Student Travel Support for the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '03); Atlanta, Georgia; Nov. 4, 2003

2003年IEEE网络协议国际会议将于11月4日在乔治亚州亚特兰大举行。本次会议是网络领域的顶级会议之一，也是唯一一个专门关注通信协议方面的会议——通信协议是当今网络中最重要的主题之一。申请资金支持大约10名研究生（博士）参加ICNP，目的是增加未来研究人员与前沿研究人员接触和互动的机会。这种支持的目标“市场”是那些本来无法参加会议，但却能从中受益的学生——尤其是来自代表性不足群体的学生。更广泛的影响：获得奖项的学生将有机会在一个有利的环境中与许多其他研究人员见面和互动，并从与自己的研究相关的研究报告中受益，或者可能激励他们尝试新的方向。研究界和社会受益于学生数量的提高，每个人都受益于参加会议的参与者的多样性增加。

The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols will be held November 4 in Atlanta, Georgia. This conference is one of the top conferences in the networking field, and the only one that focuses specifically on aspects of communication protocols -- one of the most important topics in networking today. Funds are requested to support approximately 10 graduate (PhD) students to attend ICNP, with the goal of increasing opportunities for future researchers to make contacts and interact with those doing cutting-edge research. The target "market" for this support is students who would not otherwise be able to attend the conference, but who nevertheless should benefit from doing so--especially students from underrepresented groups.Broader Impact: students who receive awards will benefit from the opportunity to meet and interact with many other researchers in a favorable setting, and from seeing research presentations that relate to their own research, or may inspire them to try a new direction. The research community and society benefit from the resulting improvement of students in the pipeline, and everybody benefits from increased diversity of participants attending the conference.