Thinking outside the box: My PhD Odyssey From Single-Server Architecture to Distributed Datastores (Part 2)

Editor’s notes: We invite SIGOPS award winners to write about backstories behind the award-winning work. In this article, Antonis Katsarakis shares the journey of his PhD dissertation–“Invalidation-Based Protocols for Replicated Datastores”–which received the Honorable Mention of the 2023 Roger Needham PhD Award. Antonis is now a Principal Researcher at Huawei Research. He received his PhD from the … Read more

Thinking outside the box: My PhD Odyssey From Single-Server Architecture to Distributed Datastores (Part 1)

Editor’s notes: We invite SIGOPS award winners to write about backstories behind the award-winning work. In this article, Antonis Katsarakis shares the journey of his PhD dissertation–“Invalidation-Based Protocols for Replicated Datastores”–which received the Honorable Mention of the 2023 Roger Needham PhD Award. Antonis is now a Principal Researcher at Huawei Research. He received his PhD from the … Read more

The 25th ChinaSys Workshop

The 25th ChinaSys Workshop on Computer Systems was held on December 16-17, 2023, in Lanzhou, Gansu. The workshop is organized by ACM China SIGOPS (ChinaSys), hosted by Lanzhou University and Peking University, with the support of Tsinghua University Press. The event was sponsored by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd., and … Read more

The Mark Weiser Award 2023

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 research accomplishments during his career at Xerox PARC. The award committee for 2023 … Read more