SIGCOMM 95 URL and 95 SIGCOMM Award

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

                                     Advance Program
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                                    ACM SIGCOMM 1995


          Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols
                              for Computer Communication


                                  Cambridge Marriott Hotel
                                Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA




                               August 28 to September 1, 1995
                          (Tutorials and Workshop, August 28 and 29)




                                      Sponsored  by
                    The ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication


                            With support from: MCI, BBN, Cisco




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    Greetings from the General Chair:


        I invite you to attend the ACM SIGCOMM 95 Conference. The conference is 
        an international forum on computer communication network applications 
        and technologies, architectures, protocols, algorithms, and performance
        models. This year it is being held at the Cambridge Marriott Hotel, 
        Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Cambridge area is rich in culture, 
        history, and tradition. It is the home of many of our leading 
        educational institutions and a major center of high technology 
        research and development.


        This year we have planned an exciting program. The conference 
        will be preceded by eight "Hot Topic" tutorials covering issues
        from protocol design, multimedia and wireless technology, to high 
        performance networks, security and client/server computing. The 
        technical conference begins August 30 with a keynote address by 
        this year's ACM SIGCOMM award winner, Dr. David Farber. This will be  
        followed by a highly selective three-day single track technical
        program with 30 papers in eleven sessions covering topics  
        like switching and routing, communication protocols, bandwidth  
        reservation, traffic  modeling, protocol implementations, wireless  
        networking, and application support.


        Besides our technical program, this year will offer the first 
        invitational workshop focused on the emerging topic of middleware 
        infrastructure. For one and a half days, participants will 
        discuss and debate new common services and management that will 
        sit above the traditional communication network infrastructure layers, 
        extending our networking capabilities into the next century. 


        Three  events will provide a chance to meet colleagues and discuss 
        topics of mutual interest. From 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 29, a 
        reception will welcome you to SIGCOMM 95. The conference banquet is 
        Wednesday, August 30 at the Boston Computer Museum, where you will be 
        free to explore the museum and their new exhibit, the "Networked Planet 
        Gallery".  Thursday, August 31 evening, there will be an Outrageous 
        Opinions Session where you can participate or listen to ideas that may 
        be outrageous today, but perhaps reality tomorrow.


        The city of Cambridge and the surrounding areas of Boston are 
        beautiful this time of year. Please join us for outstanding technical 
        presentations, an opportunity to interact with colleagues at the 
        social events, and the chance to participate in one of the premier 
        international communication network forums.
     
        Stuart Wecker








      *         The deadline for early registration is 1 August, 1995. The 
                hotel registration deadline is 11 August, 1995.
      *         On-site registration will be available from 7:30 a.m.  
                to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and during the welcoming
                reception, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 29. 
      *         Lunches will be served Monday and Tuesday for those 
                attending all day tutorials or two half day tutorials. Lunches 
                will also be served on all three conference days (Wednesday 
                through Friday).


      For more information:


                WWW: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm95/
             
                S. Keshav  keshav@research.att.com
                Telephone: +1 908 582 3384   Fax: +1 908 582 5857
                AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, 
                Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA.










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                                Technical Program
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                                WEDNESDAY, August 30




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     8:45am - 10:00am                   Keynote Session
     Chair:                             Dave Clark and Karen Sollins (MIT)
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        Keynote address by the 1995 SIGCOMM Award winner, Dr. David Farber 
        (U. Pennsylvania)