Farber wins ACM SIGCOMM's 1995 Award ------------------------------------ Professor David Farber is the winner of this year's ACM SIGCOMM (Special Interest Group in Data Communications) award for lifelong contribution to data networking. He will be presented this award during the ACM SIGCOMM 1995 conference to be held Aug 28 to Sep 1 1995. David J. Farber has been a Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania since 1987. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S in Mathematics from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1956 and 1962 respectively. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Prof. Farber is a co-founder of the CSNET national research network. He worked in the early 1970's on ring networks and in the early 80's proposed MEMNET, one of the first distributed shared memory networks. He is one of the Principal Investigators on the AURORA gigabit testbed. Prof. Farber's current research interests are in high speed communication networks, distributed computing, operating systems, distributed collaboration, and microprocessor architecture. About the conference -------------------- ACM SIGCOMM (the special interest group on data communications and networking) will hold its annual meeting this year in Cambridge, MA from August 28 to September 1, 1995. Some of the highlights of the 3 day SIGCOMM program: * A keynote address by SIGCOMM award winner, Prof. David Farber * 9 single-track sessions (communication protocols, traffic modeling, wireless networking, application support, etc.) * social events for sharing ideas * an "Outrageous Opinions Session" where you can participate or listen to ideas that may be outrageous today, but perhaps reality tomorrow The conference will be preceded by eight tutorials covering issues from protocol design, multimedia and wireless technology, to high performance networks, security and client/server computing. A brief description of the 8 SIGCOMM tutorials follows. For more information: WWW: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm95/ S. Keshav keshav@research.att.com Telephone: +1 908 582 3384 Fax: +1 908 582 5857 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA. The tutorials ------------- MONDAY August 28th: 1) Hot Topics in Networking including ATM, Multimedia & Wireless by Dr. Raj Jain, Professor, Ohio State U. (Code MF-RJ) Gives technical professionals an overview of recent advances in networking. Covers trends in networking and technical issues in topics that are being hotly debated in the networking community. 2) Designing Protocols using Techniques from Distributed Algorithms by Dr. George Varghese, Assoc. Professor, Washington Univ, St. Louis Shows that techniques from distributed algorithms can be used systematically to design and understand real network protocols. 3) Rethinking Client/Server Computing by Marc Andressen, Vice President of Technology and Co-founder, Netscape Communications Corporation Shows where contemporary client/server information systems on the Internet will be going over the next few years. Presents a new model for information publishing, database access, and interpersonal communication that is being applied to the enterprise in addition to its popular use on the Internet. 4) Host-Network Interface Issues in High Performance Networks by Dr. Bruce Davie, Director, Internetworking Research Group, Bell Communications Research Focuses on the issues that must be considered in the design and implementation of high-performance host-network interfaces. A key theme is that one must consider the entire networking subsystem of the host, including host software & the network interface hardware. TUESDAY August 29th: 5) Designing Secure Protocols by Dr. Radia Perlman, Novell, Inc. and Charlie Kaufman, Lotus Corp. Shows how to use cryptography, together with a properly designed protocol, to protect information from disclosure and modification. 6) Multimedia Networking by Dr. Aurel A. Lazar, Department of Electrical Engineering & Center for Telecommunications Research, Columbia University Intended for researchers in industry and academia involved in the study, design and implementation of scalable multimedia networking architectures supporting interoperable exchange mechanisms for interactive and on demand multimedia applications with quality of service requirements. 7) The Ethernet Renaissance: Key Protocol Enhancements by Henry Yang, Technical Director, Digital Equipment Corp. Focuses on recent trends and developments in Ethernet and the support of Ethernet in new technology like ATM. We will cover both the myths and the realities in Ethernet. 8) Congestion Management in High Speed Networks by Dr. K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Bell Laboratories Reviews the work done in the past decade in flow and congestion control and avoidance and examines recent work in congestion management for ATM.