ACM SIGOPS

Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS)
FocusOperating Systems
Area served
International
Websitewww.sigops.org

ACM SIGOPS is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, an international community of students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners associated with research and development related to operating systems.[1] The organization sponsors international conferences related to computer systems, operating systems, computer architectures, distributed computing, and virtual environments. In addition, the organization offers multiple awards recognizing outstanding participants in the field, including the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award, in honor of Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of the C programming language and Unix operating system.[2]

  1. ^ "Special Interest Group on Operating Systems". SIGOPS. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  2. ^ Campbell-Kelly, Martin (13 October 2011). "Dennis Ritchie obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2017.