From touch at isi.edu Wed Jun 14 09:49:21 2017 From: touch at isi.edu (Joe Touch) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:49:21 -0000 Subject: [e2e] Passing of an Internet historian - Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan Message-ID: <2cdb6f08-b577-01dc-d107-205da4f9da1c@isi.edu> 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 From touch at isi.edu Wed Jun 14 12:00:23 2017 From: touch at isi.edu (Joe Touch) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:00:23 -0000 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, A quick update: JJ Garcia-Luna was the first SIGCOMM Conference Coordinator, 1990-1993 Chris created the modern variant that carries forward, serving from 1999-2003 and as Emeritus from 2003-2007. 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