A Chronological History of SIGOPS: its Officers, Conferences, and Awards

1965

• Special Interest Committee on Time-Sharing (SICTIME) founded by Henriette Avram.
• Arthur M. Rosenberg, Scientific Data Systems, becomes first SIGTIME (i.e. later SIGOPS) Chairman

1967

• First Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held in Gatlinburg, TN.
• Maurice V. Wilkes receives ACM Turing Award

1968

• Peter J. Denning, Princeton University, appointed Editor of quarterly SIGTIME newsletter.
• SIGTIME becomes SIGOPS, the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, after ACM approval at the Fall Joint Computer Conference.

1969

• SIGOPS starts the year with about 400 members and reaches nearly 1000 members by year’s end.
• Peter J. Denning appointed Vice-Chairman of SIGOPS.
• New SIGOPS officers are appointed on July 1 for a two-year period:
  Chairman:  Peter J. Denning, Princeton University
  Vice Chairman:  William Konigsford, Virtual Time Sharing, Inc.
  Secretary-Treasurer:  Marc A. Auslander, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  Newsletter Editor:  Michael M. Gold, University of Pittsburg
  
• SIGTIME Bulletin becomes SIGOPS Bulletin effective February 1969; newsletter changed from SIGOPS Bulletin to Operating Systems Review, effective with the November issue (volume 3, no. 4).
• Workshop on Systems Reliability and Recovery held July 14-15 in Pacific Palisades, CA.  Chair: Algirdis Avizieznis, UCLA.
• Second Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 20-22 at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 
  General chair: Peter Denning, Princeton University. 
  Program chairs: Edward G. Coffman and Stanley M. Altman, Princeton University.

1970

• Ted J. Jardine, Computer Sciences Corp, takes over as newsletter Editor.
• Marc Auslander, IBM Research, takes over as Chairman for Peter Denning (who is promoted to ACM SIG/SIC Chairman).
• J. Richard Swenson, University of Toronto, takes over as OSR Editor.
• SIGOPS ends the year with over 1,800 members, second in size only to SIGPLAN.

1971

• Edsger W. Dijkstra receives ACM Turing Award
• SIGOPS sponsored Workshop on System Performance Evaluation held at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 5-7.
  Program Coordinator: Robert P. Goldberg, MIT.
  Co-Chairman: Robert M. Graham, U. C. Berkeley, and Ugo Gagliardi, Harvard University.
• Third Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 18-20 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
  General Chair: Edward J. McCluskey, Stanford University.
  Program Chairs: Thomas Bredt, Stanford University, and Butler Lampson, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

1972

• New SIGOPS officers appointed:
  Chairman:  R. Stockton Gaines, Institute for Defense Analyses
  Vice Chairman:  Butler Lampson, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
  Secretary-Treasurer:  Marc Auslander, IBM Research Center
  Newsletter Editor: William M. Waite, University of Colorado

1973

• Workshop on Virtual Computer Systems held at Harvard University, March 26-27.
  Chair: Barbara Solomon, Honeywell Information Systems
• SIGPLAN/SIGOPS Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems held in Savannah, Georgia, on April 9-12.
  Chair: Robert M. Graham, The City College
• Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 15-17 in Yorktown Heights, New York.
  General Chairs: Herbert Schorr and Alan Perlis
  Program Chairs: Peter Weiner, Yale University, and Don Frazer, IBM Research

1974

• William C. Lynch, Case Western Reserve University, takes over as Secretary-Treasurer.

