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		Major Awards   Two major awards were presented at the Gala dinner of IIT’05: Cisco Research Excellence Award The Cisco award is a competitive award that recognizes research that is applied to the needs of the region. The award was presented by Dr. Mark De Simone, Vice President, Middle East and Africa (MEA), Cisco Systems Inc., to Dr Hazem El Khatib in recognition of his contribution in the field of Telematics. Dr El Khatib is leading a research team in UAE University's College of Information Technology to develop new practical embedded applications for mobile devices and develop portals for operation control centers for the purpose of providing Location Based Services. IIT'05 Distinguished Research Innovation Award The 'Distinguished Research Innovation Award' was established by the conference's organizing committee to recognize world-class eminent scholars whose research achievements are helping to shape the future of Information Technology. This year, the conference awarded the prestigious Distinguished Research Innovation Award to Dr Krishna Nathan, IBM Vice President and Director of the Zurich Research Laboratory, which is IBM's main research center in Europe. The Zurich Laboratory is associated with several Nobel prizes since the lab's founding in 1956. Major breakthroughs such as the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, the Token Ring Network, and secure electronic transactions, currently supported by all major credit card companies, are testimonials to the Lab's leadership. IIT'05 Best Paper Award The best paper award was given to: Abdoul-Kader Harouna Souley and Soumaya Cherkaoui For their paper titled "Realistic Urban Scenarios Simulation for Ad Hoc Networks" Realistic simulation scenarios are critical to correctly assess the performance of mobile ad hoc networks. This paper presents a tool to generate realistic mobility traces for MANET simulations. A new mobility module called AMADEOS was developed as an extension for the CANUMobisim framework [1]. AMADEOS makes it easy and fast to automatically generate realistic mobility. It allows editing spatial environments with polygonal obstacles to be used within simulations. It also allows visualizing an animation of the generated mobility traces. To model mobility for simulation environments, a new mobility model was created that takes into account obstacles. A new propagation model based on ray tracing was also implemented as part of AMADEOS.