Note electronic registration closes August 17th (this Friday)! After this date only on-site registration will be available.

Call for Participation ACM SIGCOMM 2001 Conference

August 27 - August 31, 2001 University of California, San Diego, CA USA http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2001

ACM SIGCOMM 2001 is the annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), a single-track, highly selective conference with a technical program of 23 papers, tutorials by noted instructors on the two days prior, and a panel discussion.

Registration details are available at the SIGCOMM website above.

Tutorials

SIGCOMM 2001 begins with two days of full- and half-day tutorials covering single topics in detail at both the introductory and advanced level. Space is still available. Tutorials offered this year are:

- Wireless Data Phil Karn, Qualcomm, Inc. - Traffic Measurement for IP Operations Matt Grossglauser and Jennifer Rexford, AT&T - Interdomain Routing and BGP Timothy G. Griffin, AT&T - Equilibrium and Dynamics of TCP Prof. Steven H. Low, California Inst. of Technology - Algorithms for Networks: Some Techniques for Design and Analysis Ashish Goel, University of Southern California Nick McKeown and Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University

SIGCOMM Award

The SIGCOMM Award is given annually to a person whose career and technical achievements demonstrate a long-term commitment to the field of data communications. ACM SIGCOMM is pleased to announce that the 2001 SIGCOMM Award is being given to Van Jacobson of Packet Design, Inc. Van Jacobson will receive the award and give the conference keynote address in the opening session on Wednesday.

Support from Cisco, IBM, Deloitte and Touche, PMC-Sierra, Marconi, Procket Networks, Agilent Technologies, Microsoft Research, and USC/ISI is gratefully acknowledged.