N-1-2-100.06  SIGCOMM by A. Lyman Chapin*, (lyman@bbn.com)


The annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data
Communication (SIGCOMM) will be held this year in Baltimore, Maryland
(USA) on August 18-20.  The conference will feature 28 technical
papers covering a wide variety of topics within the overall conference
theme of "communication architectures and protocols".  Two all-day
tutorials will be offered on August 17, one on "Optical Networks" and
one on "Metropolitan Area Networks: IEEE 802.6 and FDDI".  For
information about the conference, to which all interested parties are
invited (whether SIGCOMM members or not), contact the general
chairman, Dr. Deepinder Sidhu, at the University of Maryland
(sidhu@umbc3.umbc.edu).

The SIGCOMM Award will be presented during the opening session of the
conference on August 18.  The Award recognizes lifetime achievement in
and contributions to the field of data communications; it is presented
annually to a person whose work, over the course of his or her career,
represents a significant contribution to the field and a substantial
influence on the work and perceptions of others in the field.

SIGCOMM, in cooperation with ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the
IEEE Communications Society, is sponsoring a new technical journal to
be called "IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking".  The new Transactions
will be a joint editorial and business enterprise of the IEEE
Communications and Computer Societies and ACM, and is expected to
become the principal refereed, archival journal for the field of data
networking.  The first issue of "Transactions on Networking" will be
published in February, 1993.  ACM and IEEE members will begin to see
the new journal on their membership renewal forms later this year.


* Chairman, SIGCOMM