Congratulations to Dr Tristan Henderson who has been appointed to the ACM SIGCOMM Executive Committee, to serve as the SIGCOMM Education Director. SIGCOMM is the ACM’s Special Interest Group on communications and computer networks, and provides a forum for computer scientists, engineers, educators and students to discuss these topics. Amongst the SIG’s activities are the SIGCOMM conference, which is the premier venue for networking research. As Education Director Tristan will be responsible for the SIGCOMM education portal, soliciting summer schools, and other educational activities. In particular he hopes to use his experience in running the CRAWDAD network data archive to encourage educators to use real-world network data in their teaching efforts.

The School of Computer Science has a long history of teaching networking, with networks and distributed systems embedded into our subhonours (e.g. CS2003: The Internet and the Web: Concepts and Programming), honours (e.g. CS3102: Data Communications and Networks) and Masters (e.g. CS5023: Mobile and Wireless Networks) modules. This new appointment is timely given that the School is currently revamping and refreshing its networking curriculum.