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June 18, 1975. CUNY in Manhattan. Mel Ferentz runs the first USENIX conference. Of course, it wasn't called USENIX then, it was a UNIX users' group, until the lawyers at AT&T; got tough about that (tm). And it wasn't the first meeting, either, as Lou Katz had run a small meeting in a conference
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in 2008. Since 2011, they have provided audio and video recordings of paper presentations and conference talks in their open-access materials, free of charge.
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USENIX was started as a technical organization. As commercial interest grew, a number of separate groups started in parallel, most notably the
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SREcon, a conference for engineers focused on site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale
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Enigma, a conference focused on practical privacy and security expertise and knowledge sharing in a welcoming and inclusive environment
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USENIX was established in 1975 under the name "Unix Users Group," focusing primarily on the study and development of the
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room at Columbia in May 1974. But there were "about 40 people from 20 institutions" at the 1975 meeting.
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that appears four times a year. From 2021, it has become an all-digital magazine and openly accessible.
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content informs the community about practically relevant research, useful tools, and relevant events.
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informed the group that they could not use the word "Unix" in their name as it was a trademark of
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This award, also called the "Flame" award, has been presented since 1993.
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USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
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USENIX hosts numerous conferences and symposia each year, including:
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Computing systems: A quarterly publication of the USENIX Association
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USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
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research. It organizes several conferences in these fields.
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OS family and similar systems. In June 1977, a lawyer from
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USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
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From 1988–1996, USENIX published the quarterly journal
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Large Installation System Administration Conference
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