1975

• J. C. Browne, University of Texas, takes over as Chairman.
• SIGCOMM/SIGOPS Workshop on Interprocess Communications held in March in Santa Monica, CA.
  Chairs:  Wesley W. Chu, Vinton Cerf, T. C. Chen, R. Stockton Gains, and Butler Lampson
• Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held November 19-21 in Austin, Texas.
  General Chair:  J. C. Browne, University of Texas
  Program Chairs:  J. C. Browne, University of Texas, and Juan Rodrigues-Rosell, IBM Research

1976

1977

• New officers appointed:
  Chairman:  Robert S. Fabry, University of California, Berkeley
  Vice Chairman:  Peter R. Christy, Digital Equipment Corporation
  Secretary-Treasurer:  Dorothy Denning, Purdue University
  William Waite remains the newsletter editor.
• ACM Conference on Language Design for Reliable Software held in April.
• Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held November 16-18 at Purdue University.
  General Chair:  Saul Rosen
  Program Chair:  Peter J. Denning

1978

• As of March 31, SIGOPS continues to be the second largest SIG (behind SIGPLAN) with 6326 members.
  SIGOPS dues are increased from $3 to $5 per year.
• The ACM Council decrees that all SIG officers should be elected for two-year terms beginning July 1 of odd numbered years.  SIGOPS establishes a nominating committee in preparation for its first election and adopts new bylaws.

1979

• Seventh Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held on December 10-12 at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA.
  General Chair:  Michael D. Schroeder, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
  Program Chair:  Anita K. Jones, Carnegie Mellon University
• SIGOPS-SIGSOFT Anecdotal History of Computer Systems held in conjunction with SOSP.
  Chair:  Peter G. Neumann, SRI International

1980

• New officers are elected, rather than appointed, after the elections are delayed by a year:
  Chairman:  Dorothy E. Denning, Purdue University
  Vice Chairman:  David Redell, Xerox
  Secretary-Treasurer:  Gregory Andrews, University of Arizona
  Membership surpasses 7,000.
  Dues increased from $5 to $8 per year.
• SIGOPS and SIGPLAN Workshop on Fundamental Issues of Distributed Computing held December 15-17 in Fallbrook, CA.
  Chair:  Barbara Liskov, MIT

1981

• Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) proposed, rather than Transactions on Operating Systems (TOPS), and approved by ACM Publications Planning Committee.
• Eighth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 13-16 at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA.
  General Chair:  John Howard, IBM San Jose
  Program Chair:  David P. Reed, MIT

1982

• SIGARCH, SIGOPS, and SIGPLAN Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 1-3 in Palo Alto, CA.
  General Chair:  Lloyd Dickman, Digital Equipment Corporation
  Program Chair:  David R. Ditzel, Bell Laboratories
• SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, and SIGOPS Symposium on Computer Network Performance held April 13-14 in College Park, MD.
  General Chair:  David Wood, MITRE
  Program Chairs:  Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, and David Ault, MITRE
• SIGACT and SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 18-20 in Ottawa, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Robert Probert, University of Ottawa
  Program Chair:  Michael Fisher, Yale University

1983

• New officers are elected:
  Chairman:  Alan Jay Smith, University of California, Berkeley
  Vice Chairman:  Liba Svobodova, IBM Research
  Secretary-Treasurer:  Kevin Kahn, Intel
• Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth L. Thompson receive ACM Turing Award
• First issue of Transactions on Computer Systems is published with Anita K. Jones as Editor-in-Chief
• Second Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 17-19 in Montreal, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Robert Probert, University of Ottawa
  Program Chair:  Nancy Lynch, MIT
• Ninth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 10-13 in Bretton Woods, NH.
  General Chair:  Jerry Saltzer, MIT
  Program Chairs:  Roy Levin, Xerox PARC, and David Redell, Xerox

1984

• Third Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 27-29 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Tiko Kameda, Simon Fraser University
  Program Chair:  Jayadev Misra, University of Texas

1985

• New officers elected (or re-elected):
  Chairman:  Alan Jay Smith, University of California, Berkeley
  Vice Chairman:  Liba Svobodova, IBM Zurich Research
  Secretary-Treasurer:  Sten Andler, IBM San Jose Research
• Workshop on Operating Systems in Computer Networks held January 28-30 in Ruschlikon, Switzerland.
  Chair:  Liba Svodobova, IBM Research
• Fourth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 5-7 in Minaki, Ontario, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Mike Malcom, University of Waterloo
  Program Chair:  Ray Strong, IBM San Jose
• Tenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 1-4 at Rosario Resort, Orcas Island, Washington.
  General Chair:  Forest Baskett, Digital Equipment Corporation
  Program Chairs:  Andrew Birrell, DEC, and David Cheriton, Stanford University
• Workshop on Accommodating Heterogeneity held December 4-6 in conjunction with SOSP.
  Chair:  Ed Lazowska, University of Washington

