From aa at cs.ucla.edu Mon Jul 10 13:21:25 2017 From: aa at cs.ucla.edu (Alex Afanasyev) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:21:25 -0700 Subject: [e2e] ACM SIGCOMM 2017: Call For Participation (Early Registration: July 14) Message-ID: ============================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACM SIGCOMM 2017 **Early registration deadline: July 14th, 11:59pm CDT** http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2017/registration.html ============================================== The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to ACM SIGCOMM 2017, to be held on UCLA campus in Los Angeles, CA, USA on August 21-25, 2017. The conference program (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2017/program.html) features 11 technical sessions with 36 papers, keynote, and Athena lecture. In addition, there will be 9 workshops and 8 tutorials. From touch at isi.edu Thu Jul 13 10:38:25 2017 From: touch at isi.edu (Joe Touch) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:38:25 -0700 Subject: [e2e] Passing of an Internet historian - Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan In-Reply-To: <2cdb6f08-b577-01dc-d107-205da4f9da1c@isi.edu> References: <2cdb6f08-b577-01dc-d107-205da4f9da1c@isi.edu> Message-ID: Hi, all, I'm collecting any statements, fond memories, or photos you'd like to share about Chris, especially regarding here involvement with the SIGCOMM conference. Please contact me directly with this information. I am collecting them for the SIG. Joe On 6/14/2017 9:48 AM, Joe Touch wrote: > Hi, all, > > The following was just announced on the Sigcomm list, FYI: > > ----- > > 4. We are sad to report the passing away of longtime ACM SIGCOMM member > and enthusiastic volunteer, Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan on May 23 after a > lengthy and disabling illness. She had been a faculty member in the > Computer Sciences department at the University of Texas, Austin, for > more than two decades and helped organize the SIGCOMM conference at > Austin in 1989. Her obituary can be found here: > http://wcfish.tributes.com/obituary/read/Chris-Edmondson-Yurkanan-104821831 > > Importantly, one of her main passions was Internet (and SIGCOMM) > history: > https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e842/1d62b47d568e11dc6893f7f5603fd99d6a4c.pdf > > ---- > > > I'm sad to hear that Chris has passed, but also wanted to note some > additional ways in which Chris served the community that was not > included in the tribute: > > As far as I can tell, Chris created the role of ACM SIGCOMM Conference > Coordinator, which involved both overseeing the organization of the > SIGCOMM annual conference, but also managing request for > "in-cooperation" status. Although I'm not sure when she started, she > served through 2003, at which time the role of Conference Coordinator > Emeritus was created for her to help hand-off the role (to me, FWIW). > She served as SIG Secretary/Treasurer 1991-1995, and organized the 1999 > panel of past SIGCOMM Award recipients on its 10th anniversary. I was > also honored to host her as a USC/ISI Postel Center Visiting Research > Scholar in 2004, to investigate our archives for her research in > Internet history. > > FYI. And if you'll pardon the personal note, she is missed and > remembered fondly. > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > end2end-interest mailing list > end2end-interest at postel.org > http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/end2end-interest > Contact list-owner at postel.org for assistance.