craig@NNSC.NSF.NET (Craig Partridge) (03/01/90)
The SIGCOMM Award The SIGCOMM Award was initiated in 1989 as a means of honoring computer communications professionals for outstanding technical achievement in the fields of data- and computer- communications. The award consists of a plaque and a $2000 honorarium. The award will be presented at the annual SIGCOMM Conference, at which time, the awardee is invited to deliver a technical address. In the following are guidelines for submitting a nomination. 1. Self-nominations are not accepted. 2. The nominee need NOT be a member of ACM SIGCOMM 3. The nominator MUST be a member of ACM SIGCOMM 4. Nominations must be received by the chairman of the SIGCOMM Award Committee no later than May 30 of each year. 5. Nominations which did not result in an award can be resubmitted/updated in subsequent years. 6. Previous awardees are not eligible for future nomina- tions. (The 1989 awardee was Paul Baran, for the invention of packet switching). 7. Members of the Award Committee are not eligible. 8. Members of the SIGCOMM Executive Committee (chairman, vice chairman, secy-treasurer and editor as well as past chairman) are not eligible. Material to be included in nomination: 1. Curriculum Vitae, including publications, of nominee 2. Concise statement (one sentence) of the work for which the award is being nominated. This statement will appear on the award plaque. 3. Description of the nominee's role in the work justify- ing the nomination. 4. Letters of recommendation from others which identify rationale for the nomination and by what means the recommender knows of the nominee's work. It is recom- mended that at least three letters of recommendation be included in the nominations materials. 5. Justification for declaring the nominee's work to be a major, lifetime contribution to computer communications. The nomination should be made in the form of a letter addressed to the chairman of the SIGCOMM Award Committee. The nominator should solicit recommendations from colleagues in the field who are most familiar with the nominee's achievements. It is not recommended to send copies of published papers or books along with the nomination materials. The nominator is responsible for gathering all nomination materials and sending two copies of all materials to reach the chairman of the awards committee before May 30th. No late nominations will be considered for the current year. They will be held over until the following year for con- sideration. The 1990 chair of the SIGCOMM Award Committee is: Dr. Franklin F. Kuo Tel: 415-859-4116 SRI International e-mail: Kuo@NISC.SRI.COM 333 Ravenswood Avenue fax: 415-859-6171 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Inforomation on SIGCOMM '90 SIGCOMM '90 will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 25-27th, with tutorials on September 24th. Registration informa- tion will appear in the July issue of Computer Communication Review and the August issue of IEEE Communications. For more information, contact the General Chair: Prof. David Farber, Pro- fessor of Computer and Information Science and of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33rd St, Phi- ladelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6389, USA; Telephone: (215) 898- 9508; EMAIL: farber@cis.upenn.edu; FAX: (215) 898-0587