1986

• William N. Joy receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
• Fifth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 11-13 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Ernest Chang, Alberta Research Council
  Program Chair:  Joseph Halpern, IBM Almaden
• Second European Workshop on “Making Distributed Systems Work” held September 8-10 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  Chair:  Sape Mullender, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)

1987

• New officers elected:
  Chairman:  Roy Levin, DEC SRC
  Vice Chairman:  Sape Mullender, CWI
  Secretary-Treasurer:   Hank Levy, University of Washington
  Membership dues were raised from $8 to $10 per year.
• John K. Ousterhout receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
• Sixth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 10-12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  David Kirkpatrick, University of British Columbia
  Program Chair:  Fred B. Schneider, Cornell University
• Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 5-8 in Palo Alto, CA.
  General Chair:  Martin Freeman, Stanford University
  Program Chair:  Randy H. Katz, University of California, Berkeley
• Eleventh Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held November 9-11 in Austin, TX.
  General Chair:  Les Belady, MCC Corporation
  Program Chair:  Alfred Spector, Carnegie Mellon University

1988

• SIGOPS and SIGPLAN Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging held May 5-6 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
  Chair:  Bart Miller, University of Wisconsin
• Seventh Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 15-17 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Eshrat Arjomandi, York University
  Program Chair:  Danny Dolev, IBM Almaden Research
• Third European Workshop on “Autonomy or Interdependence in Distributed Systems” held September 19-21 in Cambridge, England.
  Chair:  Roger Needham, Cambridge University

1989

• Peter J. Denning receives ACM Distinguished Service Award
• Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held April 3-6 in Boston, MA.
  General Chair:   Joel Elmer, DEC
  Program Chair:   John Hennessy, Stanford University
• Eighth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 14-16 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Piotr Rudnicki, University of Alberta
  Program Chair:  Michael Merritt, AT&T Bell Labs
• Twelfth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 3-6 at The Wigwam in Litchfield Park, AZ.
  General Chair:  Greg Andrews, University of Arizona
  Program Chair:  John Ousterhout, University of California, Berkeley

1990

• Ninth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 22-24 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Gregor v. Bockmann, Universite de Montreal
  Program Chair:  Cynthia Dwork, MIT
• Fourth European Workshop on “Fault Tolerance Support in Distributed Systems” held September 3-5 in Bologna, Italy.
  Chair:  Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna
• SIGOPS continues to have over 7000 members.

1991

• New officers elected:
  Chairman:  Henry M. Levy, University of Washington
  Vice Chairman:  Sape J. Mullender, University of Twente
  Secretary-Treasurer:   Anita Borg, DEC/WRL
• Membership dues raised from $10 to $15 per year to more accurately reflect the actual cost of printing and shipping conference proceedings to members.
• Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held April 8-11 in Palo Alto, CA.
  General Chair:   Bob Rau, HP Labs
  Program Chair:   Dave Patterson, University of California, Berkeley
• SIGPLAN and SIGOPS Second Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging held May 20-21 in Santa Cruz, CA.
  Chairs:  Charlie McDowell, U. C. Santa Cruz, and Bart Miller, University of Wisconsin
• Tenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 19-21 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Luigi Logrippo, University of Ottawa
  Program Chair:  Richard Ladner, University of Washington
• Thirteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 13-16 at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, CA.
  General Chair:  Jim Mitchell, Sun
  Program Chair:  Ed Lazowska, University of Washington

