SOSP 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.
Awards
The Dennis M. Ritchie Award 2017
The 2017 SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award goes to Haogang Chen.
The Mark Weiser Award 2017
The the 2017 SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award goes to Nickolai Zeldovich.
The Hall of Fame Award 2017
The 2017 SIGOPS Hall-of-Fame awards goes to (1) Mike Burrows, for his paper “The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems”; and to (2) Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall, and Werner Vogels for their paper “Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store”.