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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 (conference)).
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:
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Matt Blaze
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Rémy Evard
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Niels Provos
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Margo Seltzer
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:
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Matt Blaze
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Jon "maddog" Hall
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Geoff Halprin
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Marshall Kirk McKusick
2002–2004 officers
★ President:
Marshall Kirk McKusick
★ Vice President:
Michael B. Jones
★ Secretary:
Peter Honeyman
★ Treasurer:
Lois Bennett
★ Directors:
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Tina Darmohray
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John Gilmore
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Jon "maddog" Hall
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Avi Rubin
USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
This award, also called the "Flame" award, is handed out annually since 1993.
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2007 Peter Honeyman
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2006 Radia Perlman
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2005 Michael Stonebraker
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2004 M. Douglas McIlroy
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2003 Rick Adams
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2002 James Gosling
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2001 The
GNU Project and all its contributors
[1]
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2000 W. Richard Stevens
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1999 "The
X Window System Community at Large"
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1998 Tim Berners-Lee
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1997 Brian W. Kernighan
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1996 The Software Tools Project
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1995 The Creation of USENET
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1994 Networking Technologies
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1993 Berkeley UNIX
See also
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SAGE (organization)
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LISA (conference)
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Marshall Kirk McKusick
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Unix
External links
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USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Organization
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SAGE: The USENIX SIG for Sysadmins