The Mark Weiser Award 2021
The winner of the 2021 SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award is Michael Freedman.
Month: October 2021
The Dennis M. Ritchie Thesis Award 2021
The Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award was created in 2013 by ACM SIGOPS to recognize research in software systems and to encourage the creativity that Dennis Ritchie embodied, providing a reminder of Ritchie’s legacy and what a difference one person can make in the field of software systems research. The Award committee for 2021 … Read more
The Hall of Fame Award 2021
The 2021 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award goes to Teemu Koponen, Martin Casado, Natasha Gude, Jeremy Stribling, Leon Poutievski, Min Zhu, Rajiv Ramanathan, Yuichiro Iwata, Hiroaki Inoue, Takayuki Hama, and Scott Shenker for their paper Onix: A Distributed Control Platform for Large-scale Production Networks.
The Return of the Unix Shell
With about half a century of life, the Unix shell is pervasive and entrenched in our computing infrastructure—with recent virtualization and containerization trends only propelling its use. A fresh surge of academic research highlights show potential for tackling long-standing open problems that are central to the shell and enable further progress. A recent panel discussion … Read more