Chairman's Message

Conferences

The 1993 SIGCOMM Conference will take place at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco during the week of September 13-17. Tutorials will be offered on the first two days of the week; the conference pro- gram will begin on Wednesday. The advance program will appear shortly after you receive this issue of CCR. I hope to see many of you there!

The venue and organizing committee for the 1994 conference have been selected. The conference will be held at University College London, under the general chairmanship of Jon Crowcroft; Craig Partridge and Stephen Pink will serve as program co-chairmen, and Soren-Aksel Sorensen will serve as local arrangements chairman. For further information about the 1994 conference, send an electronic mail message to "sigcomm94-info@cs.ucl.ac.uk".

The 1993 SIGCOMM Award

There is still plenty of time to submit nominations for the 1993 SIGCOMM Award, which recognizes life- time accomplishment in and contribution to the field of data communications. The deadline for nominations for the 1993 SIGCOMM Award has been moved up to the end of March, in order to ensure that the winner can be selected in time for an announcement to appear in the preliminary SIGCOMM conference program. Information about how to prepare and submit a nomination may be obtained from Frank Kuo, the chairman of the Award committee; his address and phone number are listed on the inside front cover of CCR.

The SIGCOMM Logo

Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed something new on the cover of this issue of CCR - the SIGCOMM logo, which is based on a design by graphic artist Steven Quine. SIGCOMM has, of course, been operating quite well without a logo for many years; the adoption of a distinctive SIGCOMM graphic was prompted by the recent agreement between ACM and IEEE to jointly publish the Transactions on Networking. The cover design for the new Transactions calls for the logos of each of the three sponsoring societies - ACM SIGCOMM, the IEEE Communications Society, and the IEEE Computer Society - to appear in a banner across the upper part of the cover. Only SIGCOMM lacked an established logo. This impediment is now removed.

Transactions on Networking

The first issue of the new bi-monthly IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking will appear in February. The editors have assembled an excellent set of papers for the inaugural issue. A one-year subscription (6 issues) is available to individuals for only $22. To start a subscription, or to get more information about the Trans- actions, send an electronic mail message to "acmhelp@acmvm" (Bitnet) or "acmhelp%acmvm.bitnet@- cunyvm.cuny.edu" (Internet), or call the ACM Member Services department at +1 212 626 0500 (fax +1 212 944 1318).

Speak Out!

Send your ideas, gripes, suggestions, whatever to the SIGCOMM officers at the electronic mail address "sigcomm@bbn.com". You may not get everything you ask for, but you will get a response.

On behalf of the SIGCOMM officers, I wish all of you a happy and prosperous New Year.

Lyman Chapin.

Editor's Message

CSC '93

ACM is gearing up to make the 21st annual Computer Science Conference a big success. See the ACM press release in the Announcements section of this CCR for the latest information CSC '93.

Paper Backlog

The paper backlog at CCR has grown over the past six months to nearly four issues at the current accep- tance rate. This, of course, is a mixed blessing. On the positive side, this means more and better quality ma- terial for CCR that ever before. On the negative side, the volume has increased my administrative duties and some papers have not received the timely reviews and publication they deserve. I am working hard to im- prove the situation by getting papers out for review faster, bugging the reviewers for comments more fre- quently, and referring more papers to other journals when either the material is not appropriate for CCR, or the paper contains significant research of archival value, when I pass the paper on to the new IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networks.

Authors and reviewers, please bear with me! I'm more committed than ever to both timeliness and qual- ity in the papers published in CCR.

Bibliography

A few new journals have been added to the material scanned for the bibliography. These include Elec- tronic Networking and The Journal of High Speed Networks. I hope you find the citations from these jour- nals valuable. Since my own research interests include operating systems and distributed systems, the bibli- ography has also been covering those fields for citations related to communications and networking. If you have any comments on how useful and balanced the bibliography has been over the last year, please let me know. This is one feature entirely under the editor's control, and hence I can be unusually responsive to re- quests for improvements.

Miscellaneous

I have just been informed that Imrich Chlamtac, our General Chair for SIGCOMM '93, has been named a Fellow of the IEEE. Congratualtions Imrich!
David R. Oran.