A Chronological History of SIGOPS: its Officers, Conferences, and Awards
1965
- Special Interest Committee on Time-Sharing (SICTIME) founded by Henriette Avram.
- Arthur M. Rosenberg, Scientific Data Systems, becomes first SIGTIME (i.e. later SIGOPS) Chairman
1967
- First Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 1-4, 1967 in Gatlinburg, TN at the Mountain View Hotel.
- Maurice V. Wilkes receives ACM Turing Award
1968
- Peter J. Denning, Princeton University, appointed Editor of quarterly SIGTIME newsletter.
- SIGTIME becomes SIGOPS, the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, after ACM approval at the Fall Joint Computer Conference.
1969
- SIGOPS starts the year with about 400 members and reaches nearly 1000 members by year’s end.
- Peter J. Denning appointed Vice-Chairman of SIGOPS.
- New SIGOPS officers are appointed on July 1 for a two-year period:
Chairman: Peter J. Denning, Princeton University
Vice Chairman: William Konigsford, Virtual Time Sharing, Inc.
Secretary-Treasurer: Marc A. Auslander, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Newsletter Editor: Michael M. Gold, University of Pittsburg - SIGTIME Bulletin becomes SIGOPS Bulletin effective February 1969; newsletter changed from SIGOPS Bulletin to Operating Systems Review, effective with the November issue (volume 3, no. 4).
- Workshop on Systems Reliability and Recovery held July 14-15 in Pacific Palisades, CA. Chair: Algirdis Avizieznis, UCLA.
- Second Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 20-22 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
General chair: Peter Denning, Princeton University.
Program chairs: Edward G. Coffman and Stanley M. Altman, Princeton University.
1970
- Ted J. Jardine, Computer Sciences Corp, takes over as newsletter Editor.
- Marc Auslander, IBM Research, takes over as Chairman for Peter Denning (who is promoted to ACM SIG/SIC Chairman).
- J. Richard Swenson, University of Toronto, takes over as OSR Editor.
- SIGOPS ends the year with over 1,800 members, second in size only to SIGPLAN.
1971
- Edsger W. Dijkstra receives ACM Turing Award
- SIGOPS sponsored Workshop on System Performance Evaluation held at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 5-7.
Program Coordinator: Robert P. Goldberg, MIT.
Co-Chairman: Robert M. Graham, U. C. Berkeley, and Ugo Gagliardi, Harvard University. - Third Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 18-20 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
General Chair: Edward J. McCluskey, Stanford University.
Program Chairs: Thomas Bredt, Stanford University, and Butler Lampson, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
1972
- New SIGOPS officers appointed:
Chairman: R. Stockton Gaines, Institute for Defense Analyses
Vice Chairman: Butler Lampson, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Secretary-Treasurer: Marc Auslander, IBM Research Center
Newsletter Editor: William M. Waite, University of Colorado
1973
- Workshop on Virtual Computer Systems held at Harvard University, March 26-27.
Chair: Barbara Solomon, Honeywell Information Systems - SIGPLAN/SIGOPS Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems held in Savannah, Georgia, on April 9-12.
Chair: Robert M. Graham, The City College - Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 15-17 in Yorktown Heights, New York.
General Chairs: Herbert Schorr and Alan Perlis
Program Chairs: Peter Weiner, Yale University, and Don Frazer, IBM Research
1974
- William C. Lynch, Case Western Reserve University, takes over as Secretary-Treasurer.
1975
- J. C. Browne, University of Texas, takes over as Chairman.
- SIGCOMM/SIGOPS Workshop on Interprocess Communications held in March in Santa Monica, CA.
Chairs: Wesley W. Chu, Vinton Cerf, T. C. Chen, R. Stockton Gains, and Butler Lampson - Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held November 19-21 in Austin, Texas.
General Chair: J. C. Browne, University of Texas
Program Chairs: J. C. Browne, University of Texas, and Juan Rodrigues-Rosell, IBM Research
1976
1977
- New officers appointed:
Chairman: Robert S. Fabry, University of California, Berkeley
Vice Chairman: Peter R. Christy, Digital Equipment Corporation
Secretary-Treasurer: Dorothy Denning, Purdue University
William Waite remains the newsletter editor. - ACM Conference on Language Design for Reliable Software held in April.
- Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held November 16-18 at Purdue University.
General Chair: Saul Rosen
Program Chair: Peter J. Denning
1978
- As of March 31, SIGOPS continues to be the second largest SIG (behind SIGPLAN) with 6326 members.
SIGOPS dues are increased from $3 to $5 per year. - The ACM Council decrees that all SIG officers should be elected for two-year terms beginning July 1 of odd numbered years. SIGOPS establishes a nominating committee in preparation for its first election and adopts new bylaws.
1979
- Seventh Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held on December 10-12 at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA.
General Chair: Michael D. Schroeder, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Program Chair: Anita K. Jones, Carnegie Mellon University - SIGOPS-SIGSOFT Anecdotal History of Computer Systems held in conjunction with SOSP.
Chair: Peter G. Neumann, SRI International
1980
- New officers are elected, rather than appointed, after the elections are delayed by a year:
Chairman: Dorothy E. Denning, Purdue University
Vice Chairman: David Redell, Xerox
Secretary-Treasurer: Gregory Andrews, University of Arizona
Membership surpasses 7,000.
Dues increased from $5 to $8 per year. - SIGOPS and SIGPLAN Workshop on Fundamental Issues of Distributed Computing held December 15-17 in Fallbrook, CA.
Chair: Barbara Liskov, MIT
1981
- Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) proposed, rather than Transactions on Operating Systems (TOPS), and approved by ACM Publications Planning Committee.
- Eighth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 13-16 at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA.
General Chair: John Howard, IBM San Jose
Program Chair: David P. Reed, MIT
1982
- SIGARCH, SIGOPS, and SIGPLAN Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 1-3 in Palo Alto, CA.
General Chair: Lloyd Dickman, Digital Equipment Corporation
Program Chair: David R. Ditzel, Bell Laboratories - SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, and SIGOPS Symposium on Computer Network Performance held April 13-14 in College Park, MD.
General Chair: David Wood, MITRE
Program Chairs: Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, and David Ault, MITRE - SIGACT and SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 18-20 in Ottawa, Canada.
Conference Chair: Robert Probert, University of Ottawa
Program Chair: Michael Fisher, Yale University
1983
- New officers are elected:
Chairman: Alan Jay Smith, University of California, Berkeley
Vice Chairman: Liba Svobodova, IBM Research
Secretary-Treasurer: Kevin Kahn, Intel - Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth L. Thompson receive ACM Turing Award
- First issue of Transactions on Computer Systems is published with Anita K. Jones as Editor-in-Chief
- Second Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 17-19 in Montreal, Canada.
Conference Chair: Robert Probert, University of Ottawa
Program Chair: Nancy Lynch, MIT - Ninth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 10-13 in Bretton Woods, NH.
General Chair: Jerry Saltzer, MIT
Program Chairs: Roy Levin, Xerox PARC, and David Redell, Xerox
1984
- Third Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 27-29 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Conference Chair: Tiko Kameda, Simon Fraser University
Program Chair: Jayadev Misra, University of Texas
1985
- New officers elected (or re-elected):
Chairman: Alan Jay Smith, University of California, Berkeley
Vice Chairman: Liba Svobodova, IBM Zurich Research
Secretary-Treasurer: Sten Andler, IBM San Jose Research - Workshop on Operating Systems in Computer Networks held January 28-30 in Ruschlikon, Switzerland.
Chair: Liba Svodobova, IBM Research - Fourth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 5-7 in Minaki, Ontario, Canada.
Conference Chair: Mike Malcom, University of Waterloo
Program Chair: Ray Strong, IBM San Jose - Tenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 1-4 at Rosario Resort, Orcas Island, Washington.
General Chair: Forest Baskett, Digital Equipment Corporation
Program Chairs: Andrew Birrell, DEC, and David Cheriton, Stanford University - Workshop on Accommodating Heterogeneity held December 4-6 in conjunction with SOSP.
