SIGMOBILE 1996-97 Annual Report
 
Educational activities or initiatives
 
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International initiatives
MobiCom'97 is to be held in Hungary. This initiative has attracted many well-respected individual voluneers from several European countries, several of whom are serving as members of the MobiCom'97 executive committee as well as its technical committee. MobiCom is jointly sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, an internationally respected scientific community in Europe.

Collaborative efforts with other SIGs or sister societies
MobiCom'97 conference is co-sponsored by SIGCOMM, and IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC).

Outstanding volunteer efforts
We would like to thank Professors Chris Rose of Rutgers University and David B. Johnson of Carnegie Mellon University, the technical program co-chairs for MobiCom'97 conference.

Membership activities and/or concerns in the next 1 - 3 years, including leadership development.
Since this SIG was created, an active process of members attraction has begun. For example, all attendees of MobiCom'96 who were already members of ACM were given one year complimentary membership in SIGMOBILE. They would receive a free copy of MC²R newsletter and other SIGMOBILE membership benefits.

SIG Program Plan It seems that there is a new community, members of which are coming from different professional societies, about equally divided between industry and academia, many previously not affiliated with ACM in any way. Secondly, there is a huge interest and commercial investment in services and applications. These rely almost exclusively on "software" solutions -- the mainstay of ACM. We see therefore no reason for encroaching on well established activities, while the scope of SIGMOBILE is very wide as it is.

SIGMOBILE will address the above spectrum of issues, through its journal publications, the newsletter (MC²R) as well as its annual conference (Mobicom). The group's technical scope will reflect the emerging symbiosis of portable computers and wireless networks, addressing the convergence of mobility, computing and information organization, its access, services, management and applications.

Listing of computer and other equipment purchases There were no special equipment purchases in this reporting period.