The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Technical Association. It was founded in 1975 under the name "Unix Users Group", focusing primarily on the study and development of Unix and similar systems. The name change to Usenix was in reaction to a threatening letter from Western Electric. It has since grown into a respected organization among practitioners, developers, and researchers of computer operating systems more generally. Description: Logo for the USENIX organization. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... Western Electric (sometimes abbreviated WE and WECo) was a US electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T from 1881 to 1995 . ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

USENIX has a special technical group for system administrators, SAGE: The People Who Make IT Work. The term system administrator, abbreviated sysadmin, designates an employment position of those people responsible for running technically advanced information systems or some aspect of them. ... SAGE is an international nonprofit professional association of system administrators. ...

It sponsors several conferences and workshops each year, most notably the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, the USENIX Security Symposium, and, with SAGE, LISA, a conference devoted to system administration. The USENIX Annual Technical Conference is a conference of computing professions sponsored by the USENIX association. ... LISA is the Annual System Administration Conference, co-sponsored by USENIX and SAGE. It began in 1986. ...

2002-2004 officers

• President: Marshall Kirk McKusick
• Vice President: Michael B. Jones
• Secretary: Peter Honeyman
• Treasurer: Lois Bennett
• Directors:
  • Tina Darmohray
  • John Gilmore
  • Jon "maddog" Hall
  • Avi Rubin

Marshall Kirk McKusick (b. ... John Gilmore John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. ... Jon maddog Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International [1], a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux operating system. ... Avi Rubin speaking at the Voting Systems Testing Summit in October 2005. ...

2004-2006 officers

The following people took office June 27, 2004: June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• President: Mike Jones
• Vice President: Clem Cole
• Secretary: Alva Couch
• Treasurer: Theodore Ts'o
• Directors:
  • Matt Blaze
  • Jon "maddog" Hall
  • Geoff Halprin
  • Marshall Kirk McKusick

Theodore Ted Tso is a software developer known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to filesystems. ... Matt Blaze is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. ... Jon maddog Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International [1], a non-profit association of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux operating system. ... Marshall Kirk McKusick (b. ...

USENIX Lifetime achievement award

This award, also called the "Flame" award, is handed out annually since 1993.

• 2005 Michael Stonebraker
• 2004 M. Douglas McIlroy
• 2003 Rick Adams
• 2002 James Gosling
• 2001 The GNU Project and all its contributors [1]
• 2000 W. Richard Stevens
• 1999 "The X Window System Community at Large"
• 1998 Tim Berners-Lee
• 1997 Brian W. Kernighan
• 1996 The Software Tools Project
• 1995 The Creation of USENET
• 1994 Networking Technologies
• 1993 Berkeley UNIX

2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Stonebraker is a computer scientist specializing in database research and development. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Portrait of Douglas McIlroy taken at the NATO conference in Garmisch 1968, courtesy of Brian Randell. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rick Adams was an Internet pioneer and the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the worlds largest Internet Services Provider (ISP). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... James Gosling James Gosling (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a famous software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa The GNU Project was announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... William Richard Stevens (1951 Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) - September 1, 1999) was one of the most famous and widely acclaimed authors of UNIX and TCP/IP books. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... KDE 3. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brian Kernighan¹ (born 1942) is a computer scientist who worked at the Bell Labs and contributed to the design of the pioneering AWK and AMPL programming languages. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

See also

• SAGE (organization)
• LISA (conference)
• Marshall Kirk McKusick
• Unix

SAGE is an international nonprofit professional association of system administrators. ... LISA is the Annual System Administration Conference, co-sponsored by USENIX and SAGE. It began in 1986. ... Marshall Kirk McKusick (b. ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...

External links

• The Advanced Computing Systems Organization
• The System Administrators Guild