ACM SIGOPS

{{Short description|ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems}}

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ACM SIGOPS is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, an international community of students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners associated with research and development related to operating systems.{{cite web|title=Special Interest Group on Operating Systems|url=https://www.sigops.org/|website=SIGOPS|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=7 June 2017}} The organization sponsors international conferences related to computer systems, operating systems, computer architectures, distributed computing, and virtual environments. In addition, the organization offers multiple awards recognizing outstanding participants in the field, including the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award, in honor of Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of the C programming language and Unix operating system.{{cite news|title=Dennis Ritchie obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/13/dennis-ritchie|newspaper=The Guardian|date=13 October 2011 |access-date=7 June 2017 |last1=Campbell-Kelly |first1=Martin }}

History

In 1965, Henriette Avram started the ACM Special Interest Committee on Time-Sharing (SICTIME), and Arthur M. Rosenberg became the first chair. In 1968, the name was changed to ACM SIGOPS. By 1969, the organization included nearly 1000 members.{{cite web|title=A Chronological History of SIGOPS: its Officers, Conferences, and Awards|url=https://www.sigops.org/history.html|website=SIGOPS History|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=7 June 2017}}

Conferences

ACM SIGOPS sponsors the following industry conferences, some independently and some in partnership with industry participants such as ACM SIGPLAN, USENIX, Oracle, Microsoft, and VMWare.

Hall of Fame

ACM SIGOPS includes a Hall of Fame Award, started in 2005, recognizing influential papers from ten or more years in the past. Notable recipients include:

  • Leslie Lamport (2013){{cite web|title=Chat with Leslie Lamport ACM Turing Award Recipient in 2014 (Nobel Prize of Computing); World-Renowned Distinguished Researcher|url=http://stephenibaraki.com/acm/interviews/v0414/leslie_lamport_acm.html|website=Interviews|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=7 June 2017}}
  • Barbara Liskov (2012){{cite web|title=LISKOV HONORED WITH SIGOPS HALL OF FAME AWARD|url=http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/1904|website=Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|publisher=MIT|access-date=7 June 2017}}
  • Richard Rashid{{cite web|title="127 Hours" Survivor, 8 Distinguished Honorary Degree c Recipients Featured at Commencement|url=https://www.cmu.edu/piper/archives/ThePiper/ThePiperMay11.pdf|website=The Piper|publisher=Carnegie Mellon University|access-date=7 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919150323/http://www.cmu.edu/piper/archives/ThePiper/ThePiperMay11.pdf|archive-date=19 September 2016|url-status=dead}}
  • Dennis Ritchie (2002){{cite web|title=Dennis Selected for ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame|url=http://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/media/dennis-selected-acm-sigops-hall-fame|website=Electrical Engineering & Computer Science|publisher=MIT|access-date=7 June 2017}}

Journal

ACM SIGOPS publishes the Operating Systems Review (OSR), a forum for topics including operating systems and architecture for multiprogramming, multiprocessing, and time-sharing, and computer system modeling and analysis.{{cite web|title=Operating Systems Review|url=https://www.sigops.org/osr.html|website=OSR|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=7 June 2017}}

See also

References