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Simon S. Lam Wins
2004 ACM SIGCOMM Award for Networking
Advancements
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SIGCOMM,
ACM's Special Interest Group on Data
Communications, has awarded its highest honor to
Simon S. Lam of the University of Texas at
Austin for his seminal contributions to computer
networking. Lam was recognized by the 2004 ACM
SIGCOMM Award for his vision, breadth, and rigor
in contributing to secure network
communication.
Through his research,
teaching, and service, Lam provided
forward-looking foundations for computer
networking research. His work in 1993 on the
design and construction of the first socket-like
abstraction for secure network programming
preceded by two years the initial Internet draft
on the secure socket layer (SSL) widely used
today for e-commerce between browsers and
servers. His research extended to the analysis
of network and multiaccess protocols and
queueing networks, and to the design of
mechanisms for quality of
service.
Beginning with his PhD thesis,
Lam provided insights on sharing broadcast
channels by random access. His work led to
effective algorithms for adaptive control and
served as a foundation for subsequent research
on random access protocols.
While at IBM
Research, Lam made fundamental contributions to
the theory of queueing networks. His efforts
were motivated by applications to the
performance analysis of packet switching
networks, including assessment of network
congestion control and window-based flow
control. During the 1980s, Lam played a major
role in the design, specification, verification,
and conversion of network protocols. His work
inspired a large body of subsequent research on
the topic.
Lam made substantial
contributions to network and end system support
for quality of service guarantees. His
formulation of an end-to-end delay guarantee for
a general class of servers unified previous work
and simplified subsequent analysis of quality of
service disciplines.
Lam is an ACM Fellow
and an IEEE Fellow. He is a winner of the 2004
W. Wallace McDowell Award, the 2001 William R.
Bennett Prize, and the 1975 Leonard G. Abraham
Prize. Over the course of 25 years in computer
networking and data communications, Lam
contributed to the technical organization of the
community in many ways, serving as Editor in
Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
the field's premier journal. He has supervised
numerous doctoral students, many of whom are
themselves ongoing contributors to computer
networking.
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STORIES
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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How
They Could Steal the Election This
Time
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The Nation, July
29, 2004
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Peter Neumann cites ways
computerized voting can be tampered
with.
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Diverse
Sciences Propel Bioinformatics
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eWeek, August 20,
2004
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ACM Kanellakis Award
winner Gene Myers calls for more
cross-disciplinary conferences and
researchers.
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By
the Book
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InformationWeek,
August 23, 2004
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Former ACM Pres Stuart
Zweben says students are getting cold feet about
entering CS
field.
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Is
Encryption Doomed?
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Technology Review,
September 1, 2004
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RSA co-developer and
2002 Turing Award co-recipient Len Adelman on
one of encryption's thorniest
problems.
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Geeks
Code for the Gold
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Wired News,
September 14, 2004
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ACM a sponsor of
high-school programming competition in
Athens.
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CMU
Project Envisions Computers Even the Poorest
Third World Farmer Could Use
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Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, September 20,
2004
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Turing Award winner Raj
Reddy sees combination PC, TV, video recorder
and telephone device helping the poor to
communicate.
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World's
Top Collegiate Programmers Go Head-to-Head at
IBM-Sponsored "Battle of the
Brains"
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Market Wire,
September 23, 2004
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This year's ICPC
competitors to use IBM POWER-based parallel
supercomputers.
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Paperless
E-Voting Gets Thumbs Down From
ACM
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IDG News Service,
September 28, 2004
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SIGGRAPH
2004 in the News
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