USENIX

USENIX is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofitmembership organization based in Berkeley, California and founded in 1975 that supports advanced computing systems, operating system (OS), and computer networking research.^[2] It organizes several conferences in these fields.^[2]

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.^[3] Since its founding, it has published a technical journal titled ;login:.^[4]

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 interfaces on non-Unix operating systems, and /usr/group, a commercially oriented user group.

USENIX's founding President was Lou Katz.^[5]

USENIX hosts numerous conferences and symposia each year, including:

• 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)
• 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^[6]
• Enigma, a conference focused on practical privacy and security expertise and knowledge sharing in a welcoming and inclusive environment

Until 2025, it also hosted an Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC).

USENIX publishes a magazine called ;login: that appears four times a year.^[7] 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.

Entre 1988 y 1996, USENIX publicó la revista trimestral Computing Systems , sobre la teoría e implementación de sistemas informáticos avanzados en la tradición UNIX. Fue publicada inicialmente por la editorial de la Universidad de California y posteriormente por la editorial del MIT. Los números han sido digitalizados y están disponibles en línea. ^{[ 8 ]}

Las conferencias de USENIX se volvieron de acceso abierto en 2008. ^{[ 9 ]} Desde 2011, han proporcionado grabaciones de audio y video de presentaciones de artículos y charlas de conferencias en sus materiales de acceso abierto, de forma gratuita.

Este premio, también llamado premio "Llama", se entrega desde 1993. ^{[ 10 ]}

• 2025 Rik Farrow
• Arnold Robbins 2024
• 2023 Steven M. Bellovin , Matt Blaze y Susan Landau
• 2022 Warren Toomey
• 2021 (sin premio)
• 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
• 2002 James Gosling
• 2001 El Proyecto GNU y todos sus colaboradores
• 2000 W. Richard Stevens
• 1999 "La comunidad del sistema X Window en general"
• 1998 Tim Berners-Lee
• 1997 Brian W. Kernighan
• 1996 El Grupo de Usuarios de Herramientas de Software ( Dennis E. Hall , Deborah Scherrer , Joe Sventek )
• 1995 La creación de USENET por Jim Ellis , Steven M. Bellovin y Tom Truscott
• Tecnologías de redes de 1994
• 1993 Berkeley UNIX

• AUUG
• LISA (conferencia)
• Mariscal Kirk McKusick
• LISA SIG: Anteriormente SAGE (organización)
• Unix

• USENIX: Asociación de Sistemas Informáticos Avanzados
• Canal oficial de USENIX en YouTube