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<p>Hi, all,</p>
<p>The following was just announced on the Sigcomm list, FYI:</p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4. We are sad to report the passing away of longtime ACM SIGCOMM member and enthusiastic volunteer, Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan on May 23 after a lengthy and disabling illness. She had been a faculty member in the Computer Sciences department at the University of Texas, Austin, for more than two decades and helped organize the SIGCOMM conference at Austin in 1989. Her obituary can be found here: </span><a
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Importantly, one of her main passions was Internet (and SIGCOMM) history: </span><a
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<p>I'm sad to hear that Chris has passed, but also wanted to note
some additional ways in which Chris served the community that was
not included in the tribute:</p>
As far as I can tell, Chris created the role of ACM SIGCOMM
Conference Coordinator, which involved both overseeing the
organization of the SIGCOMM annual conference, but also managing
request for "in-cooperation" status. Although I'm not sure when she
started, she served through 2003, at which time the role of
Conference Coordinator Emeritus was created for her to help hand-off
the role (to me, FWIW). She served as SIG Secretary/Treasurer
1991-1995, and organized the 1999 panel of past SIGCOMM Award
recipients on its 10th anniversary. I was also honored to host her
as a USC/ISI Postel Center Visiting Research Scholar in 2004, to
investigate our archives for her research in Internet history.<br>
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FYI. And if you'll pardon the personal note, she is missed and
remembered fondly.<br>
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Joe<br>
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