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  USENIX Annual Technical Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USENIX '01 — Boston, Massachusetts, June 25–30, 2001.
USENIX 1997 — Anaheim, California, January 6–10, 1997.
Prior to 1995 there were two USENIX Technical Conferences held each year, with one held in the summer and the other during the winter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USENIX_Annual_Technical_Conference   (250 words)

  
 USENIX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
USENIX has a special technical group for system administrators, SAGE: The People Who Make IT Work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USENIX   (181 words)

  
 GNU Project and Kerberos Developers Receive Prestigious USENIX Achievement Awards - GNU Project - Free Software ...
The announcement was made just before the keynote address at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference where the developers of Kerberos were also awarded the Software Tools User Group (STUG) award.
The USENIX Annual Technical Conference continues in Boston, Massachusetts from June 28 - 30, 2001.
USENIX conferences are the essential meeting grounds for the presentation and discussion of technical advances in all aspects of computing systems.
www.gnu.org /press/2001-06-28-USENIX.html   (756 words)

  
 USENIX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The shirt shown in the first picture shows the original Phil Foglio art that was the basis for the shirt shown in the second picture, commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the Usenix organization.
The following story of the origin of the tenth anniversary Usenix T-shirt was related by Mike O'Brien, who was living in Chicago in 1976 when this story begins.
The BSD daemon showed up again on the shirt shown in the second picture for the Usenix multimedia conference held in 1991 in Nashville Tennessee.
www.mckusick.com /beastie/shirts/usenix.html   (673 words)

  
 USENIX 2005: Unix in Southern California - OSNews.com
USENIX was started in 1975 as 'The Unix Users Group' and has been holding regular conferences ever since (along with many other activities, of course).
The USENIX conference is the place to go if you want to find out about topics such as advanced system administration or the latest filesystem research projects.
USENIX is a blend of academic presentations and socialization.
osnews.com /story.php?news_id=10294   (924 words)

  
 USENIX 2001 BRINGS WORLD'S BEST MINDS TO BOSTON, MASS
USENIX 2001 BRINGS WORLD'S BEST MINDS TO BOSTON, MASS Berkeley, CA -- The USENIX Association announced today the addition of Cynthia Breazeal, Researcher for MIT Media Labs, to its acclaimed USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2001 program, to be held on June 25 - 30, 2001 in the Boston Marriott Copley Place.
USENIX 2001's program boasts an international flavor, attracting innovators such as Greg Lehey from Australia and Rik van Riel from Brazil, as well as researchers and visionaries from industry giants such as IBM, ATandT, Bell Labs, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Harvard University, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon University.
"USENIX talks will present open source technologies driving the Internet today, along with obscure research topics which may well become the TCP/IP of tomorrow." The USENIX Annual Technical Conference is also notable for it intensive tutorial classes taught by industry gurus.
lwn.net /2001/0510/a/usenix.php3   (1031 words)

  
 Charles Babbage Institute: RESEARCH PROGRAM> Current research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, is a Delaware non-profit, non-stock corporation that has brought together information technology experts, including engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians since May 1974.
USENIX was originally founded as the UNIX User’s Group at a conference at Columbia University in May 1974.
USENIX today touts its commitment to practical problem-solving activities, rapid communication for research and innovation, and other community-building undertakings.
www.cbi.umn.edu /shp/entries/usenix.html   (313 words)

  
 The USENIX Association
The USENIX Association and its members are dedicated to problem-solving with a practical bias and fostering innovation and research that works.
USENIX annually sponsors a broad-topic technical conference, a systems administration (LISA) conference, and a variety of smaller conferences, symposia and workshops on such topics as operating systems design and implementation, object-oriented technologies, electronic commerce, domain-specific languages, and systems security.
USENIX and its members value highly the research in the computing systems arena that is generated in colleges and universities.
www.cra.org /CRN/html/9803/affiliate/cd.3_3_m.shtml   (933 words)

  
 Usenix 1999 Trip Report
Usenix has its origins as the first UNIX user group.
Usenix sponsors a large number of conferences but its annual technical conference is one of the highlights.
One of the nice things about the Usenix conference is the CD-ROM you get with the proceedings which also includes the course notes for all the tutorials.
cq-pan.cqu.edu.au /david-jones/Publications/Trip_Reports/Usenix_1999   (2121 words)

