William R. Bennett Award
Chung Kei Wong received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, the M.Phil. degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. From 1999-2000, he was a Research Staff Member at HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Inktomi Corporation, Foster City, CA. His research interests include network security and multicast communication.
Mohamed G. Gouda received his first B. Sc. in Engineering and his second in Mathematics from Cairo University. Later, he obtained M. A. in Mathematics from York University and Masters and Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He worked for the Honeywell Corporate Technology Center in Minneapolis 1977-1980. In 1980, he joined the University of Texas at Austin where he currently holds the Mike A. Myers Centennial Professorship in Computer Sciences.
His research areas are distributed and concurrent computing and network protocols. He has published over seventy-five journal papers, and over one hundred and twenty five conference papers. Prof. Gouda was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Springer-Verlag journal Distributed Computing 1985-1989. He served on the editorial board of Information Sciences 1996-1999, and he is currently on the editorial boards of Distributed Computing and the Journal of High Speed Networks.
He was the program committee chairman of ACM SIGCOMM Symposium in 1989. He was the first program committee chairman of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols in 1993. He was the first program committee chairman of IEEE Symposium on Advances in Computers and Communications, which was held in Egypt in 1995.
Prof. Gouda is the author of the textbook "Elements of Network Protocol Design", published by John-Wiley & Sons in 1998. This is the first ever textbook where network protocols are presented in abstract and formal setting. Currently, he is writing the textbook "Elements of Secure Network Protocols". Prof. Gouda is the 1993 winner of the Kuwait Award in Basic Sciences. He also won an IBM Partnership Award for the year 2000 - 2001.
Simon S. Lam received the BSEE degree with Distinction from Washington State University, Pullman, in 1969, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1970 and 1974, respectively.
He worked for the ARPA Network Project at UCLA from 1971 to 1974. He was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York from 1974 to 1977. Since 1977, he has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Professor of Computer Sciences. He holds two anonymously endowed professorships, and served as Department Chair from 1992 to 1994. His research interests include network protocol design, performance analysis, distributed multimedia, quality of service guarantees, and Internet security.
He served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 1995 to 1999. He has also served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE, Computer Networks, and Performance Evaluation. He is a founding Steering Committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols.
Dr. Lam received the 1975 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
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