Dr Tristan Henderson has been appointed to the Editorial Board of ACM Books, to serve as the Area Editor for Networking and Communications. ACM Books is a new publishing initiative from the ACM, focusing on “graduate-level textbooks, deep research monographs that provide an overview of established and emerging fields, practitioner-level professional books, and books devoted to the history and social impact of computing.” More information about the specific subject areas covered can be found at http://books.acm.org/subjects.

As Area Editor Tristan is responsible for soliciting and developing book proposals, and reviewing and arranging the external review of new proposals and manuscripts. If anyone is interested in writing a book in anything to do from routing to mobile networks to Internet science or to economics or legal aspects of the Internet and beyond, then please get in touch.