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ACM-W: In 2013, SIGMOBILE continues to sponsor ACM-W (ACM’s Women in Computing organization). “ACM-W's mission is to celebrate, inform and support women in computing, and work with the ACM-W community of computer scientists, educators, employers and policy makers to improve working and learning environments for women.” This is an organization that the Executive Committee (EC) whole-heartedly supports. Women in CS education can request sponsorship for SIGMOBILE conferences, and for eligible cases, the EC will provide sponsorship for travel and registration. ACM’s New Learning Webinar Series Last year SIGMOBILE helped to launch ACM’s new Learning Webinar series, on January 26, 2012, when David B. Johnson, SIGMOBILE’s Past Chair, served as the moderator for the pilot webinar in the series. The webinar series continues to be a great success in 2013. SIGMOBILE Conferences and Workshops SIGMOBILE currently sponsors or co-sponsors five annual conferences, all recognized as the premier conferences and focus areas within the field:
MobiCom 2012, the 18th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, was held at the Hilton Istanbul, in Istanbul, Turkey, August 22-16, 2012. The General Chairs were Özgür B. Akan (Koc University, Turkey) and Eylem Ekici (The Ohio State University, USA), and the Program Co-Chairs were Lili Qiu (University of Texas at Austin, USA) and Alex C. Snoeren (University of California, San Diego, USA). The technical program featured two plenary speakers: The first, Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) on NanoNetworks: A New Frontier in Communications; and Three Theories for Delays, Clocks and Security in Wireless Networks by Prof. P. R. Kumar (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA). The MobiCom 2012 program also included two days of workshops: On Wednesday August 22nd:
And on Sunday, August 26th:
MobiCom 2013 will be held September 30th – October 4th at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, Florida. The General Chair is Sumi Helal (University of Florida, USA), and the Program Co-Chairs are Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft, USA) and Robin Kravets (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA). MobiHoc 2012 was covered in last year’s report. MobiHoc 2013, the 14th International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking, will be held at the LaLit Ashok hotel Bangalore, India, July 29th to August 1st 2013. The General Chairs will be A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) and D. Manjunath (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay). The Technical Program Chairs will be Massimo Fanceschetti (UC San Diego) and Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly/CERTH). Also, the MobiHoc 2014 conference is planned to be held in August 2014 in Philadelphia, PA, USA. MobiSys 2013, the 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, was held at the Sheraton Hotel, June 25th – 29th, 2013, in Taipei, Taiwan, in-cooperation with SIGOPS. The General Co-chairs were Hao-Hua Chu (National Taiwan University) and Polly Huang (National Taiwan University), and the Technical Program Chairs were Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University) and Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research). The MobiSys 2013 technical program began with a keynote talk by Prof. Patrick Baudisch (Hasso Plattner Institute) on Natural User Interface Hardware. On Day 2, a panel was held on Untold Stories of Research, with Moderator: Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University) and panelists: Jane Liu (Academia Sinica), Ashu Sabharwal (Rice University), Mahadev Satyanarayanan (CMU), Lin Zhong (Rice University). The MobiSys program also featured 3 workshops, a tutorial, and a PhD Forum on Tuesday, June 25th.
MobiSys 2014 is being planned for June 16 – 19, 2014 at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The General Co-Chairs will be Andrew Campbell and David Kotz (Dartmouth College) and the Co-Program Chairs will be Landon Cox (Duke University) and Morley Mao (University of Michigan) SenSys 2012, the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, was held November 6-9th 2012, Toronto, Canada. The General Chair was Rasit Eskicioglu (University of Manitoba) and the Program Co-Chairs were Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth College) and Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology). SenSys is co-sponsored by SIGMOBILE and SIGCOMM (30% each); and SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS, and SIGBED (10% each) and the NSF. The opening day began with a keynote presentation by Prof. David E. Culler (Chair EECS Associate CIO, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA) titled, "Sustainable Energy Networks – a SenSys Grand Opportunity". There were three workshops and a Doctoral Colloquium held on November 6th, 2012.
