USENIX
USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association
Formation	1975
Headquarters	Berkeley, CA
President	Clem Cole
Website	www.usenix.org

The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. It was founded in 1975 under the name "Unix Users Group," focusing primarily on the study and development of Unix and similar systems. In June 1977, a lawyer from AT&T informed the group that they could not use the word UNIX as it was a trademark of Western Electric (the manufacturing arm of AT&T until 1995), which led to the change of name to USENIX.^[1] It has since grown into a respected organization among practitioners, developers, and researchers of computer operating systems more generally. Since its founding, it has published a technical journal entitled ;login:.^[2]

USENIX was started as a technical organization. As commercial interest grew, a number of separate groups started in parallel, most notably STUG, the Software Tools Users Group, a technical adjunct for Unix-like tools and interface on non-Unix operating systems, and /usr/group a commercially oriented user group.

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 Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 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).

USENIX's founding President was Lou Katz.

1 2010–12 officers
2 2008–10 officers
3 2006–08 officers
4 2004–06 officers
5 2002–04 officers
6 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

2010–12 officers [link]

The following people took office June 21, 2010:

President: Clem Cole
Vice President: Margo Seltzer
Secretary: Alva Couch
Treasurer: Brian Noble
Directors:
- John Arrasjid
- David Blank-Edelman
- Matt Blaze
- Niels Provos

2008–10 officers [link]

The following people took office June 25, 2008:

President: Clem Cole
Vice President: Margo Seltzer
Secretary: Alva Couch
Treasurer: Brian Noble
Directors:
- Matt Blaze
- Rémy Evard
- Niels Provos
- Gerald Carter

2006–08 officers [link]

The following people took office June 1, 2006:

President: Mike Jones
Vice President: Clem Cole
Secretary: Alva Couch
Treasurer: Theodore Ts'o
Directors:

2004–06 officers [link]

The following people took office June 27, 2004:

President: Mike Jones
Vice President: Clem Cole
Secretary: Alva Couch
Treasurer: Theodore Ts'o
Directors:

2002–04 officers [link]

USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award [link]

USENIX 1984 Summer speakers having some fun. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

This award, also called the "Flame" award, is handed out annually since 1993 ^[3] .

2011 Dan Geer
2010 Ward Cunningham
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
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 by Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott
1994 Networking Technologies
1993 Berkeley UNIX

References [link]

^ Lehey, Greg (June 2003). "President's Column". AUUGN (AUUG, Inc.) 24 (2): 3. https://books.google.com/books?id=SjCsT2rw4eEC. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
^ ;login: The USENIX Magazine
^ "USENIX Flame Award". USENIX. https://www.usenix.org/about/flame.html. Retrieved July 19, 2011.

External links [link]

https://wn.com/USENIX

USENIX Annual Technical Conference

The USENIX Annual Technical Conference is a conference of computing professions sponsored by the USENIX association. The conference includes computing tutorials, and a single track technical session for presenting refereed research papers, SIG meetings, and BoFs.

There have been several notable announcements and talks at USENIX. In 1995, James Gosling announced "Oak", which was to become the Java Programming Language. John Ousterhout first presented TCL here, and Usenet was announced here.

It is considered one of the most prestigious operating systems venues and has an 'A' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences (ERA).