USENIX

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The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Technical Association. It was founded in 1975 under the name "Unix Users Group," focusing primarily on the study and development of Unix and similar systems. The name change to USENIX was in reaction to a threatening letter from Western Electric. It has since grown into a respected organization among practitioners, developers, and researchers of computer operating systems more generally.

USENIX has a special interest group for system administrators, SAGE.

It sponsors several conferences and workshops each year, most notably the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, the USENIX Security Symposium, the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), and with SAGE, the Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA).

Contents 1 2006–2008 officers 2 2004–2006 officers 3 2002–2004 officers 4 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] 2006–2008 officers

The following people took office June 1, 2006:

• President: Mike Jones
• Vice President: Clem Cole
• Secretary: Alva Couch
• Treasurer: Theodore Ts'o
• Directors:
  • Matt Blaze
  • Rémy Evard
  • Niels Provos
  • Margo Seltzer

[edit] 2004–2006 officers

The following people took office June 27, 2004:

• President: Mike Jones
• Vice President: Clem Cole
• Secretary: Alva Couch
• Treasurer: Theodore Ts'o
• Directors:
  • Matt Blaze
  • Jon "maddog" Hall
  • Geoff Halprin
  • Marshall Kirk McKusick

[edit] 2002–2004 officers

• President: Marshall Kirk McKusick
• Vice President: Michael B. Jones
• Secretary: Peter Honeyman
• Treasurer: Lois Bennett
• Directors:
  • Tina Darmohray
  • John Gilmore
  • Jon "maddog" Hall
  • Avi Rubin

[edit] USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award

This award, also called the "Flame" award, is handed out annually since 1993.

• 2009 Gerald J. Popek
• 2008 Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• 2007 Peter Honeyman
• 2006 Radia Perlman
• 2005 Michael Stonebraker
• 2004 M. Douglas McIlroy
• 2003 Rick Adams
• 2002 James Gosling
• 2001 The GNU Project and all its contributors [1]
• 2000 W. Richard Stevens
• 1999 "The X Window System Community at Large"
• 1998 Tim Berners-Lee
• 1997 Brian W. Kernighan
• 1996 The Software Tools Project
• 1995 The Creation of USENET
• 1994 Networking Technologies
• 1993 Berkeley UNIX

[edit] See also

• SAGE (organization)
• LISA (conference)
• Marshall Kirk McKusick
• Unix

[edit] External links

• USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Organization
• SAGE: The USENIX SIG for Sysadmins