Chair: Ed Lazowska, University of Washington
1986
- William N. Joy receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
- Fifth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 11-13 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Conference Chair: Ernest Chang, Alberta Research Council
Program Chair: Joseph Halpern, IBM Almaden - Second European Workshop on “Making Distributed Systems Work” held September 8-10 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Chair: Sape Mullender, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
1987
- New officers elected:
Chairman: Roy Levin, DEC SRC
Vice Chairman: Sape Mullender, CWI
Secretary-Treasurer: Hank Levy, University of Washington
Membership dues were raised from $8 to $10 per year. - John K. Ousterhout receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
- Sixth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 10-12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Conference Chair: David Kirkpatrick, University of British Columbia
Program Chair: Fred B. Schneider, Cornell University - Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 5-8 in Palo Alto, CA.
General Chair: Martin Freeman, Stanford University
Program Chair: Randy H. Katz, University of California, Berkeley - Eleventh Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held November 9-11 in Austin, TX.
General Chair: Les Belady, MCC Corporation
Program Chair: Alfred Spector, Carnegie Mellon University
1988
- SIGOPS and SIGPLAN Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging held May 5-6 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Chair: Bart Miller, University of Wisconsin - Seventh Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 15-17 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Conference Chair: Eshrat Arjomandi, York University
Program Chair: Danny Dolev, IBM Almaden Research - Third European Workshop on “Autonomy or Interdependence in Distributed Systems” held September 19-21 in Cambridge, England.
Chair: Roger Needham, Cambridge University
1989
- Peter J. Denning receives ACM Distinguished Service Award
- Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held April 3-6 in Boston, MA.
General Chair: Joel Elmer, DEC
Program Chair: John Hennessy, Stanford University - Eighth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 14-16 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Conference Chair: Piotr Rudnicki, University of Alberta
Program Chair: Michael Merritt, AT&T Bell Labs - Twelfth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 3-6 at The Wigwam in Litchfield Park, AZ.
General Chair: Greg Andrews, University of Arizona
Program Chair: John Ousterhout, University of California, Berkeley
1990
- Ninth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 22-24 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Conference Chair: Gregor v. Bockmann, Universite de Montreal
Program Chair: Cynthia Dwork, MIT - Fourth European Workshop on “Fault Tolerance Support in Distributed Systems” held September 3-5 in Bologna, Italy.
Chair: Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna - SIGOPS continues to have over 7000 members.
1991
- New officers elected:
Chairman: Henry M. Levy, University of Washington
Vice Chairman: Sape J. Mullender, University of Twente
Secretary-Treasurer: Anita Borg, DEC/WRL - Membership dues raised from $10 to $15 per year to more accurately reflect the actual cost of printing and shipping conference proceedings to members.
- Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held April 8-11 in Palo Alto, CA.
General Chair: Bob Rau, HP Labs
Program Chair: Dave Patterson, University of California, Berkeley - SIGPLAN and SIGOPS Second Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging held May 20-21 in Santa Cruz, CA.
Chairs: Charlie McDowell, U. C. Santa Cruz, and Bart Miller, University of Wisconsin - Tenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 19-21 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Conference Chair: Luigi Logrippo, University of Ottawa
Program Chair: Richard Ladner, University of Washington - Thirteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 13-16 at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, CA.
General Chair: Jim Mitchell, Sun
Program Chair: Ed Lazowska, University of Washington
1992
- Butler W. Lampson receives ACM Turing Award
- Eleventh Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 10-12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Conference Chair: Norm Hutchinson, University of British Columbia
Program Chair: Maurice Herlihy, DEC Cambridge Research - Fifth European Workshop on “Models and Paradigms for Distributed Systems Structuring” held September 21-23 in Le Mont Saint-Michel, France.
Chairs: Jean-Pierre Banatre, IRISA-INRIA, and Sacha Krakowiak, IMAG - Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 12-15 in Boston, MA.
General Chair: Barry Flahive, HP
Program Chair: Hank Levy, University of Washington
1993
- Carla Ellis, Duke University, is appointed Secretary-Treasurer (replacing Anita Borg). Other officers agree to stay for another two-year term.
- Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging held May 17-18 in San Diego, CA.
Chairs: Charlie McDowell, U. C. Santa Cruz, and Bart Miller, University of Wisconsin - Twelfth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) held August 15-18 in Ithaca, NY.
Conference Chair: James Anderson, University of Maryland
Program Chair: Sam Toueg, Cornell University - Fourteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 5-8 in Asheville, NC.
