William R. Bennett Award
Sally
Floyd received the B.A. degree in Sociology, with a minor
in Mathematics, from the University of California at Berkeley
in 1971. From 1975 to 1982 she worked on computer systems
for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). She received the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley
in 1987 and 1989, respectively, in computer science.
From May
1990 to January 1999, she was a member of the Network Research
Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since February
1999, she has been at the Center for Internet Research at
the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). Her research
interests include congestion control in computer networks
and the Analysis of network dynamics.
Vern Paxson is a senior scientist with the ICSI Center
for Internet Research (ICIR) at the International Computer
Science Institute in Berkeley, and also a staff computer scientist
at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
His research
focuses on Internet measurement, network intrusion detection,
and large-scale Internet attacks. He serves on the editorial
board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, chairs the Internet
Research Task Force, and has been active in the Internet Engineering
Task Force, chairing working groups on performance metrics,
TCP implementation, and endpoint congestion management, as
well as serving on the Internet Engineering Steering Group
as an area director for Transport.
He has
participated in numerous program committees, including ACM
SIGCOMM, USENIX, USENIX Security, and the IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy; co-chairs the 2002 ACM SIGCOMM networking
conference; and is a member of the steering committee for
the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop. He received
his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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