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.
USENIX has a special technical group for system administrators, SAGE: The People Who Make IT Work.
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.
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
2004-2006 officers
The following people take office June 27, 2004:
- 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
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
- 2000 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