  
 USENIX Conference in San Antonio, June 9-14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
University students and staff are invited to meet with peers and experts on the latest developments in computing research at the USENIX 2003 Annual Technical Conference June 9-14 in San Antonio.
Since 1975 the USENIX Association has brought together engineers, system administrators, scientists and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world.
USENIX conferences have become essential meeting grounds for presentation and discussion of the most advanced information on the developments of all aspects of computing systems.
www.utexas.edu /its/news/its-headlines/052003/usenix.html   (250 words)

  
 Usenix group disputes SCO position on open-source
The Usenix letter comes in response to a letter (download PDF) sent by SCO to Congress last month calling Linux and open-source software a threat to the security and economy of the U.S. (see story).
Usenix's members use open-source software "to get their jobs done, and we feel they should have as many choices as possible to choose from," McKusick said.
Usenix, which was created in 1975, is a computing group that provides discussion and training on technical matters.
www.computerworld.com /softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,90612,00.html   (1571 words)

  
 Usenix draws top technologists - O'Reilly Emerging Telephony
Usenix, the classic conference of Unix research and practice, pulled off a satisfying event in Boston this year.
Turn-out was modest (about 700 people registered, and the show never seemed crowded except when food was served), but the number of famous and significant leaders in the Unix and free software world I saw walking the hallways was impressive, and the line-up on the podiums was even more so.
Hall is promoting a chair in Lions’s name at the university he taught at in Australia, and is auctioning off on eBay a copy of the book signed by many of the creators and luminaries of the Unix and Linux world.
oreillynet.com /etel/blog/2006/06/usenix_draws_top_technologists.html   (1987 words)

  
 USENIX CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The USENIX Events Calendar has program infromation for current conferences and Calls for Papers for future conferences.
USENIX values students and the research in the advanced computing systems arena that is generated in colleges and universities.
USENIX student stipends cover travel, accommodations and registration fees for full-time students interested in attending USENIX conferences and workshops.
www.cs.wisc.edu /~dparter/usenix.html   (243 words)

  
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www.cs.cmu.edu /~srini/Papers/publications/2004.Usenix.multihome/strings.bib   (2297 words)

  
 USENIX Honors GNOME and KDE Architects for Contributions to Open Source Community
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, celebrating its 30th anniversary, honored GNOME co- founder Miguel de Icaza and KDE creator Mattias Ettrich with its Software Tools User Group (STUG) award for their accomplishments in developing user friendly graphical user interfaces for the open source desktop.
The STUG award, which recognizes significant contributions to the open source reusable code-base, selected de Icaza and Ettrich for their achievements in creating a set of libraries, tools, and applications which are portable and run across several different operating system platforms and hardware architectures.
The award was announced at the 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-20-2005/0003439706&EDATE=   (319 words)

  
 USENIX Scholarship Report for Brad Chamberlain
For the 2000 calendar year, the USENIX Association granted me a scholarship to support my graduate studies in the development of compiler technology for parallel computing.
With the support of the USENIX scholarship, I was able to complete some of the initial work in this area during the past year.
The third component of my work under the USENIX scholarship was to co-advise two graduate students during their qualifying projects.
www.cs.washington.edu /homes/brad/usenix   (917 words)

  
 conference.usenix.org
The USENIX confernece network is provided to facilitate the free exchange of ideas with other attendees and colleagues unable to attend.
The wired and wireless networks provided by USENIX at this conference are for the use of conference attendees only, subject to the following conditions:
USENIX strongly recommends that all users encrypt their transmissions.
conference.usenix.org   (304 words)

  
 CFP - USENIX SECURITY '04 - AUGUST 9-13, 2004 - SAN DIEGO, CA
The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in security of computer systems.
Papers whose contributions are primarily in the area of new cryptographic algorithms or protocols, cryptanalysis, electronic commerce primitives, etc, may not be appropriate for this conference.
The USENIX Security Symposium, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to another conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously published elsewhere, or subsequently published within 12 months of acceptance at the Symposium.
www.crypto.com /security04cfp.html   (1003 words)

  
 Notes on the 1998 USENIX Technical Conference
The USENIX Technical Conference is held annually by the USENIX Association.
Although USENIX started as a UNIX users' group, its scope has expanded over the years to embrace various advanced topics in computing systems and networking.
Proceedings are published in two volumes: one containing the full text of each refereed paper, the other containing whatever the speaker provided (often just slides) for each invited talk, and this time also slides and sometimes papers from the Freenix talks.
www.cita.utoronto.ca /~norman/conf/98usenix.html   (1613 words)

