News & Noteworthy
Nominations for the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award
If your favorite operating system paper was published between 1 October 2008 and 30 September 2010, you can nominate it for the 2019 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award. Nominations must be received on or prior to June 5, 2019, in any timezone. You may address questions and...
read moreASPLOS Influential Paper 2019 Winner
Congratulations to: Emery D. Berger, Kathryn S. McKinley, Robert D. Blumofe, and Paul R. Wilson for winning this years ASPLOS Influential Paper Award for their paper Hoard: A Scalable Memory Allocator for Multithreaded Applications published in ASPLOS IX: Proceedings...
read moreSIGOPS Board elections
Are you ready for the upcoming SIGOPS board election? Please note that anyone who wants to vote in the April 30th election has to be an active member of SIGOPS on or before April 15th (the eligible voter cut-off date).
read moreEurosys ’19 Proceedings
The Eurosys 2019 proceedings are now available online at: https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/eurosys/2019/toc.html
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SOSP 2019 submission site is open
We are now ready to receive your submissions for SOSP 2019 . Please view the complete Call for Papers and our website for details, including a list of topics of interest and submission instructions. We look forward to receiving your submissions!
read moreNSF Workshop Report on Interdisciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems
The community of computer systems researchers is working on an unprecedentedly broad range of topics, ranging from the small (energy-independent embedded devices) to the large (brain-scale deep learning), simultaneously addressing technology discontinuities (End of...
read moreSOSP 2019
The 27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles seeks to present exciting, innovative research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of computer systems software.
read moreHotOS 2019
The 17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems will bring together researchers and practitioners in computer systems to engage in a lively discussion on the principles and practices of building systems software. Continuing the HotOS tradition, participants will present new ideas and debate future research agendas in systems research.
read moreRecent Awards
The Mark Weiser Award 2018
The Mark Weiser Award was created in 2001 by ACM SIGOPS, to be given to an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in operating systems research. The award is named in honor of Mark Weiser, a computing visionary recognized for his...
read more2018 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
The 2018 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing goes to Bowen Alpern and Fred B. Schneider for their paper: Defining liveness, published in Information Processing Letters 21(4), October 1985.
read moreASPLOS Most Influential Paper Award 2018
The ASPLOS Most Influential Paper Award for 2018 goes to the ASPLOS 2000 paper: OceanStore: an architecture for global-scale persistent storage. The authors are John Kubiatowicz, David Bindel, Yan Chen, Steven Czerwinski, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Sean Rhea, Hakim Weatherspoon, Chris Wells, and Ben Zhao
read moreSOSP Student Research Competition 2017 Winners
SOSP 2017 hosted its first ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). Congratulations to Jon Gjengset, Brandon Zhang, Tej Chajed, Gefei Zuo, Anish Athalye, and Levente Kurus.
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