July 1998 - August
1999
Submitted by: Victor Bahl, SIGMOBILE Vice Chair
SIGMOBILE solidified its position as a healthy and vibrant
technical organization focussed on issues relevant to
its members, who share a common interest in researching,
building, and using mobile networking and computing applications
and services. The organization continued to grow in all
its dimensions -- organizing and establishing its conferences
as the most prestigious events in the field, improving
the reputation of its publications with great reports
and articles, and increasing the awareness of the research
its members are carrying out, within the academic, industrial,
and governmental agencies world-wide.
SIGMOBILE's annual conference, MobiCom,
held in Seattle, Washington, was a resounding success.
The conference was attended by over 500 people from 30
countries, a 100% increase over the previous year (which
itself was a banner year). The conference was supported
by 24 industrial sponsors, proving that SIGMOBILE has
indeed fostered a strong relationship between industry
and academic researchers. Although primarily a research
conference, dozens of companies exhibited their products,
and the conference, for the first time in its history,
was covered both by mainstream media such as the Seattle
Post-intelligencer and ABC.com news as well as by academic
magazines.
SIGMOBILE's official publication, MC2R,
continued to maintain its reputation as a high quality
scientific journal. Due to a recently increased page budget,
the journal was able to publish some of the largest and
highest-quality issues to date. Particular highlights
of the year included papers from SIGMOBILE Award winners,
articles on current mobile computing standards from leaders
of the standards boards; and reprinted seminal and classical
papers in ubiquitous computing; as well as our regular
features and peer-reviewed, highly selective technical
papers.
Overall, 1998-99 was a great year for SIGMOBILE.
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