USENIX

USENIX is an association that supports operating system research. 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 Corporation 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.[2] 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:.[3]

USENIX
USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association
Formation1975 (1975)[1]
HeadquartersBerkeley, California, United States
President
Carolyn Rowland
Websitewww.usenix.org
USENIX booth at Linuxcon 2016

USENIX was started as a technical organization. As commercial interest grew, a number of separate groups started in parallel, most notably the Software 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 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 LISA (formerly SAGE), the Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA).

USENIX's founding President was Lou Katz.

Open access

USENIX became the first computing association to provide open access to their conference and workshop papers in 2008.[4] Since 2011, they have included audio and video recordings of paper presentations in their open-access materials.

USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
USENIX 1984 Summer speakers having some fun

This award, also called the "Flame" award, has been presented since 1993.[5]

See also

References
  1. Salus, Peter H. (25 April 2008). "USENIX History : Thirtieth Anniversary, USENIX Association". USENIX. Archived from the original on 21 November 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-12. 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.
  2. Lehey, Greg (June 2003). "President's Column". AUUGN. AUUG, Inc. 24 (2): 3. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  3. ;login: The USENIX Magazine
  4. USENIX Supports Open Access
  5. "USENIX Flame Award". USENIX. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
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