General Chair: Andrew Black, DEC Cambridge Research
Program Chair: Barbara Liskov, MIT
1994
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum receives ACM Karl V. Karkstrom Outstanding Educator Award
- Thirteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 14-17 in Los Angeles, CA.
Conference Chair: James Anderson, University of North Carolina
Program Chair: David Peleg, Weismann Institute and IBM T.J. Watson Research - Sixth European Workshop on “Matching Operating Systems to Application Needs” held September 14-16 in Wadern, Germany.
General Chair: Jurgen Nehmer, Universitat Kaiserslautern
Program Chair: Marc Shapiro, INRIA - Sixth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 5-7 in San Jose, CA.
General Chair: Forest Baskett, Silicon Graphics
Program Chair: Doug Clark, Princeton University - USENIX, IEEE, and SIGOPS sponsor First Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) held November 14-17 in Monterey, CA.
Program Chair: Jay Lepreau, University of Utah
1995
- New officers elected:
Chairman: Carla Ellis, Duke University
Vice Chairman: Marc Shapiro, INRIA
Secretary-Treasurer: Paul Leach, Microsoft - Fourteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 20-23 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Conference Chair: James Anderson, University of North Carolina
Program Chair: Vassos Hadzilacos, University of Toronto - Fifteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 3-6 at Cooper Mountain Resort, CO.
General Chair: John Bennett, Rice University
Program Chair: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC
1996
- Peter J. Denning receives ACM Karl V. Karkstrom Outstanding Educator Award
- Fifteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held May 23-26 in Philadelphia, PA.
Conference Chair: James E. Burns, Bellcore
Program Chair: Yoram Moses, Weizmann Institute - SIGACT, SIGARCH, and SIGOPS sponsor Fourth Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS) held May 27 in Philadelphia, PA.
General Chairs: David Kotz, Dartmouth College, Thomas H. Cormen, Dartmouth College, and Ravi Jain, Bellcore
Program Chair: Alok Choudhary, Syracuse University - Seventh European Workshop on “Systems Support for Worldwide Applications” held September 9-11 in Connemara, Ireland.
General Chair: Andrew Herbert, ANSA
Program Chair: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Vrije University - Seventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 1-5 in Cambridge, MA.
General Chair: Bill Dally, MIT
Program Chair: Susan Eggers, University of Washington - Second Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) held October 28-31 in Seattle, WA.
Program Chairs: Karin Petersen, Xerox PARC, and Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University
1997
- Mary Baker, Stanford University, is appointed to the new position of SIGOPS Information Director.
- Sixteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 21-24 in Santa Barbara, CA.
Conference Chair: James E. Burns, Bellcore
Program Chair: Hagit Attiya, Technion - Sixteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 5-8 in Saint Malo, France.
General Chair: Michel Banatre, IRISA/INRIA
Program Chair: Hank Levy, University of Washington - Fifth Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS) held November 17 in San Jose, CA
General Chairs: Thomas H. Cormen, Dartmouth College, and Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University
Program Chair: David Kotz, Dartmouth College - SIGOPS membership has fallen to 4335 members.
1998
- Jim Gray receives ACM Turing Award
- Seventeenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held June 28-July 2 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Conference Chair: Brian Coan, Bellcore
Program Chair: Yehuda Afek, Tel-Aviv University - Eighth European Workshop on “Support for Composing Distributed Applications” held September 7-10 in Sintra, Portugal.
General Chair: Paulo Guedes, INESC
Program Chair: Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge - Eighth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 3-7 in San Jose, CA.
General Chair: Dileep Bhandarkar, Intel
Program Chair: Anant Agarwal, MIT
1999
- Fred Brooks receives ACM Turing Award
- New officers elected:
Chairman: William E. Weihl, Compaq SRC
Vice Chairman: Valerie Issarny, INRIA
Secretary-Treasurer: David Kotz, Dartmouth College - Anita Borg receives ACM Distinguished Service Award
- Third Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) held February 22-25 in New Orleans, LA.
Program Chairs: Margo Seltzer, Harvard University, and Paul Leach, Microsoft - Eighteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held May 4-6 in Atlanta, GA.
