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University of Massachusetts Professor Honored for Contributions to Computer Networking

AScribe Newswire (08/13/08)

ACM's Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) has named University of Massachusetts-Amherst professor Don Towsley the winner of its highest honor. ACM says that Towsley's contributions to modeling, analyzing, and controlling communication networks has influenced an era of networking research and practice built upon a more scientific foundation. His work has helped give computer scientists and engineers a better understanding of computer networks, network protocols, and networked applications. The distinguished professor of computer science collaborated with experts in other scientific disciplines for many of his nearly 200 journal papers. Towsley is a fellow of ACM and IEEE, and is currently the editor-in-chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He is the winner of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award from ACM's Special Interest Groups on Measurement and Evaluation. Towsley will receive the award at the upcoming ACM SIGCOMM annual conference in Seattle, Wash., and he is also scheduled to deliver the keynote address on Aug. 19.

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