1992

• Butler W. Lampson receives ACM Turing Award
• Eleventh Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 10-12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  Norm Hutchinson, University of British Columbia
  Program Chair:  Maurice Herlihy, DEC Cambridge Research
• Fifth European Workshop on “Models and Paradigms for Distributed Systems Structuring” held September 21-23 in Le Mont Saint-Michel, France.
  Chairs:  Jean-Pierre Banatre, IRISA-INRIA, and Sacha Krakowiak, IMAG
• Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 12-15 in Boston, MA.
  General Chair:   Barry Flahive, HP
  Program Chair:   Hank Levy, University of Washington

1993

• Carla Ellis, Duke University, is appointed Secretary-Treasurer (replacing Anita Borg).  Other officers agree to stay for another two-year term.
• Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging held May 17-18 in San Diego, CA.
  Chairs:  Charlie McDowell, U. C. Santa Cruz, and Bart Miller, University of Wisconsin
• Twelfth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 15-18 in Ithaca, NY.
  Conference Chair:  James Anderson, University of Maryland
  Program Chair:  Sam Toueg, Cornell University
• Fourteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 5-8 in Asheville, NC.
  General Chair:  Andrew Black, DEC Cambridge Research
  Program Chair:  Barbara Liskov, MIT

1994

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum receives ACM Karl V. Karkstrom Outstanding Educator Award
• Thirteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 14-17 in Los Angeles, CA.
  Conference Chair:  James Anderson, University of North Carolina
  Program Chair:  David Peleg, Weismann Institute and IBM T.J. Watson Research
• Sixth European Workshop on “Matching Operating Systems to Application Needs” held September 14-16 in Wadern, Germany.
  General Chair:  Jurgen Nehmer, Universitat Kaiserslautern
  Program Chair:  Marc Shapiro, INRIA
• Sixth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 5-7 in San Jose, CA.
  General Chair:   Forest Baskett, Silicon Graphics
  Program Chair:   Doug Clark, Princeton University
• USENIX, IEEE, and SIGOPS sponsor First Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) held November 14-17 in Monterey, CA.
  Program Chair:  Jay Lepreau, University of Utah

1995

• New officers elected:
  Chairman:  Carla Ellis, Duke University
  Vice Chairman:  Marc Shapiro, INRIA
  Secretary-Treasurer:   Paul Leach, Microsoft
• Fourteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 20-23 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  Conference Chair:  James Anderson, University of North Carolina
  Program Chair:  Vassos Hadzilacos, University of Toronto
• Fifteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 3-6 at Cooper Mountain Resort, CO.
  General Chair:   John Bennett, Rice University
  Program Chair:  Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC

1996

• Peter J. Denning receives ACM Karl V. Karkstrom Outstanding Educator Award
• Fifteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held May 23-26 in Philadelphia, PA.
  Conference Chair:  James E. Burns, Bellcore
  Program Chair:  Yoram Moses, Weizmann Institute
• SIGACT, SIGARCH, and SIGOPS sponsor Fourth Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS) held May 27 in Philadelphia, PA.
  General Chairs:  David Kotz, Dartmouth College, Thomas H. Cormen, Dartmouth College, and Ravi Jain, Bellcore
  Program Chair:  Alok Choudhary, Syracuse University
• Seventh European Workshop on “Systems Support for Worldwide Applications” held September 9-11 in Connemara, Ireland.
  General Chair:  Andrew Herbert, ANSA
  Program Chair:  Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Vrije University
• Seventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 1-5 in Cambridge, MA.
  General Chair:   Bill Dally, MIT
  Program Chair:   Susan Eggers, University of Washington
• Second Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) held October 28-31 in Seattle, WA.
  Program Chairs:  Karin Petersen, Xerox PARC, and Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University

1997

• Mary Baker, Stanford University, is appointed to the new position of SIGOPS Information Director.
• Sixteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 21-24 in Santa Barbara, CA.
  Conference Chair:   James E. Burns, Bellcore
  Program Chair:  Hagit Attiya, Technion
• Sixteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 5-8 in Saint Malo, France.
  General Chair:  Michel Banatre, IRISA/INRIA
  Program Chair:  Hank Levy, University of Washington
• Fifth Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS) held November 17 in San Jose, CA
  General Chairs:  Thomas H. Cormen, Dartmouth College, and Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University
  Program Chair:  David Kotz, Dartmouth College
• SIGOPS membership has fallen to 4335 members.