  
 USENIX Computing Systems Guest Editorial
The papers were culled from the 2nd USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS), which was held in Toronto, Canada on June 17-21, 1996.
Like the half-dozen USENIX C++ Conferences from which it evolved, COOTS is dedicated to showcasing advanced R&D work on object-oriented technologies and software systems.
Applications can use either strong consistency (where changes to shared objects are made visible to all cached copies immediately and in the same order as the changes were made) or causal consistency (where newly cached objects are guaranteed to reflect causally preceding events).
www.cs.wustl.edu /~schmidt/UCS-editorial.html   (1223 words)

  
 USENIX Technical Conference
Yoonho Park (Ed.): Proceedings of the General Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference, June 6-10, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts, Conference Proceeding.
USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference, January 17-21, 1994, San Francisco, California, Conference Proceedings.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/conf/usenix/index.html   (462 words)

  
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And that's what this conference is all about." The USENIX Annual Technical Conference continues in Boston, Massachusetts from June 28 - 30, 2001.
About the USENIX Association USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association.
For more information about the USENIX Association, visit http://www.usenix.org About the Free Software Foundation: The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs.
www.gnu.org /press/2001-06-28-USENIX.txt   (698 words)

  
 LXer: USENIX Auction To Help Establish UNIX Teaching Position
In the ODT document you attached, it states, "USENIX is matching contributions received for the John Lions Fund up to a $250,000 total limit, through December 31, 2006." This implies accepting donations outside the auction, too.
USENIX is matching contributions received for the John Lions Fund up to a $250,000 total limit, through December 31, 2006.
Upon receipt and deposit of the check USENIX will send the book to you, with a receipt for the amount of the donation (the bid, minus the price of the book, local taxes (if any), shipping and Ebay fees) which will be tax deductible in the United States.
lxer.com /module/newswire/view/62016/index.html   (1737 words)

  
 BibTeX bibliography usenix2000.bib
The %%% companion bibliography, compsys.bib, %%% provides complete coverage of Computing %%% Systems, the journal of the USENIX %%% Association.
The old usenix.* files were %%% then withdrawn from distribution.
A search on 24-Feb-1996 of %%% the OCLC PapersFirst and Proceedings %%% database produced 974 tentative entries, %%% but of them, only 19 were new, and minor %%% modifications were made in a dozen or so others.
www.math.utah.edu /ftp/pub/tex/bib/usenix2000.html   (413 words)

  
 USENIX 2005: Unix in Southern California (day two) - OSNews.com
During that time, a decision was made to make USENIX a more academic conference.
I can't really comment on that since I wasn't attending USENIX back then, but I think it is food for thought.
There is a balance between academia and industry, and it is possible that USENIX may be too far over on the academic side.
www.osnews.com /story.php?news_id=10306   (1270 words)

  
 TechNetCast - Linux BOF at USENIX 1999
In his remarks at USENIX 1999 Linus Torvalds comments on the State of Linux -with an emphasis on kernel evelopment- and fields questions from the audience.
So [today] I'll start off with just a few short words on the state of the kernel and then [cover some of] what we are working on right now and then [throw in] a few short sentences about what the bigger plan [is].
I remember the first time I went to USENIX… I was really happy that I had done this small Unix clone thing because it meant that even though it wasn't very well known at the time I actually got to be in the inside group.
technetcast.ddj.com /tnc_program.html?program_id=17   (4975 words)

  
 26th Annual USENIX Technical Conference (USENIX'2001)
For more information and to register, visit: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/ ===================================================================== The 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference is sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association.
USENIX ¹01 provides tutorials that help master new and important skills and opportunities, and is a place to meet peers and experts to share solutions to common problems.
USENIX ¹01 offers professional-level tutorials, three technical tracks, an AFS workshop, a GNOME developers conference, an information-laden vendor exhibition, Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions, Work-in-Progress Reports, parties and get-togethers for sys admins, programmers, systems engineers and researchers.
www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be /~dirk/ada-belgium/events/01/010625-usenix.html   (299 words)

  
 KDE Receives USENIX STUG Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
On Tuesday at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was awarded the Software Tools User Group award, shared jointly with Miguel de Icaza of GNOME.
For thirty years, the USENIX Association has brought together the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world.
In the award speech the Usenix Board director mentioned that only when Matthias Ettrich, together with an ever growing number of open minded developers and contributors, started the KDE project that the inferior UNIX GUIs started to compete with and overtake those of other platforms.
dot.kde.org /1113628981   (3691 words)

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