In addition, the SenSys 2012 program included an N2 Women event on Wednesday, November 7th. SenSys 2013 will be held November 11-15th, 2013, in Rome Italy. General Chair: Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’) and Program Co-Chairs, Landon Cox (Duke University) and Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia). Ubicomp 2012, the 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, was held September 5-8th 2012, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and co-sponsored with SIGCHI. The General Chair was Anind K. Dey (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), and the Program Co-Chairs were Hao-Hua Chu (National Taiwan University) and Gillian Hayes (University of California, Irvine, USA). A keynote launched the conference, presented by Steve Cousins (Willow Garage) on “Personal Robots on the Horizon.” Ubicomp workshops were held on Sunday, 18th September
In 2013 ACM Ubicomp will merge with the long running independent Pervasive computing conference and become Ubicomp 2013. The conference will be held 8th – 12th September, 2013, in Zurich, Switzerland. The General Chairs will be Friedemann Mattern (ETH Zurich, CH) and Silvia Santini (TU Darmstadt, DE) and the Program Co-Chairs will be John F. Canny (UC Berkeley, USA), Marc Langheinrich (University of Lugano, CH), and Jun Rekimoto (University of Tokyo, Japan) In addition to the conferences and co-located listed workshops above, SIGMOBILE also sponsors the HotMobile workshop (previously WMCSA) as a stand-alone event, not co-located with a conference. The HotMobile workshop series focuses on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies, in a small workshop format that makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. The Executive Committee encourages the MobiCom Program Committee meeting to be collocated with HotMobile to ensure that a representative selection of senior researchers attend the event. This workshop was previously sponsored each year by the IEEE Computer Society, but has been sponsored only by ACM SIGMOBILE since HotMobile 2008. HotMobile 2013, the 14th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, was held February 26-27th, 2013, in Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA. The General Chair was Sharad Agarwal (Microsoft Research, USA), and the Program Chair, Alexander Varshavasky (AT&T Labs, USA). The conference opened with a keynote by Thad Starner (Georgia Institute of Technology), titled “Wearable Computing: Through the Looking Glass.” HotMobile 2014 will be held February 26-27th, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California, USA. The General Chair is Matt Welsh (Google Inc), and the Program is Chair Stefan Sariou (Microsoft Reseach).
SIGMOBILE also sponsored the following high-value additional events over the last year. These are annual decisions and sponsorship one year does not guarantee support in a following year. If the standard remains high, SIGMOBILE is however likely to continue with its support.
Each year, SIGMOBILE is also "in-cooperation" with a number of events sponsored by other organizations. Events offered "in-cooperation with" SIGMOBILE allow its members to register at the same discounted rate as for members of other sponsoring organizations for the event, providing a significant savings to SIGMOBILE members. During this past year (July 2012 through June 2013), SIGMOBILE was in-cooperation with the following events:
SIGMOBILE continues to be fortunate to receive strong support for its conferences and workshops in the period July 2012-2013, from leading-edge companies and organizations from around the world. This last year, many organizations have contributed to SIGMOBILE conferences and workshops, helping to ensure their success. This include the following: Academia Sinica, AirTight, Avealabs, AT&T, CDAC, CMU, COMSNETS Assoc., Dejan Research, Extreme Networks, facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Intel-ISTC (Social, NTU, PC), KOC University, Mediatek, Microsoft Research, Ministry of Economic Affaris, R.O.C, Motorola, National Taiwan University, NSC, NSF, Sapienza (Univ. of Rome), Taipei City Government, TATA Consultancy Services, Tejas Networks, Telifonica, TUBITAK, Qualcomm. As always, SIGMOBILE is sincerely grateful for all contributions. SIGMOBILE Publications In addition to the proceedings for each of the conferences and workshops that SIGMOBILE sponsors, SIGMOBILE also publishes a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal/newsletter for SIGMOBILE members, Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R). Non-members may also subscribe to MC2R, and the publication is also available in the ACM Digital Library. The Editor-in-Chief for MC2R is Prof. Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). The current Area Editors for MC2R are Dr. Sharad Agarwal (Microsoft Research, USA), Prof. Aditya Akella (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Prof. Christian Bettstetter (University of Klagenfurt, Germany), Prof. Srdjan Capkun (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland), Prof. Augustin Chaintreau (Columbia University, USA), Prof. Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University, USA), Dr. Michelle Gong (Google, USA) , Prof. Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University, USA), Prof. Prashant Krishnamurthy (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Prof. Panos Papadimitratos (EPFL, Switzerland), Prof. Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Prof. Moustafa Youssef (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt), and Prof. Lin Zhong (Rice University, USA). MC2R publishes articles that provide a balance between state-of-the-art research and practice, with a thorough pre-publication review of every article by experts in the field. Beyond papers reporting the latest research results in all areas related to SIGMOBILE's scope, MC2R keeps the SIGMOBILE community apprised of relevant happenings in the area, by providing regular features on the status of major international mobile computing and communications standards, such as those from IETF, ITU, ISO, and IEEE. The journal also provides a variety of additional resources, such as bibliographies of recent publications in other journals, paper and book reviews, workshop and conference reports, calls for papers, information on research groups throughout the world, bibliographies and locations of technical reports, and other general news in the field. In addition, MC2R places a strong emphasis on quick publication of interesting completed, or work-in-progress technical work; the average turnaround time for papers published in MC2R is about 6 months. Papers in MC2R are selected mainly from an ongoing open call for papers, plus special sections based on conferences and workshops, occasional special topic issues, and some invited papers. The acceptance rate for papers submitted through the open call for papers is quite selective, remaining under about 20%. In the recent issues, the following are some example articles that were published in the different categories described above: (i) interviews (expert testimonies) of leading researchers in our field conducted by graduate students at various universities, (ii) a survey of the ongoing efforts of standards groups, (iii) articles capturing experiences of different research groups in building large-scale wireless test-beds, (iv) report on different conferences and workshops, and (v) comments on approaches to judge the quality of different publication venues, e.g., conferences, workshops, and journals. In addition, for peer-reviewed articles that have been published in these issues, the editorial team has introduced a mechanism by which a summary of the reviews, and the author response to these reviews, are published along with the final manuscript. This allows the publication to capture more of the dialogue between the authors and reviewers in realizing the final version of the paper. All aspects of the journal's operation are run entirely by volunteers, including final assembly of each issue. SIGMOBILE Newsletter SIGMOBILE also publishes a monthly E-Mail Newsletter for its members. This electronic newsletter was started in 2004 and is edited by SIGMOBILE's Information Director, Prof. Robert Steele (University of, Sydney, Australia). The newsletter includes SIGMOBILE announcements, pointers to relevant mainstream news articles of interest to SIGMOBILE members, a calendar of upcoming events of interest to our members, and pointers to developer news for active developers in the area of mobile computing and wireless networking. SIGMOBILE Website As an additional resource for our members and the community, SIGMOBILE maintains an extensive web site at http://www.sigmobile.org, including information about SIGMOBILE and its activities, information about our journal/newsletter MC2R, and information about membership in SIGMOBILE. This web site also contains archived copies of most SIGMOBILE conference web sites, including all previous years of MobiCom, MobiHoc, and MobiSys. SIGMOBILE Social Media SIGMOBILE makes use of social media to support interactive communication with its community. It has groups on LinkedIn and Facebook and has a SIGMOBILE Twitter feed. SIGMOBILE Local Chapters There are currently four Local Chapters of SIGMOBILE chartered with ACM – one added this year:
Local Chapters provide a local focus for activities related to the area of SIGMOBILE, including mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking, and continue SIGMOBILE’s work within their local regions. We encourage interested groups around the world to form a SIGMOBILE chapter in their local community, school, city, or region. For details about the benefits and procedures for forming a Local SIGMOBILE Chapter, see http://www.sigmobile.org/chaptera /. SIGMOBILE Membership The SIG’s membership was 698 on June 30th 2013, down 4% from the previous year. The membership has spanned the 698-800 range for last 6 years, and for all time has been in the 437-872 range. SIGMOBILE provides substantial benefits to our members, including:
. In addition, SIGMOBILE provides additional benefits to the broader community served by SIGMOBILE:
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