Agenda
Intro SIGCOMM 2011 Highlights Travel Grant Expansion Doctoral Dissertation Award Computer Communications Review Education Chair Sigcomm Conference Open Discussion
SIG Officers
Bruce Davie Chair
Henning Schulzrinne Vice-Chair
Tilman Wolf Secretary/Treasurer
S. Keshav EIC, CCR
Mark Crovella Past Chair
See http://www.sigcomm.org/about/what-does-the-ec-do/
Neil Spring Information Director
Jau de Oliveira Conference Coordinator
Joe Touch Conference Coordinator
Emeritus
Bruce Maggs Awards Chair
Olivier Bonaventure Education Chair
SIG Finances
ACM Guidelines Maintain a minimum fund balance, as a fraction of expected
expenses for the year ($340k approx.) The SIG’s budget is healthy
More than double fund-balance requirements This year’s events on balance made a moderate profit We use those profits for SIG activities such as awards,
geodiversity grants, regional conference support, travel grants, publications, etc.
We’ve actively increased the amount we’re putting back into the community this year
SIGCOMM Sponsored Conferences
CoNEXT SIGCOMM sponsored; European roots, broad scope; student workshop December 6-9, 2011, Tokyo, Japan
Internet Measurement Conference SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS in cooperation with USENIX November 2-4, 2011, Berlin, Germany
HotNets Workshop Emphasis on emerging research directions November 14-15, 2011, Cambridge, MA, USA
Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS) Joint with SIGARCH, IEEE October 3-4, 2011, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) Joint with SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS, SIGBED and NSF November 1-4, 2011, Seattle, WA, USA
Connecting with the Global Community
Geodiversity grants Support attendance at SIGCOMM from under-represented regions Increased pool to $30k per year Expanded eligibility to include grad students (as well as junior faculty)
For several years we’ve supported AINTEC (Asian Internet Engineering Conf.) and LANC (Latin American Networking Conf.) Invited speaker support LANC Best paper winners received geodiversity grants
Following SIGCOMM 2010 in India, extended support to COMSNETS January 3-7, 2012, Bangalore, India Best local paper authors receive geodiversity grants Travel grants for students travelling from outside region
We provide unrestricted student travel support to SIGCOMM, CoNEXT and ANCS conferences
Conferences “In Co-operation”
Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI) USENIX, in cooperation with SIGCOMM & SIGOPS March 30-April 1, 2011, Boston, MA, USA
E-Energy: Energy efficient computing and networking May 31-June 1, 2011, New York, NY, USA
NOSSDAV SIGMM, in cooperation with SIGCOMM & SIGOPS June 1-3, Vancouver, Canada
IPTComm: Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications August 1-2, 2011, Chicago, IL, USA
ExtremeCom Workshop September 28-30, 2011, Manaus, Brazil
NetGames Workshop in cooperation with SIGCOMM, SIGMM and IEEE ComSoc October 6-7, 2011, Ottawa, Canada
MMSYS: Multimedia Systems Conference Sponsored by SIGMM February 22-24, 2012, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Awards
SIGCOMM Test of Time SIGCOMM Best Paper
Best Student Paper was also best paper this year SIGCOMM Rising Star
Continuation of CoNEXT’s 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.”
Nick Feamster in 2010
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Introduced this year; $1500 award Follows similar process as ACM’s overall dissertation
award Committee appointed by SIGCOMM awards chair Deadline October 31 http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/dissertation
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Industry-Academic Collaboration
Aim: improve information flow in both directions Industry has lots of interesting problems that would
benefit from academic research Academics have lots of ideas/projects likely to be of
value to industry
Progress: Panel session at CoNEXT’10 was well received All-star industry panel here, Thursday lunchtime
Communication
Desire for “transparency” of EC clearly expressed Attempting to address that through all communication means
at our disposal CCR, print and online, just revamped www.sigcomm.org
Minutes of all monthly EC meetings now posted Annual report for 2011 available www.sigcomm.org/news/RSS
Email discussion: [email protected] SIGCOMM members mailing list:
[email protected] Facebook (SIGCOMM, not to be confused with SIGCOMM 2010) blog.sigcomm.org – rather quiet this year
CCR Online Changes
CCR online moving under www.sigcomm.org Thanks to Neil Spring, Moritz Steiner Considering “online only” Sigcomm memberships for
2012 Pay less money, kill fewer trees Print will continue to be available
Feedback Solicited! [email protected]
Education Chair
Olivier Bonaventure has now been in the role for almost 18 months
http://education.sigcomm.org Resources for educators; textbook information; slidesets,
etc. Contribute material!
Workshop yesterday Running CoNext shadow TPC Involved in ACM/IEEE CS Curriculum effort
Conference Selectivity
Concern that very high selectivity (acceptance < 15%) isn’t healthy
TSC chartered (in part) to foster fair and transparent paper selection
Fostering additional high-quality venues E.g. CoNEXT, etc.
Support ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking Some recognition that CS should use journals more SIG will pay extra page charges for fast-tracked papers
from our conferences and for papers extended in response to reviews
SIGCOMM TSC
Aim: make the PC composition and review process the best we can A Technical Steering Committee composed of individuals with strong
PC expertise provides store of institutional knowledge TSC has clear set of responsibilities around the Technical aspects of
the SIGCOMM Conference Select PC Chairs Maintain records on what has/hasn’t worked Maintain dialog with the SIGCOMM Community Advise PC Chairs on PC composition Advise PC Chairs on review process issues Set policies/guidelines as needed related to technical program (e.g.
double submission, etc.) No overlap with EC responsibilities (budget, logistics)
PC Chairs maintain autonomy
TSC Members
3 Ex-PC Chairs: Jeff Mogul K. K. Ramakrishnan Dina Papagiannaki
3 Appointed Members Scott Shenker Ernst Biersack Jen Rexford
1 ex-officio – SIGCOMM Conference Co-ordinator Jau de Oliveira
SIGCOMM Conference Locations
Now on three-year cycle: North America, Europe, and “Wild Card”
Future SIGCOMM Locations 2012: Helsinki, Finland 2013: “Wild Card”
Currently seeking 2-page site proposals: due October 31 See www.sigcomm.org
2014: North America SIGCOMM conference dates
One week between mid August & first Monday in Sept Rotating dates to avoid scheduling collisions
Get involved in SIGCOMM
More than an annual conference! Submit papers to our other sponsored or in-coop
conferences Contribute to CCR and ToN
Don’t forget the editorial section of CCR Comment online on CCR Offer to review submissions
Share resources on education.sigcomm.org, get involved in curriculum development
You can propose workshops at SIGCOMM, CoNEXT, or standalone
Contact any EC member for more ideas