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