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SIGMOBILE 1996-97 Annual Report
Conference/workshop program highlights
In November 1996 MobiCom'96 was held in New York. This
was a very successful conference with about 200 in attendance.
MobiCom'97 will be held September-October 1997 in Budapest
Hungary. About 30 papers have been accepted for MobiCom'97
conference. Alongside MobiCom'97 there will be two
workshops:
- The Second International Workshop on Satellite-based
Information Services (WOSBIS 97), and:
- The first International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms
and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications
(DIAL-M).
Awards given out (To whom and why) There are two
categories of awards by this SIG:
- Distinguished Service Award (DSA) -- DSA is awarded
on the basis of value and level of services to the
mobile networking and wireless communications community.
The award recognizes contributions to ACM SIGMOBILE,
its conferences, publications, or its local activities.
- Outstanding Contribution Award (OCA) - The Award
for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility
of Systems, Users, Data and Computing is given by
ACM SIGMOBILE to recognize an individual who has made
a significant and lasting contribution to the research
on mobile communications and wireless networking.
The contribution can be a single event or a life-time
of achievement.
SIGMOBILE 1996 OCA award was give to Professor Anthony
Ephremides of Dept. of Electrical Engineering University
of Maryland, College Park.
Professor Ephremides received this award for Outstanding
Contributions to Research on Mobility Of Systems, Users,
Data and Computing. In recognition of Professor Ephremides'
lasting contributions to a number of wireless networking
topics including distributed routing protocols, access
protocols for multi-media traffic and server scheduling
policies, the ACM SIGMOBILE award was given.
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