USENIX

USENIX is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization based in Berkeley, California and founded in 1975 that supports advanced computing systems, operating system (OS), and computer networking research. It organizes several highly respected conferences in these fields. Its stated mission is to foster technical excellence and innovation, support and disseminate research with a practical bias, provide a neutral forum for discussion of technical issues, and encourage computing outreach into the community at large. USENIX was established in 1975 under the name "Unix Users Group," focusing primarily on the study and development of the Unix OS family and similar systems. In June 1977, a lawyer from AT&T Corporation informed the group that they could not use the word "Unix" in their name as it was a trademark of Western Electric (the manufacturing arm of AT&T until 1995), which led to the change of name to USENIX. It has since grown into a respected organization among practitioners, developers, and researchers of computer operating systems more generally. Since its founding, it has published a technical journal titled ;login:. USENIX was started as a technical organization. As commercial interest grew, a number of separate groups started in parallel, most notably the Software Tools Users Group (STUG), a technical adjunct for Unix-like tools and interface on non-Unix operating systems, and /usr/group, a commercially oriented user group. USENIX's founding President was Lou Katz. USENIX hosts numerous conferences and symposia each year, including: USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) (was bi-annual till 2020) USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC) (co-located with OSDI since 2021) SREcon, a conference for engineers focused on site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale LISA, the Large Installation System Administration Conference Enigma, a conference focused on practical privacy and security expertise and knowledge sharing in a welcoming and inclusive environment USENIX publishes a magazine called ;login: that appears four times a year.