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ACM has announced its Fellows for 2010. Among the 41 inductees are past SIGCOMM chair Mark Crovella and former SIGCOMM PC chair Stefan Savage. SIGCOMM member David Rosenblum was also recognized as a Fellow, as was Christos Faloutsos, who has made several contributions to the networking field. Congratulations to them and all the Fellows.

Nick Feamster has been awarded the Rising Star Award by ACM SIGCOMM www.sigcomm.org, ACM's Special Interest Group on Data Communications, for his pioneering contributions to network operations and security.  Feamster, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, was cited for outstanding research contributions early in his career in network operations and security.  His ongoing work with network operators has resulted in innovative and practical systems for making networks more secure, more available, and easier to manage.   He will receive the award and deliver the keynote address at the ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) December 1, in Philadelphia, PA, USA http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/ . 

Feamster’s research in network security and operations has influenced research and industry on a national level.  Aspects of his work have also been incorporated into commercial spam filtering products and Web mail clients at Yahoo, Cisco/Ironport, and McAfee as well as a U.S. Department of Defense high-speed network monitoring project. His work on the routing configuration checker has been used by hundreds of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) around the world to check their network configurations for errors. Feamster has also been involved in setting the nation’s cyber-security agenda by developing a “wish-list” for the security community’s needs for data access, and he co-led a multi-agency workshop on “Security-Driven Architectures.”

A recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and a Sloan fellowship in 2008, Feamster won the Best Student Paper Award at ACM SIGCOMM 2006, and the Best Paper at ACM/Usenix Networked Systems Design and Implementation Symposium (NSDI) in 2005.  A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he holds S.B., M.Eng, and Ph.D. degrees from that institution.

The SIGCOMM Rising Star Award, presented annually, recognizes a young researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during the early part of his or her career.

The Best Poster winner at SIGCOMM 2010 is:

• Accelerating SSL with GPUs, Keon Jang (KAIST), Sangjin Han (KAIST), Seungyeop Han (NHN Corporation), Sue Moon (KAIST), KyoungSoo Park (KAIST) 

The Best Demo winner is: 

• MPAP: Virtualization Architecture for Heterogenous Wireless APs, Yong He (Microsoft Research Asia), Ji Fang (Microsoft Research Asia), Jiansong Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia), Haichen Shen (Microsoft Research Asia), Kun Tan (Microsoft Research Asia), Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)

The Student Research Competition Winners are: (see http://src.acm.org/ )

• Graduate 1st Place: SoftCast: One-Size-Fits-All Wireless Video, Szymon Jakubczak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Graduate 2nd Place: PixNet: LCD-Camera pairs as communication links, Samuel David Perli (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Graduate 3rd Place: SecureAngle: Improving Wireless Security Using Angle-of-Arrival Information,  Jie Xiong (University College London)
• Undergraduate 1st Place:  Unbiased Sampling in Directed Social Graph, Tianyi Wang (Tsinghua University)
• Graduate Finalist: Autonomous Traffic Engineering With Self-Configuring Topologies, Srikanth Sundaresan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Graduate Finalist: VMTorrent: Virtual Appliances on Demand, Joshua Reich (Columbia University)
• Graduate Finalist: Ripcord: A Modular Platform for Data Center Networking, Brandon Heller (Stanford University)

Dr. Radia Perlman of Intel Corporation has been awarded the 2010 SIGCOMM Award for her fundamental contributions to the Internet routing and bridging protocols that we all use and take for granted every day. Dr. Perlman will deliver the keynote address at the 2010 ACM SIGCOMM Conference to be held in New Delhi, August 30-September 3, 2010.