Conference Chair: Brian Coan, Bellcore
Program Chair: Jennifer Welch, Texas A&M University - Seventeenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 12-15 at Kiawah Island Resort, near Charleston, SC.
General Chair: David Kotz, Dartmouth College
Program Chair: John Wilkes, HP Labs
2000
- Mike Dahlin, University of Texas, is appointed new Information Director.
- Nineteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 16-19 in Portland, OR.
Conference Chair: Gil Neiger, Intel
Program Chair: James Anderson, University of North Carolina - Ninth European Workshop on “Beyond the PC: New Challenges for the Operating System” held September 17-20 in Kolding, Denmark.
General Chair: Marc Shapiro, INRIA
Program Chair: Paulo Guedes, INESC - Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) held October 22-25 in San Diego, CA.
Program Chairs: Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, and Frans Kaashoek, MIT - First Workshop on Industrial Experiences with Systems Software (WIESS) held October 22 in San Diego in conjunction with OSDI.
Program Chair: Dejan S. Milojicic, HP Labs - Ninth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held November 12-15 in Cambridge, MA.
General Chair: Larry Rudolph, MIT
Program Chair: Anoop Gupta, Microsoft
2001
- New officers elected:
Chairman: David Kotz, Dartmouth College
Vice Chairman: Valerie Issarny, INRIA
Secretary-Treasurer: Michael Dahlin, University of Texas
Amin Vahdat, Duke University, is appointed Information Director. - Twentieth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 26-29 in Newport, RI.
Conference Chair: Ajay Kshemkalyani, University of Illinois, Chicago
Program Chair: Nir Shavit, Tel Aviv University and Sun Labs - Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 21-24 at Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada.
General Chair: Keith Marzullo, U. C. San Diego
Program Chair: Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University - First The Mark Weiser Award presented to Frans Kaashoek, MIT
- Distinguished Service Award presented to Bill Waite, University of Colorado, who edited the Operating Systems Review newsletter for over 30 years.
- SIGOPS membership continues to decline, and ends the year at 2880.
2002
- Twenty-first Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 21-24 in Monterey, CA.
Conference Chair: Aleta Ricciardi, Valaran Corporation
Program Chair: Keith Marzullo, U. C. San Diego - Tenth European Workshop on “Can We Really Depend on an OS?” held September 22-25 in Saint-Emilion, France.
General Chair: Gilles Muller, INRIA
Program Chair: Eric Jul, University of Copenhagen - Tenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 5-9 in San Jose, CA.
General Chair: Kourosh Gharachorloo, HP Labs
Program Chair: David A. Wood, University of Wisconsin - Mark Weiser Award presented to Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University
2003
- New officers elected:
Chairman: Keith Marzullo, U. C. San Diego
Vice Chairman: Gilles Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Secretary-Treasurer: Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin
Geoffrey M. Voelker, U. C. San Diego, appointed Information Director - Twenty-second Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 13-16 in Boston, MA.
Conference Chair: Elizabeth Borowsky, Boston College
Program Chair: Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM - First International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held November 5-7 in Los Angeles, CA.
General Chairs: Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech, and Deborah Estrin, UCLA
Program Chairs: David Culler, U. C. Berkeley, and Mani Srivastava, UCLA - Nineteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December at the Sagamore Resort on Lake George, NY.
General Chair: Michael Scott, University of Rochester
Program Chair: Larry Peterson, Princeton University - Mark Weiser Award presented to Mike Burrows, Google
2004
- Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University, appointed Secretary-Treasurer
- Twenty-third Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 25-28 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
Conference Chair: Soma Chaudhuri, Iowa State University
Program Chair: Shay Kutten, Technion - Eleventh European Workshop held September 19-22 in Leuven, Belgium.
General Chair: Yolande Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Program Chair: Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research - Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 9-13 in Boston, MA.
General Chair: Shubu Mukherjee, Intel
Program Chair: Kathryn S. McKinley, University of Texas - Second International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held November 3-5 in Baltimore, MD.
General Chair: John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia
Program Chairs: Anish Arora, Ohio State University, and Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California - Mark Weiser Award presented to Brian Bershad, University of Washington
2005
- Twenty-fourth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 17-20 in Las Vegas, NV.
Conference Chair: Marcos Aguilera, HP Labs
Program Chair: James Aspnes, Yale - Twentieth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 23-26 in Brighton, England.