1998

• Jim Gray receives ACM Turing Award
• Seventeenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held June 28-July 2 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  Conference Chair:   Brian Coan, Bellcore
  Program Chair:  Yehuda Afek, Tel-Aviv University
• Eighth European Workshop on “Support for Composing Distributed Applications” held September 7-10 in Sintra, Portugal.
  General Chair:  Paulo Guedes, INESC
  Program Chair:  Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge
• Eighth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 3-7 in San Jose, CA.
  General Chair:   Dileep Bhandarkar, Intel
  Program Chair:   Anant Agarwal, MIT

1999

• Fred Brooks receives ACM Turing Award
• New officers elected:
  Chairman:  William E. Weihl, Compaq SRC
  Vice Chairman:  Valerie Issarny, INRIA
  Secretary-Treasurer:   David Kotz, Dartmouth College
• Anita Borg receives ACM Distinguished Service Award
• Third Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) held February 22-25 in New Orleans, LA.
  Program Chairs:  Margo Seltzer, Harvard University, and Paul Leach, Microsoft
• Eighteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held May 4-6 in Atlanta, GA.
  Conference Chair:   Brian Coan, Bellcore
  Program Chair:  Jennifer Welch, Texas A&M University
• Seventeenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December 12-15 at Kiawah Island Resort, near Charleston, SC.
  General Chair:  David Kotz, Dartmouth College
  Program Chair:  John Wilkes, HP Labs

2000

• Mike Dahlin, University of Texas, is appointed new Information Director.
• Nineteenth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 16-19 in Portland, OR.
  Conference Chair:   Gil Neiger, Intel
  Program Chair:  James Anderson, University of North Carolina
• Ninth European Workshop on “Beyond the PC: New Challenges for the Operating System” held September 17-20 in Kolding, Denmark.
  General Chair:  Marc Shapiro, INRIA
  Program Chair:  Paulo Guedes, INESC
• Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) held October 22-25 in San Diego, CA.
  Program Chairs:  Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, and Frans Kaashoek, MIT
• First Workshop on Industrial Experiences with Systems Software (WIESS) held October 22 in San Diego in conjunction with OSDI.
  Program Chair:  Dejan S. Milojicic, HP Labs
• Ninth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held November 12-15 in Cambridge, MA.
  General Chair:   Larry Rudolph, MIT
  Program Chair:   Anoop Gupta, Microsoft

2001

• New officers elected:
  Chairman:  David Kotz, Dartmouth College
  Vice Chairman:  Valerie Issarny, INRIA
  Secretary-Treasurer:   Michael Dahlin, University of Texas
  Amin Vahdat, Duke University, is appointed Information Director.
• Twentieth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 26-29 in Newport, RI.
  Conference Chair:  Ajay Kshemkalyani, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Program Chair:  Nir Shavit, Tel Aviv University and Sun Labs
• Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 21-24 at Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada.
  General Chair:  Keith Marzullo, U. C. San Diego
  Program Chair:  Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University
• First The Mark Weiser Award presented to Frans Kaashoek, MIT
• Distinguished Service Award presented to Bill Waite, University of Colorado, who edited the Operating Systems Review newsletter for over 30 years.
• SIGOPS membership continues to decline, and ends the year at 2880.

2002

• Twenty-first Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 21-24 in Monterey, CA.
  Conference Chair:  Aleta Ricciardi, Valaran Corporation
  Program Chair:  Keith Marzullo, U. C. San Diego
• Tenth European Workshop on “Can We Really Depend on an OS?” held September 22-25 in Saint-Emilion, France.
  General Chair:  Gilles Muller, INRIA
  Program Chair:  Eric Jul, University of Copenhagen
• Tenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 5-9 in San Jose, CA.
  General Chair:   Kourosh Gharachorloo, HP Labs
  Program Chair:   David A. Wood, University of Wisconsin
• Mark Weiser Award presented to Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University

