SIGMOBILE 1997-98 Annual Report

Awards
 
This year's SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award was given to Professor David J. Goodman, the Director of the Wireless Information Networking Laboratory (WINLAB) at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. Professor Goodman has been a leader in the field of wireless networking for the past twenty years, with far-reaching achievements as researcher, manager, teacher, and visionary. In particular, this Award recognizes David's contributions to multimedia wireless communication technology, as exemplified by his pioneering concept of Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA), and his vision and formation of WINLAB, a well renown research laboratory dedicated to advances in wireless information networks.

The principal nominator was Prof. Raymond Steele, Chairman of Multiple Access Communications, Inc., and head of Communications Research, University of Southampton, U.K. The other nominators were Dr. On-Ching Yue from Lucent Technologies, Dr. Larry Greenstein, Head of wirelesss communications research at AT&T, Prof, Jack Holtzman from Rutgers University, and Dr. Sanjeev Nanada from Lucent Technology.

This year's Best Student Paper Award at MobiCom'97 went to Todd D. Hodes, a graduate student in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley, for his paper titled, "Composable Ad Hoc Mobile Services for Universal Interaction".