Student Travel Support for the ACM MobiCom 2014 Conference

ACM MobiCom大会是移动计算和无线网络领域领先的国际会议。它邀请从网络、无线和移动系统、算法和应用的角度来解决移动计算领域的挑战的研究贡献。本次会议以高质量的技术项目为特色，在约250份提交的论文中，接受率约为10%。它有一个单轨会议，为个人和小团体提供了重要的机会，促进不同参与者之间的技术和社会互动。MobiCom也是促进国际各研究团体之间交流的国际会议。该奖项将提供20个或更多的旅行资助，每人最高限额为1000美元，以帮助增加在美国的学生在会议上的代表性和参与度。通过为研究生，特别是那些来自弱势群体的研究生，创造参加高质量会议的新机会，该奖项将使学生有机会与世界一流的研究人员互动，激励他们尝试新的研究方向，提供指导机会，以及寻求实习和博士后职位的机会，这将有助于学生在他们的研究生涯中取得进步。

ACM MobiCom conference is the leading international conference on mobile computing and wireless networking. It invites research contributions addressing the challenges in the area of mobile computing, from the perspective of networks, wireless and mobile systems, algorithms, and applications. The conference features a high-quality technical program, with an acceptance rate of around 10% out of around 250 submissions. It has a single-track session, which offers significant opportunities for individual and small groups that foster technical and social interactions among a diverse set of participants. MobiCom is also an international conference that stimulates exchanges between various international research communities. This award will help increase the representation and participation of United States-based students at the conference by providing 20 or more travel grants limited to a maximum of $1000 each. By creating new opportunities for graduate students, especially those from under-represented groups, to attend a high-quality conference, this award will benefit the students by giving them an opportunity to interact with world-class researchers, inspire them to try new research directions, providing mentoring opportunities, as well as the chance to seek out internships and post-doctoral positions which will help the students advance in their research career.