|
SIGMOBILE 1998-99 Annual Report
Logo Contest
To improve SIGMOBILE name recognition, we organized
a worldwide SIGMOBILE
Logo Design Contest. The contest was open to everyone
in the community (both members and non-members of SIGMOBILE).
The objective was to solicit an exciting logo that best
represents our vibrant community. Participants were
asked to keep the following criteria in mind when designing
their logos: (1) The logo had to be cool. We wanted
submissions that could be used by SIGMOBILE for at least
10 years. (2) The logo had to be unique. We put the
responsibility on the participants to send us only those
logos that belonged to them. (3) The logo had to be
printable.
In response to our call for participation, we received
30 entries. The winner of this contest will be selected
by a committee consisting of the ACM SIGMOBILE Executive
Committee and other active members.
We are currently in the final stages of completing
this contest and the winner will be announced soon.
Annual Business Meeting On October 28, 1998, SIGMOBILE
held its first annual public business meeting. The meeting
was held at the Omni Dallas Hotel, during MobiCom'98.
The 1999 annual business meeting was held on August 17,
1999 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in downtown
Seattle, Washington, during MobiCom'99. Both meetings
were attended by most of the SIGMOBILE officers and several
outspoken members.
Collaborative efforts with other SIGs, sibling societies
and Industry
MobiCom'98 was co-sponsored by SIGCOMM,
and IEEE Communications
Society. Financial support for the conference was
provided by Microsoft
Research, Lucent,
Chromium Corporation,
and Ericsson.
MobiCom'99 was Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE
Communications Society, in cooperation with ACM
SIGCOMM, SIGOPS,
SIGMETRICS,
and SIGMOD;
The USENIX Association;
the IEICE; and
the IEE. Financial
support for the conference was provided by Intel,
Microsoft
Research, AT&T
Cambridge, Compaq
Research, IBM
Research, Xerox,
BBN Technologies/GTE
BellSouth
WD, CUE, Go
America, InfoWave,
MediaServ.Com,
Nettech, Nextel,
Symbol, Research
In Motion / Blackbury, WAP
Forum, Wireless
Knowledge, American
Mobile, Bell
Atlantic Mobile, Intersil
Corporation / Harris Semiconductors, Lucent,
Metricom, and
SmartServ Online.
Future Plans
Our membership has stayed steady for this past year.
Although this was slightly disappointing for many of
us in the Executive Committee, we were happy to note
that while SIG memberships within ACM have in general
been declining, SIGMOBILE's membership has remained
solid. Our retention rate continues to be the highest
among all SIGs. We are taking concrete steps to increase
our visibility in the community and have appointed a
Publicity Director to focus on our ability to attract
new members. We have worked hard to improve our conferences
and journals and hope to see the fruits of these efforts
in the year ahead.
MobiCom
2000, our flagship conference, will be held in Boston,
Massachusetts. Boston is one of most high-tech areas
of the US, and also has one of the largest number of
institutes of higher learning in the country. By holding
MobiCom in Boston, we are hoping to attract a large
number of attendees from the local industry and from
universities. The General Chair for this conference
is Raymond Pickholtz, from the George Washington University,
and the Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs are Dr.
Ramon Caceres, from AT&T Labs, and Prof. J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves,
from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
MobiCom 2001 is being planned for Europe.
Listing of Computer and other equipment purchases
None.
|
