SIGMOBILE 1998-99 Annual Report

Awards
 
1998
 
The 1998 SIGMOBILE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing was given to Dr. Robert W. Brodersen, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and Scientific Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
 
Prof. Broderson is a pioneer in wireless communications at the level on which everything depends: visionary and low-power hardware design of radios and radio systems for personal wireless communications. He was given this award for the work he did in the InfoPad project and the significance this research project has had both in academia (graduating well trained students) and in Industry (through products that have come out since).
 
The principal nominator was Prof. David Goodman, Director of the Wireless Information Networking Laboratory (WINLAB) and a Professor at Rutgers University. The other nominators were: Dr. Andrew Viterbi from Qualcomm, Dr. Bob Hewes from Texas Instruments Laboratories, Dr. Alan McLaughlin from MIT Lincoln Labs, and Prof. Rajeev Jain from the University of California, Los Angeles. The award was presented to Prof. Brodersen by Dr. Victor Bahl, SIGMOBILE's Vice Chairman, during the opening session of MobiCom'98.
 
The 1998 Best Student Paper Award at MobiCom'98 went to Young-Bae Ko, a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at the Texas A&M University, for his paper titled, "Location-Aided Routing (LAR) in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". The award plaque (along with an honorarium) was presented during the opening ceremonies of the conference in Dallas by the Technical Program Committee Chair Dr. Arvind Krishna.
 
1999
 
The 1999 SIGMOBILE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing\/b> was given to Dr. Mark D. Weiser, Chief Technology Officer of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Through his inspiring technical vision, effective evangelism and strong leadership, Dr. Weiser has inspired an entire generation of computer scientists to tackle the hardest problems of mobile computing and wireless networking. The award was given in recognition of Dr. Weiser's numerous contributions and visionary leadership in the field of Ubiquitous Computing.
 
The principal nominator was Prof. Randy Katz, Department Chairman of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Berkeley. The other nominators were: Dr. Victor Bahl from Microsoft Research, Dr. Roy Want from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock from University of California Los Angeles, and Prof. David B. Johnson from Carnegie Mellon University. The award was presented to Dr. Weiser's daughter Nicole by Dr. Victor Bahl during the opening session of MobiCom'99.
 
The 1999 Best Student Paper Award for MobiCom'99 went to Amiya Bhattacharya, a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at the University of North Texas, for his paper titled, "LeZi-Update: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Track Mobile Users in PCS Networks".