT:
    https://sigcomm-ccr.hotcrp.com/
     

    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION and WHITE PAPERS, Online Networking Education Community Discussion
     
    There will be an online discussion of "teaching networking during the pandemic, and beyond". Amazing educators from our field will be speaking in panels and leading interactive sessions to give advice and brainstorm ideas on how to engage students online and more. Please consider submitting a whitepaper to help us create a diverse and exciting discussion at the workshop. http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/sigcomm_education_workshop_2020/
     

    CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS, and STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION, ACM SIGCOMM 2020
     
    This year's SIGCOMM poster/demo session presents an exciting opportunity for students to present their work "virtually". Like the main conference, this year's Poster/Demo session will also take place online. Accepted posters and demos will be published as a two-page abstract for the archived conference proceedings. The SIGCOMM poster and demo sessions will also serve as an ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition. 
    https://tinyurl.com/y8plslcd 

  • April 2020 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    April 30, 2020

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    Call for Submission (HotNets’20)
    Deadline for the October issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR is June 1st
    Deadline extended: ACM SIGCOMM EPIQ’20
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    Call for Submission (HotNets’20)
    The 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2020, November 5-6 @ Chicago) will bring together researchers in computer networks and systems to engage in a lively debate on the theory and practice of computer networking. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit short position papers. We encourage papers that identify fundamental open questions, advocate a new approach, offer a constructive critique of the state of networking research, re-frame or debunk existing work, report unexpected early results from a deployment, report on promising but unproven ideas, or propose new evaluation methods. 
     
    Upcoming submission deadline:  June 15, 2020 (11:59pm EDT)
     
    Please refer to http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/index.html for details. 
     

    Deadline for the October issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR is June 1st
     
    The ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) newsletter is published every quarter. The deadline for the submission of technical papers, education papers and editorials for the October issue of CCR is June 1st, 2020. 
     
    You can find submission details at https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/instructions-for-submission/
     

    Deadline extended: ACM SIGCOMM EPIQ’20
    The submission deadline for the Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ) was extended: 
     
    New Submission deadline: May 8, 2020
    Notification deadline: May 25, 2020
    Camera-ready deadline: June 10, 2020
    Workshop: August 14, 2020
     
    https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2020/workshop-epiq.html

  • March 2020 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    March 31, 2020

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    ACM opens up the Digital Library for 3 months
    SIGCOMM Response to COVID-19
    January 2020 issue of SIGCOMM CCR
    ACM SIGCOMM Slack Workspace
    Call for Submissions:  ACM SIGCOMM EPIQ’20
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    Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic
    As a means to help researchers now working remotely and to support the computing community, ACM is providing open access to the ACM Digital Library for the next three months.  There will be no fees assessed for accessing or downloading work published by ACM.

    SIGCOMM Response to COVID-19
    The COVID-19 has affected many in our community and we have all had to adapt to the new constraints it has imposed.  This has also affected several of our conferences.   
     
    The SOSR 2020 conference that was to be held early March was the first to have to cancel its physical conference.  Because the cancellation happened close to the conference date many travel grant recipients had already made arrangements to attend, and the SIG worked with ACM to ensure that travel grant recipients would be reimbursed for expenses they had incurred.  
     
    All other SIG-sponsored conferences that are to be held later this year are currently putting together contingency plans in case they need to follow suit.  In particular, most are exploring options for holding a “virtual conference.” Towards assisting with this goal, ACM has recently chartered a presidential task force aimed at offering the community some guidance on best practices for virtual conferences.  We are actively participating in this effort, and the task force is preparing to release a draft report titled “Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices” that will be distributed to conference organizers to assist them in evaluating options to move their conference to a virtual model.

    The January 2020 issue of SIGCOMM CCR is available
    See https://dl.acm.org/toc/sigcomm-ccr/2020/50/1 or https://ccronline.sigcomm.org  
     

    ACM SIGCOMM Slack Workspace
    ACM SIGCOMM has created a Slack workspace for people interested in computer networking. This workspace is intended to be a fun, welcoming environment for encouraging discussions between students and researchers in our community. With the upcoming array of "virtual conferences" this platform may help replace the informal conversations that happen during the breaks which would otherwise be missed. With the COVID-19 outbreak many folks are locked in their homes at this time with reduced social interactions, and having a platform for conversations may be helpful for that reason as well.
     
    Here is an invite link:
    https://join.slack.com/t/sigcomm/shared_invite/zt-ctzq10pc-8gjEbYjzDwK4PzIL4kqZaA
     
    There are discussions on how to succeed in research, women in Sigcomm, technical questions, and more. Everyone is welcome to join and contribute to any channel. We look forward to talking with you on there!
     