2003

• New officers elected:
  Chairman:  Keith Marzullo, U. C. San Diego
  Vice Chairman:  Gilles Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
  Secretary-Treasurer:   Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin
  Geoffrey M. Voelker, U. C. San Diego, appointed Information Director
• Twenty-second Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 13-16 in Boston, MA.
  Conference Chair:  Elizabeth Borowsky, Boston College
  Program Chair:  Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM
• First International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held November 5-7 in Los Angeles, CA.
  General Chairs:  Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech, and Deborah Estrin, UCLA
  Program Chairs:  David Culler, U. C. Berkeley, and Mani Srivastava, UCLA
• Nineteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held December at the Sagamore Resort on Lake George, NY.
  General Chair:  Michael Scott, University of Rochester
  Program Chair:  Larry Peterson, Princeton University
• Mark Weiser Award presented to Mike Burrows, Google

2004

• Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University, appointed Secretary-Treasurer
• Twenty-third Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 25-28 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
  Conference Chair:   Soma Chaudhuri, Iowa State University
  Program Chair:   Shay Kutten, Technion
• Eleventh European Workshop held September 19-22 in Leuven, Belgium.
  General Chair:  Yolande Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Program Chair:  Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research
• Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 9-13 in Boston, MA.
  General Chair:   Shubu Mukherjee, Intel
  Program Chair:   Kathryn S. McKinley, University of Texas
• Second International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held November 3-5 in Baltimore, MD.
  General Chair:  John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia
  Program Chairs:  Anish Arora, Ohio State University, and Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California
• Mark Weiser Award presented to Brian Bershad, University of Washington

2005

• Twenty-fourth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 17-20 in Las Vegas, NV.
  Conference Chair:  Marcos Aguilera, HP Labs
  Program Chair:  James Aspnes, Yale
• Twentieth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 23-26 in Brighton, England.
  General Chair:  Andrew Herbert, Microsoft Cambridge Research
  Program Chair:  Ken Birman, Cornell University
• Mark Weiser Award presented to Tom Anderson, University of Washington
• Third International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held November 2-4 in San Diego, CA.
  General Chair:  Jason Redi, BBN Technologies
  Program Chairs:  Hari Balakrishnan, MIT, and Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research

2006

• Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University, takes over as Editor of Operating Systems Review (replacing Bill Waite, who had been serving as Editor since 1972!)
• Membership dues are raised from $15 to $20 per year.
• First EuroSys Conference held April 18-21 in Leuven, Belgium.
  General Chair:  Yolande Berbers, K. U. Leuven
  Program Chair:  Will Zwaenepoel, EPFL
• Second International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)held June 14-16 in Ottawa, Canada.
  General Chair:  Hans Boehm, HP Labs
  Program Chair:  David Grove, IBM Research
• Twenty-fifth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held July 23-26 in Denver, CO.
  Conference Chair:   Eric Ruppert, York University
  Program Chair:   Dahlia Malkhi, Microsoft Research
• Twelfth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held October 21-25 in San Jose, CA.
  General Chair:   John Shen, Intel
  Program Chair:   Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University
• Fourth International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held October 31-November 3 in Boulder, CO.
  General Chair:  Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth University
  Program Chairs:  Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, and John Heidemann, USC
• Mark Weiser Award presented to Dawson Engler, Stanford University

2007

• New officers elected:
  Chairman:  Doug Terry, Microsoft Research
  Vice Chairman:  Frank Bellosa, University of Karlsruhe
  Secretary-Treasurer:   Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University
  Jeanna Matthews also remains newsletter Editor, and Thomas Bressoud, Denison University, becomes the Associate Editor.
  Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto, is appointed Information Director.
• Second EuroSys Conference held March 21-23 in Lisbon, Portugal.
  General Chair:  Paulo Ferreira, Technical University of Lisbon
  Program Chair:  Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich
• Third International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)held June 13-15 in San Diego, CA.
  General Chair:  Chandra Krintz, U. C. Santa Barbara
  Program Chairs:  Steven Hand, University of Cambridge, and David Tarditi, Microsoft Research
• Twenty-sixth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)held August 12-15 in Portland, OR.
  Conference Chair:   Indranil Gupta, UIUC
  Program Chair:   Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich
• Twenty-first Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 14-17 in Stevenson, WA.
  General Chair:  Tom Bressoud, Denison University
  Program Chair:  Frans Kaashoek, MIT
• Mark Weiser Award presented to Peter Chen, University of Michigan
• Fifth International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) held November 6-9 in Sydney, Australia.
  General Chair:  Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales
  Program Chairs:  Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research, and Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt University

