Editing USENIX

{{Short description|Organization supporting operating system research}}
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| formation    = {{start date and age|1975}}<ref name="salus2008">{{Cite web|url=https://www.usenix.org/legacy/about/history/index.html|title=USENIX History : Thirtieth Anniversary, USENIX Association|publisher=USENIX|access-date=2020-04-12|date=25 April 2008|quote=June 18, 1975. CUNY in Manhattan. Mel Ferentz runs the first USENIX conference. Of course, it wasn't called USENIX then, it was a UNIX users' group, until the lawyers at AT&T; got tough about that (tm). And it wasn't the first meeting, either, as Lou Katz had run a small meeting in a conference room at Columbia in May 1974. But there were "about 40 people from 20 institutions" at the 1975 meeting.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121155113/https://www.usenix.org/legacy/about/history/index.html|archive-date=21 November 2017|first=Peter H.|last=Salus|author-link=Peter H. Salus}}</ref>
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| headquarters = [[Berkeley, California]], [[United States]]
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| leader_title = President
| leader_name  = Amy Rich
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[[File:USENIXBooth.jpg|thumb|USENIX booth at Linuxcon 2016]]

'''USENIX''' is an American [[501(c)(3) organization|501(c)(3) nonprofit]] [[membership organization]] based in [[Berkeley, California]] and founded in 1975 that supports advanced [[Computer|computing systems]], [[operating system]] (OS), and [[Computer network|computer networking]] research.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2017-04-21 |title=About USENIX |url=https://www.usenix.org/about |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=USENIX |language=en}}</ref> It organizes several conferences in these fields.<ref name=":0" />

== History ==
USENIX was established in 1975 under the name "Unix Users Group," focusing primarily on the study and development of the [[Unix]] OS family and similar systems. In June 1977, a lawyer from [[AT&T Corporation]] informed the group that they could not use the word "Unix" in their name as it was a trademark of [[Western Electric]] (the manufacturing arm of AT&T until 1995), which led to the change of name to USENIX.<ref name="auugn24_2" /> Since its founding, it has published a technical [[Academic journal|journal]] titled ''[[;login:]]''.<ref>[http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/ ;login: The USENIX Magazine]</ref>

USENIX was started as a technical organization. As commercial interest grew, a number of separate groups started in parallel, most notably the [[Software Tools Users Group]] (STUG), a technical adjunct for Unix-like tools and interface on non-Unix operating systems, and /usr/group, a commercially oriented user group.

USENIX's founding President was Lou Katz.

==Conferences==
USENIX hosts numerous conferences and symposia each year, including:

*[[Operating Systems Design and Implementation|USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation ]] (OSDI) (was bi-annual till 2020)
*USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
*USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
*USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
*[[USENIX Annual Technical Conference]] (USENIX ATC) (co-located with OSDI since 2021)
*SREcon, a conference for engineers focused on site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale
*LISA, the [[Large Installation System Administration Conference]]
*Enigma, a conference focused on practical privacy and security expertise and knowledge sharing in a welcoming and inclusive environment

== Publications ==
USENIX publishes a magazine called '';login:'' that appears four times a year.<ref>{{Cite web|title=USENIX ;login: {{!}} The Advanced Computing Systems Association|url=https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline|access-date=2021-07-13|website=www.usenix.org}}</ref> From 2021, it has become an all-digital magazine and openly accessible. '';login:'' content informs the community about practically relevant research, useful tools, and relevant events.

From 1988–1996, USENIX published the quarterly journal ''Computing Systems'', about the theory and implementation of advanced computing systems in the UNIX tradition. It was published first by the University of California Press, then by the MIT Press. The issues have been scanned and are online.<ref>[https://www.usenix.org/publications/compsystems/computing-systems ''Computing systems: A quarterly publication of the USENIX Association''], at usenix.org</ref>

== Open access ==
USENIX conferences became [[open access]] in 2008.<ref>[https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-supports-open-access USENIX Supports Open Access]</ref> Since 2011, they have provided audio and video recordings of paper presentations and conference talks in their open-access materials, free of charge.

==USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award==

This award, also called the "Flame" award, has been presented since 1993.<ref>{{cite web|title=USENIX Flame Award|date=6 December 2011 |url=http://www.usenix.org/about/flame.html|publisher=USENIX|access-date=2018-12-22}}</ref>

*2024 [[Arnold Robbins]]
*2023 [[Steven M. Bellovin]], [[Matt Blaze]], and [[Susan Landau]]
*2022 [[Warren Toomey]]
*2021 (no award)
*2020 [[Chet Ramey]]
*2019 [[Margo Seltzer]]
*2018 [[Eddie Kohler]]
*2014 [[Thomas E. Anderson]]
*2012 [[John Mashey]]
*2011 [[Dan Geer]]
*2010 [[Ward Cunningham]]
*2009 [[Gerald J. Popek]]
*2008 [[Andrew S. Tanenbaum]]
*2007 [[Peter Honeyman]]
*2006 [[Radia Perlman]]
*2005 [[Michael Stonebraker]]
*2004 [[M. Douglas McIlroy]]
*2003 [[Rick Adams (Internet pioneer)|Rick Adams]]
*2002 [[James Gosling]]
*2001 The [[GNU Project]] and [http://www.usenix.org/about/gnuremarks.html all its contributors]
*2000 [[W. Richard Stevens]]
*1999 "The [[X Window System]] Community at Large"
*1998 [[Tim Berners-Lee]]
*1997 [[Brian W. Kernighan]]
*1996 [[The Software Tools Users Group]] ([[Dennis E. Hall]], [[Deborah Scherrer]], [[Joe Sventek]])
*1995 The Creation of [[USENET]] by [[Jim Ellis (computing)|Jim Ellis]], [[Steven M. Bellovin]], and [[Tom Truscott]]
*1994 Networking Technologies
*1993 [[Berkeley UNIX]]

==See also==
*[[AUUG]]
*[[LISA (conference)]]
*[[Marshall Kirk McKusick]]
*LISA SIG: Formerly [[SAGE (organization)]]
*[[Unix]]

==References==
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<ref name=auugn24_2>{{cite journal | first=Greg | last=Lehey | title=President's Column | journal=AUUGN | volume=24 | issue=2 |date=June 2003 | page=3 | publisher=AUUG, Inc. | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SjCsT2rw4eEC | access-date=June 3, 2010 }}</ref>
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==External links==
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*[http://www.usenix.org/ USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association]
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/USENIXAssociation Official USENIX YouTube Channel]

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