    Call for submissions: ACM SIGCOMM EPIQ’20
    Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ)
    https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2020/workshop-epiq.html
     
    The transport protocol QUIC has emerged from a proprietary effort undertaken by Google to a next generation transport protocol being standardized in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). While its original motivation and design was to support next-generation Web traffic using HTTP/2, embedding QUIC into the Internet architecture raises exciting challenges beyond the necessary engineering efforts. QUIC has already seen deployment and motivated research papers measuring, extending, and evaluating QUIC from various perspectives.
     
    The Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ) seeks to continue to foster this emerging community. We invite researchers from academia and industry as well as engineers to explore novel ideas and future directions of QUIC and its interaction with applications and networks.
     
    See https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2020/workshop-epiq.html and submit papers and poster&demo proposals at https://epiq20.hotcrp.com/.
     
    Submission deadline: April 24, 2020
    Notification deadline: May 25, 2020
    Camera-ready deadline: June 10, 2020
    Workshop: August 14, 2020

  • February 2020 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    February 29, 2020

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    Three SIGCOMM award deadlines on March 31st
    Cancellation of the 2020 ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
    Call for Abstracts: Latin American Student Workshop on Data Communication Networks (LANCOMM 2020) 
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    Three SIGCOMM award deadlines on March 31st
    Please note that March 31st marks the deadline for nominations for 3 of our SIGCOMM awards: 
    i) SIGCOMM award for lifetime contribution, 
    ii) SIGCOMM networking systems award, and 
    iii) SIGCOMM Test of Time award (optional). 
    Please follow the nomination guidelines at http://www.sigcomm.org/awards.
     

    Cancellation of the 2020 ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
    The ACM SOSR conference that was due to take place on March 3rd in San Jose, California has been cancelled due to the increasing risk of spread and impact of the COVID-19 virus. SOSR was co-located with the Open Compute Project (OCP) global summit, which cancelled all its events for the same reason.  
     
    Plans are underway to replace the physical event with a virtual event at a later time.  Please be on the lookout for the announcement of the virtual SOSR event as plans are finalized.
     

    Call for Abstracts: Latin American Student Workshop on Data Communication Networks (LANCOMM 2020)
    The Latin American Student Workshop on Data Communication Networks (LANCOMM 2020) solicits stimulating and original ideas in all aspects of networking research, reflecting the ongoing research efforts of postgraduate students and junior faculty members in the form of 2-page extended abstracts.
     
    We encourage submissions about research at an early stage as well as more advanced dissertation-level research. Accepted presentations will not be published as proceedings, so postgraduate students can submit already accepted/published dissertation-level results and conversely results presented at the workshop can subsequently be submitted, in more complete form, for publication in a full-fledged conference or journal. Research addressing non-standard topics, controversial problems and approaches are of particular interest. The scope of the workshop is broad and covers all aspects of networking research. 
     
    To prepare the extended abstract, please follow the ACM SIGCOMM formatting guidelines (LaTeX template for ACM conference proceedings), except for the following two differences:

    1. papers are limited to TWO (2) pages only, plus references. Note that the two-page limit includes ALL figures, tables but does not include references (add as many as needed);
    2. Please provide only author names and affiliations; it is not necessary to add PAPER ID and number of pages. Submissions must not be anonymous.

    Travel grants will be available to students and postdocs attending LANCOMM 2020. This support, provided by SIGCOMM, will assist a substantial number of attendees by covering their transport and accommodation costs. The application must be made together with the submission of the extended abstract. To increase outreach, applications from institutions within Latin America, but outside Brazil, will be given priority. ACM SIGCOMM members (student or young professional members) will be also given priority. We encourage participation of women and under-represented minorities.
     
    Important Dates
    Abstract/Application Submission Deadline: March 16, 2020
    Acceptance Notification: April 6, 2020
    Final Abstract and Poster: April 17, 2020
    Workshop: May 25, 2020 (Monday)
     
    More information at the LANCOMM 2020 website
     

  • January 2020 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    January 31, 2020

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    Announcing new SIG Education Director
    Announcing SIGCOMM podcasts
    Submissions to ACM SIGCOMM are due soon!
    Submissions to the July issue of SIGCOMM CCR
    Call for Proposals for the 5th Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW '20)
    Three SIGCOMM award deadlines on March 31st
    ACM SOSR’20: Call for Participation / Registration
    Call for Volunteers: CRA-WP and CRA-URMD workshops
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    New SIG Education Director
    We welcome Matthew Caesar as the new SIGCOMM Education Director.  Matt is replacing Tristan Henderson, whom we would like to thank for his several years of service to the SIG in that capacity.
     

    New SIGCOMM podcasts
     
    While working on the celebration of SIGCOMM’s 50th anniversary, we discussed about the possibility of recording podcasts with SIGCOMM award winners. In parallel, Russ White had been recording podcasts about the history of networking and he offered to record podcasts with SIGCOMM award winners. The first of these podcasts is a discussion with Jennifer Rexford on the history of the history of programmable control planes. Other podcasts will be released in the coming months.
     

