USENIXis an American501(c)(3) nonprofitmembership organizationbased inBerkeley, Californiaand founded in 1975 that supports advancedcomputing systems,operating system(OS), andcomputer networkingresearch.[2]It organizes several conferences in these fields.[2]
![]() USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association | |
Formation | 1975[1] |
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Headquarters | Berkeley, California,United States |
President | Amy Rich |
Website | www |
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History
editUSENIX was established in 1975 under the name "Unix Users Group," focusing primarily on the study and development of theUnixOS family and similar systems. In June 1977, a lawyer fromAT&T Corporationinformed the group that they could not use the word "Unix" in their name as it was a trademark ofWestern Electric(the manufacturing arm of AT&T until 1995), which led to the change of name to USENIX.[3]Since its founding, it has published a technicaljournaltitled;login:.[4]
USENIX was started as a technical organization. As commercial interest grew, a number of separate groups started in parallel, most notably theSoftware Tools Users Group(STUG), a technical adjunct for Unix-like tools and interface on non-Unix operating systems, and /usr/group, a commercially oriented user group.
USENIX's founding President was Lou Katz.
Conferences
editUSENIX hosts numerous conferences and symposia each year, including:
- USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation(OSDI) (was bi-annual till 2020)
- USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
- USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
- USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
- USENIX Annual Technical Conference(USENIX ATC) (co-located with OSDI since 2021)
- SREcon, a conference for engineers focused on site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale
- LISA, theLarge Installation System Administration Conference
- Enigma, a conference focused on practical privacy and security expertise and knowledge sharing in a welcoming and inclusive environment
Publications
editUSENIX publishes a magazine called;login:that appears four times a year.[5]From 2021, it has become an all-digital magazine and openly accessible.;login:content informs the community about practically relevant research, useful tools, and relevant events.
From 1988–1996, USENIX published the quarterly journalComputing Systems,about the theory and implementation of advanced computing systems in the UNIX tradition. It was published first by the University of California Press, then by the MIT Press. The issues have been scanned and are online.[6]
Open access
editUSENIX conferences becameopen accessin 2008.[7]Since 2011, they have provided audio and video recordings of paper presentations and conference talks in their open-access materials, free of charge.
USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
editThis award, also called the "Flame" award, has been presented since 1993.[8]
- 2023Steven M. Bellovin,Matt Blaze,andSusan Landau
- 2022Warren Toomey
- 2021 (no award)
- 2020Chet Ramey
- 2019Margo Seltzer
- 2018Eddie Kohler
- 2014Thomas E. Anderson
- 2012John Mashey
- 2011Dan Geer
- 2010Ward Cunningham
- 2009Gerald J. Popek
- 2008Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- 2007Peter Honeyman
- 2006Radia Perlman
- 2005Michael Stonebraker
- 2004M. Douglas McIlroy
- 2003Rick Adams
- 2002James Gosling
- 2001 TheGNU Projectandall its contributors
- 2000W. Richard Stevens
- 1999 "TheX Window SystemCommunity at Large "
- 1998Tim Berners-Lee
- 1997Brian W. Kernighan
- 1996The Software Tools Users Group(Dennis E. Hall,Deborah Scherrer,Joe Sventek)
- 1995 The Creation ofUSENETbyJim Ellis,Steven M. Bellovin,andTom Truscott
- 1994 Networking Technologies
- 1993Berkeley UNIX
See also
edit- AUUG
- LISA (conference)
- Marshall Kirk McKusick
- LISA SIG: FormerlySAGE (organization)
- Unix
References
edit- ^Salus, Peter H.(25 April 2008)."USENIX History: Thirtieth Anniversary, USENIX Association".USENIX.Archivedfrom the original on 21 November 2017.Retrieved2020-04-12.
June 18, 1975. CUNY in Manhattan. Mel Ferentz runs the first USENIX conference. Of course, it wasn't called USENIX then, it was a UNIX users' group, until the lawyers at AT&T; got tough about that (tm). And it wasn't the first meeting, either, as Lou Katz had run a small meeting in a conference room at Columbia in May 1974. But there were "about 40 people from 20 institutions" at the 1975 meeting.
- ^ab"About USENIX".USENIX.2017-04-21.Retrieved2022-05-21.
- ^Lehey, Greg (June 2003)."President's Column".AUUGN.24(2). AUUG, Inc.: 3.RetrievedJune 3,2010.
- ^;login: The USENIX Magazine
- ^"USENIX;login: | The Advanced Computing Systems Association".www.usenix.org.Retrieved2021-07-13.
- ^Computing systems: A quarterly publication of the USENIX Association,at usenix.org
- ^USENIX Supports Open Access
- ^"USENIX Flame Award".USENIX. 6 December 2011.Retrieved2018-12-22.