Technical Committee Annual Report
1998
Each
Technical Committee Chair is required to submit an Annual Report describing
the activities it sponsored in the previous year and plans for the coming
year. Please
address any questions to the Volunteer Services Coordinator, Tracy Woods, at twoods@computer.org. Technical
Committee Name: Internet Chair:
Please provide current name, address, phone, fax, and email address: Fred Douglis AT&T Labs -- Research Shannon Laboratory, Room B137 180 Park Ave, Bldg 103 P.O. Box 971 Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971 973-360-8775 (office) 973-360-7011 (fax) douglis@research.att.com http://www.research.att.com/~douglis/ Vice
Chair: Please provide current name, address, phone, fax, and email address of
"First Vice-Chair" (a second contact is necessary in case the Chair
is not reachable): Abdelsalam
(Sumi) Helal Associate
Professor University of Florida OFFICE (352) 392-6845 FAX (352) 392-3238
GSM (352) 870-1155 GSM
FAX (352) 870-1158 SEC (352)
392-2680 helal@cise.ufl.edu Room
448 CSE Bldg, Computer & Information Science & Eng. Dept. (CISE) Gainesville, FL 32611-6120, USA http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~helal Executive
Committee: Please describe the administrative organization of the Technical
Committee. Include name, address, phone, fax, and email address of each
individual: Fred
Douglis, AT&T, Chair. Sumi
Helal, University of Florida, Vice Chair. Steve
Chapin, University of Virginia, Newsletter editor/webmaster. Research Assistant Professor of
Computer Science Office: 238D Olsson Hall Office Phone: (804) 982-2220 E-mail:
chapin@cs.virginia.eduArun Iyengar , IBM, Treasurer. Arun
Iyengar , IBM, Treasurer. IBM Research T.J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Office: 914-784-6468, Fax: 914-784-7455 aruni@watson.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/i/iyenga Jim
Isaak, Chair, Subcommittee on Standards. his info you have! William
S. Harbison, Member-at-Large. Dr. William S. Harbison Nortel Networks Harlow Laboratories London Road Harlow Essex CM17 9NA UK Tel:
+44 (0) 1279 403560 Fax: +44 (0) 1279 403930 Dejan
Milojicic, Hewlett-Packard Research Labs, Member-at-Large.
c.f. TCOS Golden
G. Richard III, University of New Orleans, Member-at-Large. Golden G. Richard III, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, Dept. of Computer
Science golden@cs.uno.edu University of New Orleans (504-280-6045) finger: golden@foxglove.cs.uno.edu
(PGP) WWW:
http://www.cs.uno.edu/~golden Aristotel
Tentov, IKTI, Member-at-Large. Assistant Professor Computer Science Department Faculty of Electrical Engineering Karpos II bb, 91000 Skopje Rep. of Macedonia Tel: +389 91 363 566 Fax: +389 91 364 262 Arkady
Zaslavsky, Monash University, Member-at-large. Dr Arkady Zaslavsky email: A.Zaslavsky@Monash.edu.au School of Computer Science &
Software Engineering Monash University, Melbourne, Australia WWW
: http://www.ct.monash.edu.au/~azaslavs/ phone : (IDD + 61 3/Aus 03) 9903
2479; Room: C4.41 fax
: (IDD + 61 3/Aus 03) 9903 1071 postal: 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield
East, Vic 3145,Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YEAR END REPORT (for the
previous year) 1998 Please
answer the following questions by identifying the activities the TC conducted
that benefited Computer Society members. Please differentiate between
on-going and new projects. Start
date of your term as TC Chair: 11/30/97 End
date of your term as TC Chair: 12/31/99 Communication with Members Does
your TC publish a newsletter? If so, what is the format (web, email, mail)
and how often is it distributed? No
newsletter (yet) Does
your TC have a Web presence? If so, please include your URL and contact
information for the Webmaster. When
was the last time the Web page was updated? We
have a small site hosted by IEEE-CS. http://computer.org/tab/TCI/ Webmaster
Chapin is listed above. He has
updated it recently but
the IEEE-CS has not released these changes in months! Thus the site is very dated. Does
your TC use any other type of correspondence to communicate with members? Email
lists. tci-{announce,discuss,exec}@computer.org Formerly
at research.att.com, and may move there again,
because the listserver is ATROCIOUS.
