ACM SIGOPS is the

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's Special Interest Group on

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s, an international community of students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners associated with

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and development related to operating systems. The organization sponsors prestigious 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 renowned

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History

In 1965,

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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.

Conferences

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

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, and

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. * APSYS: Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems * ASPLOS: International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems * EuroSys: European Conference on Computer Systems * OSDI: USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation * PODC: Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing * SOCC: International Symposium on

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* SOSP: Symposium on Operating Systems Principles * SYSTOR: ACM International Systems and Storage Conference * VEE: International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Hall of Fame

ACM SIGOPS includes
Hall of Fame Award
started in 2005, recognizing influential papers from ten or more years in the past. Notable recipients include: * Leslie Lamport (2013) * Barbara Liskov (2012) *

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* Dennis Ritchie (2002)

Journal

ACM SIGOPS publishes the Operating Systems Review (OSR), a forum for topics including operating systems and architecture for

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multiprocessing Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. There ar ...

, and

time-sharing In computing, time-sharing is the sharing of a computing resource among many users at the same time by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking.DEC Timesharing (1965), by Peter Clark, The DEC Professional, Volume 1, Number 1 Its emergence ...

, and computer system modeling and analysis.

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