    Submissions to ACM SIGCOMM are due soon!
     
    The ACM SIGCOMM conference is the premier venue to publish novel and
    significant research results in the field of computer
    networking. Please submit your best work!
     
    Paper submissions are due on Friday Feb 7, 2020 at 11.59 PM Eastern Time.
    Submission website: https://sigcomm2020.hotcrp.com/
    Conference website: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2020/
    Call for Papers: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2020/cfp.html
    Detailed submission instructions: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2020/submission.html
     

    Deadline for the July issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR is March 1st
     
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) newsletter is published every quarter. The deadline for the submission of technical papers and editorials for the July issue of CCR is conference is March 1st, 2020. 
     
    You can find submission details at https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/instructions-for-submission/

    Call for Proposals for the 5th Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW '20)
     
    The 5th Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW '20) is a one day event bringing together researchers, operators and representatives of the Internet standards community. Co-located with IETF 108 in Madrid, ANRW '20 will take place on Monday July 27th, at the IETF venue.
     
    We are looking for submissions in the form of short papers discussing original research that is relevant to the IETF and IRTF community and can lead to changes to, or new insights on Internet standards and protocols. We also solicit descriptions of early work or updates on ongoing work in the form of lightning papers that are presented as posters at the workshop. Participating in ANRW '20 provides an excellent opportunity to interact with the IETF and IRTF community.
     
    For more information, see the full call for proposals here: https://irtf.org/anrw/2020/cfp.html
    Mirja Kühlewind and Roland van Rijswijk-Deij (co-chairs of ANRW '20)
     

    Three SIGCOMM award deadlines on March 31st
     
    Please note that March 31st marks the deadline for nominations for 3 of our SIGCOMM awards: i) SIGCOMM award for lifetime contribution, ii) SIGCOMM networking systems award, and iii) SIGCOMM Test of Time award (optional). Please follow the nomination guidelines at http://www.sigcomm.org/awards.

    ACM SOSR’20: Call for Participation / Registration
     
    The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to the ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), to be held on March 3, 2020 in San Jose, CA. SOSR is the premiere venue for research publications on SDN, building on past years' successful SOSR and HotSDN (Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking) workshops. New to this year, SOSR will be co-­located with the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit to foster interaction between academic and industrial attendees.
     
    We are also pleased to announce that we will again be giving out the SOSR Software Systems Award at this year's SOSR, which recognizes software that has significantly impacted SDN.
     
    Registration details: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2020/register.html
     

    Call for Volunteers: CRA-WP and CRA-URMD workshops 
     
    SIGCOMM supports increasing diversity in the community and has been a sponsor of CRA-WP workshops. We are looking for volunteers to attend two upcoming CRA-WP grad cohort workshops. The CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women aims to increase the ranks of senior women in computing-related studies and research by building and mentoring nationwide communities of women through their graduate studies. The CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshop for URMD, created more recently, has similar goals, but for underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities. Both workshops include a mix of formal presentations, informal discussions and social events. Senior computing researchers and other professionals share pertinent information on graduate school survival skills, as well as insights about their experiences. The Grad Cohort for URMD takes place on March 5-7 in Austin, while the Grad Cohort for Women happens on April 16-18 in New Orleans. 
     
    SIGCOMM is looking for members from the community to volunteer to participate in either of these two workshops. We offer registration and will cover domestic air travel and accommodation expenses, and expect the volunteer to participate in activities and engage in discussions with attendees interested in computer networks and communications (e.g., by  manning the thematic lunch table and mingling with attendees in informal discussions and during social events). Volunteers will help attendees understand the pros and cons of pursuing a research career in the field and the opportunities available in the SIGCOMM community. If you are willing to help, please contact Marinho Barcellos at marinho@acm.org as soon as possible.

  • December 2019 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    January 2, 2020

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    Call for Nominations: ACM SIGCOMM SOSR Software Systems Award
    Call for Demos and Posters: ACM SIGCOMM SOSR
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    Call for Nominations, ACM SIGCOMM SOSR Software Systems Award
    The ACM SIGCOMM SOSR Software Systems Award is given to an individual or an institution to recognize the development of a software system that has had a significant impact on software-defined networking (SDN) research, implementations, and tools. The impact may be reflected in the widespread adoption of the system, or of its underlying concepts, by the wider SDN community, either in research projects, in the open-source community, or commercially. The award includes a prize of $1,000. The award is presented at the Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) each year and the winner is invited to give a talk at the conference.
     
    Nominations should be submitted by email to sosr-award@sigcomm.org on or before January 22nd, 2020 to be considered for this year’s award.
     