I have
been promised a new list server at CS for many
months and eagerly await it. The
existing one
drops messages on the floor, or fails to respond to
incoming mail for many days at which point it bounces. TC Meetings How
many TC meetings did your TC have this year, and over what venue (at
conferences, teleconferences, video-conferences, etc.)? No
face-to-face meetings or teleconfs, just email, except
for the SAINT steering committee meeting in
conjunction with the 11/98 TAB meeting in LA. Conferences How
many conferences did your TC sponsor, co-sponsor, or cooperate with this
year? (please
enter a numerical response such as 5) 0 Were
there any new conferences or were any existing conferences discontinued? Started
various conferences for 1999. Was
your TC actively involved on any program committees, technical committees or
steering committees of these conferences? For
1999, yes. Douglis is on the steering committee
for WIAPP, WMCSA, ASA/MA, SAINT. He is
program chair for USENIX USITS, which we cosponsor. What
was the most successful conference and least successful? N/A Publications Did
your TC sponsor any publications or host any special issues of a Computer
Society magazine? No. We did provide a column in the 11/98 TAF of
Computer magazine. And Douglis is now on
the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing Collaborative Efforts Was
your TC involved in any collaboration with other TCs, IEEE, groups,
organizations, or initiatives? We
cosponsored events with TCOS, Comsoc, USENIX going
forward in 1999. Volunteers Estimate
how many active volunteers were involved with your TC this year. 15 What
mechanisms did you use for recruiting and training new volunteers? Email. What
was your volunteer turnover rate: (e.g., out of 15 key volunteers, half
changed during the this year): Too
new to say. Do
you have scheduled election and appointment dates for revolving the volunteer
leadership? Not
officially, but I plan to hold an election for chair
in the fall of 1999. The new chair
can adjust
appointments accordingly. Awards Did
your TC present any awards to its volunteers? No. Does
your TC sponsor regular awards or student scholarships at particular
conferences or meetings every year? If so, please specify those awards or
scholarships, and the meetings where they are offered. Starting
in 1999, we are funding student awards
and travel at our conferences. TC Reviews Has
your TC participated in a formal or informal review by TAB? If so, please
give approximate date of review. We
underwent approval to go from TF to TC status in
11/98. Concerns Describe
problems or frustrations encountered as TC Chair. IEEE-CS
web hosting and email services are unacceptable. Staff Assistance What
services did you request of Computer Society staff? Support
in organizing SAINT, the new IPSJ/IEEE Symp.
on Applications and the Internet.
Anne Marie has
been exceedingly helpful, but we have had great
trouble finding a general chair, until 6/99.
Problem now
solved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FUTURE
PLANS (for the coming year) Please
answer the following questions by identifying the activities the TC shall
conduct that will benefit Computer Society members. Please differentiate
between on-going and new projects. Communication with Members How
will your TC communicate with its members in the coming year, i.e., through
newsletters, special correspondence from the chair or other officers, Web
page, email, etc. Web
page, email. Newsletter as part of web page if
we can get a webmaster with time to organize it. Conferences How
many conferences will your TC sponsor, co-sponsor, or cooperate with this
year? (please
enter a numerical response such as 5) 4 Are
there any new conferences or any existing conferences to be discontinued? New:
WIAPP, plus SAINT in 2001 currently underway Will
your TC be actively involved on any program committees, technical committees
or steering committees of these conferences? See
above. Publications Will
your TC sponsor any publications or host any special issues of a Computer
Society magazine? Not
planned. Collaborative Efforts Will
your TC be involved in any collaboration with other TCs, IEEE, groups,
organizations, or initiatives? WMCSA
- TCOS SAINT
- IPSJ USITS
- USENIX What
new activities, opportunities or directions do you see as providing further
viability and member benefit to your TC? SAINT
will help here a lot. TC Meetings How
many TC meetings are planned for this year and over what venue (at
conferences, teleconferences, video-conferences, etc.)? Please provide the
dates, times, and locations. Email
only. Volunteers What
mechanisms will you use to recruit and retain members and volunteers? Email. Staff Assistance What
services would you like to receive from staff? Better
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