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 consisted of … Read more
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 consisted of … Read more
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.
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