SIGCOMM Program Review

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SIGCOMM Program Review

• Tilman WolfSecretary/Treasurer, SIGCOMM

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SIGCOMM

• Special Interest Group on Data Communications
• Officers
• Jennifer Rexford, Chair
• Vern Paxson, Vice-Chair
• Tilman Wolf, Secretary/Treasurer
• Membership
• 1802 in 2006 (down 18 from 2455 in 2002)
• 80-85 2-year retention69-78 total retention
• Member benefits
• Newsletter
• Conference discounts

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Activities

• Publications
• Quarterly Newsletter and SIGCOMM conference
  proceesings (Computer Communications Review)
• Conferences
• Sponsored SIGCOMM Conference, IMC, HotNets,
  SIGCOMM Asia Workshop
• Co-Sponsored ANCS, SenSys
• In-cooperation NSDI, LANC, VoIP Security,
  NOSSDAV, NetDB, and CoNext
• Awards
• Lifetime Achievement Award (since 1989)
• SIGCOMM Student Paper Award (since 1986)
• Test of Time Paper Award (since 2006)

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Finances

• Fund balance
• 591,880 in 2006 (up 116 from 273,954 in
  2002)
• More than recoveredfrom 2002 woes
• Conferences
• Surplus generated in 20 out of 24 conferences
  sponsored or co-sponsored 20022006
• Surplus used for innovative outreach
• International workshops
• GeoDiversity grants

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Outlook

• Maintaining our strength
• High-impact events (SIGCOMM conference 4 on
  citeseer)
• Vibrant community with high membership retention
• Excellent finances
• Dealing with success (too many conference
  submissions)
• Larger programs
• Two-tiered PCs
• Co-located workshops
• Livening the SIG
• Events on emerging topics HotNets, workshops
  with SIGCOMM
• CCR online and editorial zone
• Co-sponsoring of related interdisciplinary
  conferences (ANCS, SenSys)
• Public reviews
• Broadening the SIG
• Workshops to integrate Latin America and Asia
• Sponsorship of major European conference (CoNext)
  in 2007
• GeoDiversity travel grants