The ACM SIGOPS (Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) Mark Weiser Award is awarded to an individual who has shown creativity and innovation in

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

research. The recipients began their career no earlier than 20 years prior to nomination. The special-interest-group-level award was created in 2001 and is named after

Mark Weiser Mark D. Weiser (July 23, 1952 – April 27, 1999) was an American computer scientist and chief technology officer (CTO) at Xerox PARC. Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing, a term he coined in 1988. Within S ...

, the father of

ubiquitous computing Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing imp ...

. The winners of this award have been: * 2024: George Candea, EPFL * 2023: Matei Zaharia, UC Berkeley * 2022: David Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University * 2021: Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University * 2020: Jason Flinn,

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

and Facebook * 2019:

Ion Stoica Ion Stoica (born ) is a Romanian–American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and co-director of AMPL ...

, UC Berkeley * 2018:

Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau Andrea Carol Arpaci-Dusseau (also published as Andrea Dusseau) is an American computer scientist interested in operating systems, file systems, data storage, distributed computing, and computer science education. She is a professor of computer ...

and

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is the Grace Wahba professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former chair of the Computer Sciences department. He co-leads a research group with Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau. He and Andre ...

, University of Wisconsin-Madison * 2017: Nickolai Zeldovich, MIT * 2016: Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research (Cambridge) * 2015: Yuanyuan Zhou, UCSD * 2014:

Eddie Kohler __NOTOC__ Eddie Kohler is a computer scientist specializing in networks and operating systems. He is currently a professor of computer science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Prior to Harvard, he was a p ...

, Harvard University * 2013:

Stefan Savage Stefan Savage (born 1969) is an American computer science researcher, currently a Professor in the Systems and Networking Group at the University of California, San Diego. There, he holds the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Information and Computer ...

, UCSD * 2012:

Jeff Dean Jeffrey Adgate Dean (born July 23, 1968) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. Since 2018, he has been the lead of Google AI. He was appointed Google's chief scientist in 2023 after the merger of DeepMind and Google Brain into ...

and

Sanjay Ghemawat Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Google in the Systems Infrastructure Group. Ghemawat's work at Google, much of it in close collabo ...

, Google * 2011: Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research * 2010:

Robert Tappan Morris Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet. Morris was prosecuted for releasing th ...

, MIT * 2009: Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley/Google * 2008:

Peter Druschel Peter Druschel (born 22 April 1959 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German computer scientist and the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken. Education and career Druschel studied electrical engineering, specia ...

, MPI * 2007: Peter M. Chen, University of Michigan * 2006:

Dawson Engler Dawson R. Engler is an American computer scientist and an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. Career After graduating from University of Arizona, Engler earned his Ph.D. from the Massachuse ...

, Stanford University * 2005: Thomas E. Anderson, University of Washington * 2004: Brian N. Bershad, University of Washington and Google * 2003:

Mike Burrows Mike Burrows (17 April 1943 – 15 August 2022) was an English bicycle designer from Norwich, England. Burrows is best known by the general public for his collaborative work with the design of the track carbon-fibre Lotus 108 time trial bi ...

, Google * 2002:

Mendel Rosenblum Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University and co-founder of VMware. Early life Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He attended the University of Virginia, where he received a degree in mathematics. Whi ...

, Stanford University * 2001:

Frans Kaashoek Marinus Frans (Frans) Kaashoek (born 1965, Leiden) is a Dutch computer scientist, entrepreneur, and Charles Piper Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography Kaashoek received his MA in 1988 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer ...

, MIT

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{{reflist American science and technology awards Computer science awards Awards established in 2001

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