General Chair: Andrew Herbert, Microsoft Cambridge Research
Program Chair: Ken Birman, Cornell University - Mark Weiser Award presented to Tom Anderson, University of Washington
- Third International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held November 2-4 in San Diego, CA.
General Chair: Jason Redi, BBN Technologies
Program Chairs: Hari Balakrishnan, MIT, and Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research
2006
- Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University, takes over as Editor of Operating Systems Review (replacing Bill Waite, who had been serving as Editor since 1972!)
- Membership dues are raised from $15 to $20 per year.
- First EuroSys Conference held April 18-21 in Leuven, Belgium.
General Chair: Yolande Berbers, K. U. Leuven
Program Chair: Will Zwaenepoel, EPFL - Second International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)held June 14-16 in Ottawa, Canada.
General Chair: Hans Boehm, HP Labs
Program Chair: David Grove, IBM Research - Twenty-fifth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 23-26 in Denver, CO.
Conference Chair: Eric Ruppert, York University
Program Chair: Dahlia Malkhi, Microsoft Research - Twelfth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 21-25 in San Jose, CA.
General Chair: John Shen, Intel
Program Chair: Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University - Fourth International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held October 31-November 3 in Boulder, CO.
General Chair: Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth University
Program Chairs: Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, and John Heidemann, USC - Mark Weiser Award presented to Dawson Engler, Stanford University
2007
- New officers elected:
Chairman: Doug Terry, Microsoft Research
Vice Chairman: Frank Bellosa, University of Karlsruhe
Secretary-Treasurer: Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University
Jeanna Matthews also remains newsletter Editor, and Thomas Bressoud, Denison University, becomes the Associate Editor.
Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto, is appointed Information Director. - Second EuroSys Conference held March 21-23 in Lisbon, Portugal.
General Chair: Paulo Ferreira, Technical University of Lisbon
Program Chair: Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich - Third International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)held June 13-15 in San Diego, CA.
General Chair: Chandra Krintz, U. C. Santa Barbara
Program Chairs: Steven Hand, University of Cambridge, and David Tarditi, Microsoft Research - Twenty-sixth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 12-15 in Portland, OR.
Conference Chair: Indranil Gupta, UIUC
Program Chair: Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich - Twenty-first Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 14-17 in Stevenson, WA.
General Chair: Tom Bressoud, Denison University
Program Chair: Frans Kaashoek, MIT - Mark Weiser Award presented to Peter Chen, University of Michigan
- Fifth International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held November 6-9 in Sydney, Australia.
General Chair: Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales
Program Chairs: Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research, and Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt University
2008
- Barbara Liskov receives ACM Turing Award
- Thirteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 1-5 in Seattle, WA.
General Chair: Susan Eggers, University of Washington
Program Chair: James Larus, Microsoft Research - Fourth International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)held March 5-7 in Seattle, WA.
General Chair: David Gregg, Trinity College Dublin
Program Chairs: Vikram Adve, University of Illinois, and Brian Bershad, University of Washington - Third EuroSys Conference held March 31-April 4 in Glasgow, Scotland.
General Chair: Joe Sventek, University of Glasglow
Program Chair: Steven Hand, University of Cambridge - Mark Weiser award presented to Peter Druschel, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
2009
- Ed Lazowska receives ACM Distinguished Service Award
- Fourteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 7-11 in Washington, DC, USA.
General Chair: Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia
Program Chair: Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University - International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 11-13 in Washington, DC, USA.
General Chair: Tony Hosking, Purdue University
Program Chairs: David F. Bacon, IBM Research and Orran Krieger, VMware - EuroSys Conference held 1-3 April in Nuremberg, Germany.
General Chair: Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
Program Chair: John Wilkes, Google Mt View - Twenty-Second Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 14-17 in Big Sky, Montana, USA.
General Chair: Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University
Program Chair: Thomas Anderson, University of Washington
Keynote: Barbara Liskov’s Turing Award Lecture. - Mark Weiser award presented to Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley
2010
- Fifteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 13-17 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
General Chair: James C. Hoe, CMU
Program Chair: Vikram S. Adve, UIUC - International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 17-19 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
General Chair: Marc E. Fiuczynski, Princeton University
Program Chairs: Emery Berger, UMass Amherst and Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia - EuroSys Conference held 13-16 April in Paris, France.
