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 USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association | |
| Formation | 1975[1] |
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| Headquarters | Berkeley, California, United States |
President | Amy Rich |
| Website | www |
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.[2] It organizes several conferences in these fields.[2]
- ^ Salus, Peter H. (25 April 2008). "USENIX History : Thirtieth Anniversary, USENIX Association". USENIX. Archived from the original on 21 November 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
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 room at Columbia in May 1974. But there were "about 40 people from 20 institutions" at the 1975 meeting.
- ^ a b "About USENIX". USENIX. 2017-04-21. Retrieved 2022-05-21.