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ACM SIGOPS
Name	ACM SIGOPS
Type	Special Interest Group
Founded	1965
Headquarters	New York City
Parent organization	Association for Computing Machinery
Fields	Computer science, Computer engineering

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ACM SIGOPS ACM SIGOPS is a Special Interest Group within the Association for Computing Machinery focused on operating systems and systems research. It connects researchers, engineers, and educators associated with institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Cambridge, and interacts with industry organizations including Intel Corporation, IBM, Google, Microsoft Corporation, and Amazon (company). SIGOPS-affiliated work has influenced projects and technologies at Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, DEC, Bell Labs Research, and standards bodies such as IEEE and IETF.

History

SIGOPS traces its roots to early meetings of practitioners from Bell Labs, MITRE Corporation, and Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1960s. Early influences included operating systems such as Multics, UNIX, and experimental systems from Project MAC and Berkeley Software Distribution at University of California, Berkeley. Key historical milestones relate to conferences and workshops held alongside gatherings at ACM SIGPLAN and ACM SIGCOMM, and collaborations with labs like Xerox PARC and universities such as Princeton University and University of Toronto. The community has intersected with figures and projects linked to Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy, Barbara Liskov, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Leslie Lamport, and with initiatives connected to ARPANET, NSF, DARPA, and the rise of microkernel research at University of Glasgow and University of Pennsylvania.

SIGOPS emphasizes the advancement of operating systems research involving topics pioneered at MIT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and CMU. Activities include fostering work related to technologies such as virtual memory developments from Princeton University labs, distributed systems research influenced by Google and Microsoft Research, and concurrency and synchronization work exemplified by efforts at University of Cambridge and ETH Zurich. The group promotes collaboration among members affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Riken, and corporate research centers like Intel Labs and IBM Research. Outreach includes support for students at events associated with SIGGRAPH and cooperation with standards bodies including IEEE Computer Society and IETF.

SIGOPS sponsors and co-sponsors flagship conferences historically linked to venues such as USENIX events and academic sites at MIT and Stanford. Principal conferences include gatherings related to systems research that often overlap with SOSP, OSDI, and workshops with connections to EuroSys, ASPLOS, SOSP (Symposium on Operating Systems Principles), NSDI, and FAST. Workshops and symposia attract participants from institutions like Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and University of Washington, and industry teams from Facebook, Apple Inc., Netflix, and Alibaba Group. SIGOPS events have been held in cities including San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Palo Alto, and international sites like Zurich, Munich, Beijing, and Tokyo.

SIGOPS publishes proceedings and newsletters distributed among researchers at ACM Digital Library partner institutions and libraries like Library of Congress and university collections at Oxford University and Cambridge University Library. Typical outputs encompass conference proceedings connected to SOSP and OSDI and association with journals where authors from Princeton University, University of Toronto, ETH Zurich, and UCL often publish. The SIG’s communication channels intersect with periodicals and outlets linked to Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, and workshop volumes that include contributions from researchers at Columbia University, Cornell University, Brown University, Duke University, and Johns Hopkins University.

SIGOPS recognizes contributions through awards often presented at major conferences, alongside honors from organizations such as Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, Royal Society, and national academies like the National Academy of Engineering and Academia Europaea. Distinguished contributors affiliated with SIGOPS-related work have received prizes including ACM A.M. Turing Award, IEEE John von Neumann Medal, SIGOPS Hall of Fame, and recognitions from institutions such as NSF and DARPA. Laureates associated by collaboration or influence include researchers connected to Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Barbara Liskov, Leslie Lamport, Butler Lampson, Tony Hoare, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

SIGOPS operates under governance aligned with the Association for Computing Machinery bylaws, with elected officers and a council that coordinates with committees at universities like MIT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Princeton University. Membership encompasses students, academics, and professionals from corporations such as Intel Corporation, IBM, Google, Microsoft Corporation, Apple Inc., and national labs including Los Alamos National Laboratory. The administrative model leverages regional chapters mirroring models used by ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGCOMM, and IEEE Computer Society chapters, and collaborates with educational programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and National University of Singapore.