General Chair: Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes
Program Chair: Gilles Muller, INRIA - Mark Weiser award presented to Robert Morris, MIT
2011
- New officers elected:
Chairman: Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Clarkson
Vice Chairman: George Candea, EPFL
Secretary-Treasurer: Dilma Da Silva, IBM Research
Muli Ben-Yehuda, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, is appointed Information Director - Tom Bressoud has expanded his role with OSR from associate editor to co- editor.
- Sixteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 5-11 in Newport Beach, CA, USA.
General Chair: Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside
Program Chair: Todd Mowry, CMU - International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 9-11 in Newport Beach, CA, USA.
General Chair: Erez Petrank, Technion
Program Chairs: Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego - EuroSys Conference held 10-13 April in Salzburg, Austria.
General Chair: Christoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg
Program Chair: Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales - Twenty-Third Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 23-26 in Cascais, Portugal.
General Chair: Ted Wobber, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Program Chair: Peter Druschel, MPI-SWS - Mark Weiser award presented to Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research
2012
- Seventeenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 3-7 in London, UK.
General Chair: Tim Harris, Microsoft Research
Program Chair: Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester - International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 3-4 in London, UK.
General Chair: Steve Hand, U. Cambridge
Program chair: Dilma da Silva, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center - EuroSys Conference held 10-13 April in Bern, Switzerland.
General Chair: Pascal Felber, University of Neuchâtel
Program Chairs: Frank Bellosa, KIT and Herbert Bos, VU University - Mark Weiser award presented to Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Google
2013
- Eighteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 16–20 in Houston, Texas.
General Chair: Vivek Sarkar, Rice University
Program Chair: Rastislav Bodik, University of California — Berkeley - International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 16-17 in Houston, Texas.
General Chair: Steve Muir, VMware
Program Chairs: Steve Blackburn, Australian National University; Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales - EuroSys Conference held 14-17 April in Prague, Czech Republic.
General Chair: Zdenek Hanzalek, Czech Technical University Prague; Hermann Hartig, Technische Universitat Dresden
Program Chair: Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Frans Kaashoek, MIT - Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 4-7 in Monterey, CA, USA.
General Chair: Michael Kaminsky, Intel Labs
Program Chair: Mike Dahlin, Google and UT Austin - Mark Weiser award presented to Stefan Savage, University of California – San Diego
- Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award presented to Mona Attariyan, University of Michigan
- Shan Lu, University of Wisconsin — Madison, is appointed Information Director
2014
- Nineteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 1-5 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
General Chair: Rajeev Balasubramonian, Univ. of Utah; Al Davis, Univ. of Utah
Program Chair: Sarita Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 1-2 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
General Chair: Martin Hirzel, IBM Research
Program chair: Erez Petrank and Dan Tsafrir, Technion - EuroSys Conference held 13-16 April in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
General Chair: Dick Bulterman, CWI; Herbert Bos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Program Chairs: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Peter Druschel, MPI-SWS - Mark Weiser award presented to Eddie Kohler, Harvard University
- Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award presented to Austin T. Clements, MIT
2015
- New officers elected:
Chairman: Robbert Van Renesse, Cornell University
Vice Chairman: Shan Lu, University of Chicago
Secretary-Treasurer: Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM Research - Twentieth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 14–18 in Istanbul, Turkey.
General Chair: Ozcan Ozturk, Bilkent University; Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing
Program Chair: Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester - International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 14-15 in Istanbul, Turkey.
General Chair: Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech
Program Chairs: Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto; Bjarne Steensgaard, Microsoft - EuroSys Conference held 21-24 April in Bordeaux, France.
General Chair: Laurent Reveillere, University of Bordeaux
Program Chair: Tim Harris, Oracle Labs, UK; Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA - Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 4-7 in Monterey, CA, USA.
General Chair: Ethan L. Miller, Univ. of California Santa Cruz
Program Chair: Steven Hand, Google - Håvard D. Johansen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, is appointed Information Director
2016
- Twenty-First International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held April 2–6 in Atlanta, GA, USA.
