ACM SIGOPS
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History
In 1965, Henriette Avram 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.
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Conferences
ACM SIGOPS sponsors the following industry conferences, some independently and some in partnership with industry participants such as ACM SIGPLAN, USENIX, Oracle, Microsoft, and VMWare.
- 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 Cloud Computing
- 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 a 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)
- Richard Rashid
- Dennis Ritchie (2002)
Journal
ACM SIGOPS publishes the Operating Systems Review (OSR), a forum for topics including operating systems and architecture for multiprogramming, multiprocessing, and time-sharing, and computer system modeling and analysis.