2008

• Barbara Liskov receives ACM Turing Award
• Thirteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 1-5 in Seattle, WA.
  General Chair:   Susan Eggers, University of Washington
  Program Chair:   James Larus, Microsoft Research
• Fourth International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE)held March 5-7 in Seattle, WA.
  General Chair:  David Gregg, Trinity College Dublin
  Program Chairs:  Vikram Adve, University of Illinois, and Brian Bershad, University of Washington
• Third EuroSys Conference held March 31-April 4 in Glasgow, Scotland.
  General Chair:  Joe Sventek, University of Glasglow
  Program Chair:  Steven Hand, University of Cambridge
• Mark Weiser award presented to Peter Druschel, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

2009

• Ed Lazowska receives ACM Distinguished Service Award
• Fourteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 7-11 in Washington, DC, USA.
  General Chair:   Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia
  Program Chair:   Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University
• International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 11-13 in Washington, DC, USA.
  General Chair:  Tony Hosking, Purdue University
  Program Chairs:  David F. Bacon, IBM Research and Orran Krieger, VMware
• EuroSys Conference held 1-3 April in Nuremberg, Germany.
  General Chair:  Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
  Program Chair:  John Wilkes, Google Mt View
• Twenty-Second Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 14-17 in Big Sky, Montana, USA.
  General Chair:  Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University
  Program Chair:  Thomas Anderson, University of Washington
  Keynote:  Barbara Liskov's Turing Award Lecture.
• Mark Weiser award presented to Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley

2010

• Fifteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 13-17 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  General Chair:  James C. Hoe, CMU
  Program Chair:   Vikram S. Adve, UIUC
• International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 17-19 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  General Chair:  Marc E. Fiuczynski, Princeton University
  Program Chairs:  Emery Berger, UMass Amherst and Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia
• EuroSys Conference held 13-16 April in Paris, France.
  General Chair:  Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes
  Program Chair:  Gilles Muller, INRIA
• Mark Weiser award presented to Robert Morris, MIT

2011

• New officers elected:
  Chairman:  Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Clarkson
  Vice Chairman:  George Candea, EPFL
  Secretary-Treasurer:  Dilma Da Silva, IBM Research
  Muli Ben-Yehuda, Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, is appointed Information Director
• Tom Bressoud has expanded his role with OSR from associate editor to co- editor.
• Sixteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 5-11 in Newport Beach, CA, USA.
  General Chair:   Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside
  Program Chair:   Todd Mowry, CMU
• International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 9-11 in Newport Beach, CA, USA.
  General Chair:  Erez Petrank, Technion
  Program Chairs:  Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
• EuroSys Conference held 10-13 April in Salzburg, Austria.
  General Chair:  Christoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg
  Program Chair:  Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales
• Twenty-Third Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 23-26 in Cascais, Portugal.
  General Chair:  Ted Wobber, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
  Program Chair:  Peter Druschel, MPI-SWS
• Mark Weiser award presented to Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research

2012

• Seventeenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 3-7 in London, UK.
  General Chair:   Tim Harris, Microsoft Research
  Program Chair:   Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester
• International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 3-4 in London, UK.
  General Chair:  Steve Hand, U. Cambridge
  Program chair:  Dilma da Silva, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
• EuroSys Conference held 10-13 April in Bern, Switzerland.
  General Chair:  Pascal Felber, University of Neuchâtel
  Program Chairs:  Frank Bellosa, KIT and Herbert Bos, VU University
• Mark Weiser award presented to Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Google