- General Chair: Tom Conte (Georgia Tech)
- Program Chair: Yuanyuan Zhou (University of California, San Diego)
- EuroSys Conference held 18-21 April in London, UK.
- General Chairs: Cristian Cadar and Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
- Program Chair: Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs, USA; and Rodrigo Rodrigues, Instituto Superior Técnico (Univ. Lisbon) and INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal
- International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held April 2-3 in Atlanta, GA, USA.
- General Chair: Vishakha Gupta, Intel.
- Program Chairs: Don Porter, Stony Brook University.
- Mark Weiser Award
- Presented to Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research Cambridge.
- Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award
- presented to Vijay Chidambaram for his dissertaion “Orderless and Eventually
Durable File Systems” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- presented to Vijay Chidambaram for his dissertaion “Orderless and Eventually
- The Hall of Fame Award
- presented to Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber; for their paper “Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured
Data”, published at OSDI 2006.
- presented to Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber; for their paper “Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured
2017
- New appointed co-editors of Operating System Review
- Mark Silberstein (Technion),
- Chris Rossbach (UT Austin),
- Kishore Pusukuri (LinkedIn)
- New apointed Awards Chair
- Nickolai Zeldovich (MIT)
- Eusosys Conference held 23-26 April in Belrgrade, Serbia
- General Chair: Marko Vukolić (IBM Research – Zurich)
- Program Committee Chairs: Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich) and
Ricardo Bianchini (Microsoft Research)
- SOSP 2017: The 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles held 28-31 October in Shanghain, China.
- General Chairs: Haibo Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Lidong Zhou (Microsoft).
- Program Committee Chairs: Lorenzo Alvisi (Cornell University) and Peter Chen ( University of Michigan).
- ASPLOS 2017: 22nd ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems held 8-12 April in Xi’an, China.
- General Chairs: Yunji Chen (ICT, CAS) and Olivier Temam (Google)
- Program Chair: John Carter (IBM)
- PODC 2017: The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing.
- General Chair: Elad Schiller (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
- Program Committee Chair: Alexander Schwarzmann (University of Connecticut, USA)
- VEE 2017: The 13th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments was held 8-9 April in Xi’an, China
- General Chair: Todd Mytkowicz (Microsoft Research)
- Program Co-chairs: Tim Harris (Oracle Labs) & Galen Hunt (Microsoft Research)
- SoCC 2017: The 8th The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing was held 25-27 September in Santa Clara, California, USA.
- General Chair: Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
- Program Chairs: Mahesh Balakrishnan (Yale University) and Carlo Curino (Microsoft)
- SYSTOR 2017: The 10th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference held 22-24 May in Haifa, Israel.
- General Chair: Doron Chen (IBM)
- Program Chairs: Peter Desnoyers (Northeastern University) and Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto)
- HOTOS 2017: The 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems was held 7-10 May at in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
- General Chair: Rachit Agarwal (Cornell University) and
Ivan Beschastnikh (University of British Columbia) - Program Chairs: Alexandra Fedorova (University of British Columbia) and
Andrew Warfield (University of British Columbia)
- General Chair: Rachit Agarwal (Cornell University) and
- The Mark Weiser Award
- Nickolai Zeldovich (MIT)
- The Dennis M. Ritchie Award
- Haogang Chen (MIT). Certifying a Crash-Safe File System
- The W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
- Elizabeth Borowsky and Eli Gafni for “Generalized FLP impossibility result for t-resilient asynchronous computations.”
2018
- EuroSys 2018 was held 23-26 April in Porto, Portugal.
- General Chair: Rui Oliveira (INESC TEC & University of Minho)
- Program Committee Chairs: Pascal Felber (University of Neuchâtel) and Y. Charlie Hu, (Purdue University)
- SATIS 2018: The 1st ACM SIGOPS Summer School on Advanced Topics is System held 14-17 August in Sommaray/Tromøy, Norway.
- General Chair: Håvard Dagenborg Johansen (University of Tromsø),
- Program Committee: Robbert van Renesse, Chair (Cornell University), Fred B. Schneider (Cornell University), Dag Johansen (University of Tromsø), andLorenzo Alvisi (Cornell University).
- The Mark Weiser Award
- Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
SIGOPS workshops
A history of SIGOPS workshop can be found in our archives.