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, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...

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 a 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 Silicon Vall ...

, 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 anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing can occur using ...

. The winners of this award have been: * 2022: David Andersen, Carnegie Melon University * 2021:

Michael J. Freedman Michael J. Freedman is an American computer scientist who is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he works on distributed systems, networking, and security. He is also the cofounder of database company ...

, Princeton University * 2020: Jason Flinn,

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and Facebook * 2019:

Ion Stoica Ion Stoica 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 AMPLab. He co-fo ...

, UC Berkeley * 2018: Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, 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 Computer network, 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 H ...

, Harvard University * 2013: Stefan Savage, UCSD * 2012: Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, 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 the ...

, 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 founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken. Education and career Druschel studied electrical engineering specializi ...

, MPI * 2007: Peter M. Chen, University of Michigan * 2006: Dawson Engler, 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 a British bicycle designer from Norwich, England. Burrow is best known for his collaborative work with the design of the track carbon-fibre Lotus 108 time trial bicycle manufactured by Lot ...

, Google * 2002: Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University * 2001: Frans Kaashoek, MIT

References

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

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