2013

• Eighteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 16--20 in Houston, Texas.
  General Chair:   Vivek Sarkar, Rice University
  Program Chair:   Rastislav Bodik, University of California -- Berkeley
• International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 16-17 in Houston, Texas.
  General Chair:  Steve Muir, VMware
  Program Chairs:  Steve Blackburn, Australian National University; Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales
• EuroSys Conference held 14-17 April in Prague, Czech Republic.
  General Chair:  Zdenek Hanzalek, Czech Technical University Prague; Hermann Hartig, Technische Universitat Dresden
  Program Chair:  Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Frans Kaashoek, MIT
• Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 4-7 in Monterey, CA, USA.
  General Chair:  Michael Kaminsky, Intel Labs
  Program Chair:  Mike Dahlin, Google and UT Austin
• Mark Weiser award presented to Stefan Savage, University of California - San Diego
• Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award presented to Mona Attariyan, University of Michigan
• Shan Lu, University of Wisconsin -- Madison, is appointed Information Director

2014

• Nineteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 1-5 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  General Chair:   Rajeev Balasubramonian, Univ. of Utah; Al Davis, Univ. of Utah
  Program Chair:   Sarita Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 1-2 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  General Chair:  Martin Hirzel, IBM Research
  Program chair:  Erez Petrank and Dan Tsafrir, Technion
• EuroSys Conference held 13-16 April in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  General Chair:  Dick Bulterman, CWI; Herbert Bos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Program Chairs:  Ant Rowstron, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Peter Druschel, MPI-SWS
• Mark Weiser award presented to Eddie Kohler, Harvard University
• Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award presented to Austin T. Clements, MIT

2015

• New officers elected:
  Chairman:  Robbert Van Renesse, Cornell University
  Vice Chairman:  Shan Lu, University of Chicago
  Secretary-Treasurer:  Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM Research
• Twentieth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held March 14--18 in Istanbul, Turkey.
  General Chair:   Ozcan Ozturk, Bilkent University; Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing
  Program Chair:   Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester
• International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held March 14-15 in Istanbul, Turkey.
  General Chair:  Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech
  Program Chairs:  Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto; Bjarne Steensgaard, Microsoft
• EuroSys Conference held 21-24 April in Bordeaux, France.
  General Chair:  Laurent Reveillere, University of Bordeaux
  Program Chair:  Tim Harris, Oracle Labs, UK; Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA
• Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) held October 4-7 in Monterey, CA, USA.
  General Chair:  Ethan L. Miller, Univ. of California Santa Cruz
  Program Chair:  Steven Hand, Google
• Mark Weiser award presented to Yuanyuan Zhou, University of California - San Diego.
• Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award presented to Cristiano Giuffrida for his dissertation "Safe and Automatic Live Update" at the Vrije University, Netherlands.
• The Hall of Fame Award presented to R. A. Meyer and L. H. Seawright for their paper "A virtual machine time-sharing system" published in the IBM Systems Journal 9(3), September 1970.
• ChinaSys becomes an ACM SIGOPS chapter, with a formal name called ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys.
• Håvard D. Johansen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, is appointed Information Director

2016

• Twenty-First International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held April 2--6 in Atlanta, GA, USA.
  General Chair:   Tom Conte, Georgia Tech
  Program Chair:   Yuanyuan Zhou, University of California, San Diego
• EuroSys Conference held 18-21 April in London, UK.
  General Chairs:  Cristian Cadar and Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
  Program Chair:  Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs, USA; and Rodrigo Rodrigues, Instituto Superior Técnico (Univ. Lisbon) and INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal
• International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) held April 2-3 in Atlanta, GA, USA.
  General Chair:  Vishakha Gupta, Intel.
  Program Chairs:  Don Porter, Stony Brook University.
• Mark Weiser award presented to Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research Cambridge.
• Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award presented to Vijay Chidambaram for his dissertaion "Orderless and Eventually Durable File Systems" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• The Hall of Fame Award presented to Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber; for their paper "Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data", published at OSDI 2006.