    More details: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2020/award.html
     

    Call for Demos and Posters - ACM SOSR 2020
    The ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR '20) demos and posters session showcases research projects current that are in an early stage and could benefit from community feedback. We particularly invite the submission of emerging results in SDN research that address timely problems. In the past, we had great discussions over the demos and posters session, and we hope to replicate the same success this year. Please submit your coolest ongoing work!
     
    More details: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sosr/2020/calls.html

  • November 2019 SIGCOMM Newsletter
    December 4, 2019

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    ACM History Fellowship Call for Proposals
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    ACM History Fellowship Call for Proposals
    The ACM History Committee runs a competition for research projects on or centrally related to ACM history, which has resulted in 30 fellowships awarded since the start of this fellowship program in 2009.   Many of these awards have gone to scholars (graduate students to senior scholars). The ACM History Committee’s 2020 fellowship call for proposal is now open and anyone with interests in contributing to documenting ACM’s history is encouraged to apply.  
    The submission deadline for applications is February 15, 2020.
    The application link is:  http://history.acm.org/public/public_documents/acm_history_fellowship_announce.php

  • Call for Nominations - CCR Editor
    October 29, 2019

    CCR is SIGCOMM's newsletter.  It is published quarterly and publishes 
    both peer-reviewed technical papers and non-peer reviewed editorial 
    content.  It also serves as a forum for the publication of reports from 
    SIG's sponsored workshops and conferences, and as of 2012 the best of 
    CCR papers appear for presentation at ACM SIGCOMM. Publication of the 
    newsletter is overseen by the CCR Editor with the help of an Editorial 
    Board consisting of Area Editors.  The CCR editor manages the paper 
    submission, review, and publication process together with the Editorial 
    Board.  Reviews are currently managed through hotcrp.com and papers are 
    published on both the ACM DL and CCR Online, although the latter may end 
    now that access to CCR papers in the ACM DL is open-access.
     
    In addition to the above responsibilities, the CCR editor also solicits 
    editorial submissions and over the years has launched a number of 
    initiatives aimed at broadening the impact and scope of CCR.  One such 
    example was the creation of an artifacts evaluation committee tasked 
    with handling artifact submissions either directly or for papers 
    published in some of the SIG's sponsored conferences. Another more 
    recent is the exploration of podcasts, to be hosted on the DL, to 
    commemorate the SIG's 50th birthday.
     
    The term of the current CCR Editor, Olivier Bonaventure, is coming to an 
    end and the SIGCOMM EC is issuing an open call for nominations to 
    identify his replacement. In addition to continuing the tradition of 
    quality and innovation that has been CCR's trademark, as we move some of 
    the publication aspects into the ACM DL and explore other means of 
    offloading logistical support, the new CCR Editor will have the 
    opportunity to launch new initiatives aimed at best serving the needs of 
    our community.
     
    Interested candidates should submit by email to the SIG Chair 
    (guerin@acm.org) a short two-page statement highlighting the experience 
    they bring to the position and articulating their vision for the 
    newsletter, a link to a recent CV, and a list of three names that the 
    SIGCOMM EC could contact for references.

  • Call for nominations - SIGCOMM Education Director
    October 29, 2019

    SIGCOMM is ACM's professional forum for discussing communications and 
    computer networks. The SIG sponsors a range of conferences and awards 
    travel grants to attend them, oversees the publication of its 
    newsletter, CCR, and organizes various events for its members, including 
    summer schools and students workshops. In particular, the SIG has a 
    strong tradition of activities aimed at encouraging the participation of 
    students and junior researchers.
     
    The SIGCOMM Education Director is responsible for coordinating 
    activities aimed at creating educational material and opportunities on 
    various networking topics for students and our members, as well as for 
    soliciting and initiating new activities in those areas. Examples of 
    past such activities include contributions to ACM/IEEE CS Curriculum, 
    organizing shadow TPCs, supporting summer schools, organizing education 
    workshops, initiating the CoNEXT student workshop, editing the SIGCOMM 
    ebook on recent advances in networking, etc.
     
    The new SIGCOMM Education Director is expected to not only continue 
    coordinating existing educational activities, but also contribute to 
    encouraging and creating new proposals that address the expectations of 
    today's students and teachers. Possible ideas include exploring MOOCs, 
    webinars, improving the quality of wikipedia networking pages, 
    organizing hackathons or education workshops on emerging topics.  The 
    SIG is committed to helping support greater educational initiatives and 
    resources will be made available to help the new Education Director 
    realize them.
     
    Interested candidates should submit by email to the SIG Chair 
    (guerin@acm.org) a short (one or two pages) statement describing their 
    vision and objectives for this position, a link to a recent CV, and a 
    list of three names that the SIGCOMM EC could contact for references.

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