Dear Joe, Let me join all the other TCCC members in thanking you for all your time and your effort to make the TCCC such a successful ComSoc committee.
Best wishes to the incomming new officers. Zygmunt. ==-=-=-=-== ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Dr. Zygmunt J. Haas http://people.ece.cornell.edu/haas Professor School of Electrical Engineering Wireless Networks Laboratory, Director http://wnl.ece.cornell.edu Cornell University tel: +1-607-255-3454 324 Frank Rhodes Hall fax: +1-607-255-9072 Ithaca, NY 14853 U.S.A e-mail: haas(at)ece(dot)cornell(dot)edu WNL web page: http://wnl.ece.cornell.edu ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Joe Touch wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:15:25 -0700 > From: Joe Touch <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Tccc] So long and thanks for all the fish... > > Hi, all, > > This is my final note to the list as TCCC Chair. I have been glad to > serve this community for the past four years. > > I'd like to recognize the hard work of everyone on this list, and the > elected officers I've been privileged to serve with: > Sonia Fahmy Vice Chair 2008-2010 > Xiaoming Fu Vice-Chair 2010-2012, Secretary 2008-2010 > Martin Reisslen Secretary 2010-2012 > > as well as the following volunteers: > Joerg Ott conf. coordinator/monitor > Patrick Seeling web coordinator > R Venkatesha Prasad ComSoc Standards Board liason > Fan Zhong Smart Grid ad-hoc committee rep. > Chunming Qiao & Kun Yang Cloud ad-hoc committee reps. > > Over the past four years, they and you together have enabled TCCC to: > - coordinated TCCC re-certification twice > completed recertification in 11/2009 > 2012 recertification is currently underway > - developed detailed meeting endorsement policies > substantially raising the bar for meeting endorsements > a subset of which the ComSoc has adopted > - documented our policies and procedures > - completely revised and updated our website > - posted results of our conf issues discussion online > - transferred the e-mail list to IEEE ComSoc servers (underway) > - organized four successful Computer Communications Workshops > - held TCCC meetings at ICC, Globecom, and Infocom conferences > - nominated chairs for symposia at ICC and Globecom > - nominated ComSoc Distinguished Lecturers and IEEE Experts > > As you may recall, we also all had a detailed discussion of conference > operations and participation in Dec 2009-Jan 2010, addressing: > presentations by non-authors > conference cost issues > pay-for-publication issues > participation by disadvantaged authors > This discussion resulted in changes to current ComSoc policy: > - all financially-sponsored ComSoc conferences now > require that all papers are presented by named authors > - most ComSoc conferences now use EDAS for publishing > CDROM/USB proceedings, resulting in a significant cost reduction > > I'd would like to thank everyone on this list again for your support and > participation over the past four years. As I have noted, I will continue > to support the ComSoc in my role as Director of Conference Operations, > to represent the entire ComSoc community and ensure the best possible > conference experience to authors and attendees alike. > > I also look forward to participating with you side-by-side in support of > the incoming officers, and to seeing you at the next ComSoc event. > > Joe - former TCCC Chair > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. > [email protected] > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc > > _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
