The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Technical Association. It was founded in 1975, focusing primarily on the study and development of Unix and similar systems. It has since grown into a respected organization among practitioners, developers, and researchers of computer operating systems more generally.

USENIX has a special technical group for system administrators, SAGE: The People Who Make IT Work.

It sponsors several conferences and workshops each year, most notably the USENIX Annual Technical Conference and, with SAGE, LISA, a conference devoted to system administration.

2002-2004 officers

• President: Marshall Kirk McKusick
• Vice President: Michael B. Jones
• Secretary: Peter Honeyman
• Treasurer: Lois Bennett
• Directors:
  • Tina Darmohray
  • John Gilmore
  • Jon "maddog" Hall
  • Avi Rubin

2004-2006 officers

The following people take office June 27, 2004:

• President: Mike Jones
• Vice President: Clem Cole
• Secretary: Alva Couch
• Treasurer: Theodore Ts'o
• Directors:
  • Matt Blaze
  • Jon "maddog" Hall
  • Geoff Halprin
  • Marshall Kirk McKusick

See also

• SAGE (organization)
• LISA (conference)
• Marshall Kirk McKusick
• Unix

External links

• The Advanced Computing Systems Organization
• The System Administrators Guild