page_title: USENIX
section_title: USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
hierarchical_section_title: USENIX / USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
caption_attribution_description: English: Speakers from the 1984 Summer Usenix Conference (Salt Lake City, UT). Please comment if you can identify people. Dennis Ritchie stands in the center (glasses, striped sweater). Steve Bellovin, in a hat, is standing in front of Dennis. The head peaking out just to the left of Steve Bellovin's hat is Bob Miles. To Dennis' left is Andy Tannenbaum (the lessor or portrait mode - a.k.a. trb, not to be confused with Andy Tanenbaum the greater of MINIX fame or Andy in landscape mode). Behind trb is Bob Masters and Tom Teixiera. Crouching in front of Steve is Eric Allman. To Eric's left, Andrew Hume is crouching and making a snowball. Standing behind Andrew, Clem Cole is doing something suspicious with a can and a cup. To Clem's left is Donn Seeley. To Clem's right is Mike Karels. On Mike's right is Eric Finger. Crouching on the left is Peter Langston (long hair). Nancy Blachman is standing behind Peter. To her right is Andrew Koenig. Others include Erik Fair (tall) between Nancy and Dennis. Chris Torek is partially obscured by Erik. Way in the back, between Andy and Clem, Eric Schmidt is almost entirely obscured. On the far right, Sam Leffler is holding a bottle. Looking over Sam's right shoulder is Bruce Borden (face only). To Bruce's left is Greg Crowe from Davis Polk &amp; Wardwell. Mark Seiden is squatting by Clem, holding a can. I (or others) may be able to add others (and edit this sentence out) over time. Spencer Thomas and Jay Lepreau (deceased now) must be standing there, but my memory is hazy what they looked like at the time. Taking a stab at four others: To Nancy's left that seems like it is Perry Flinn with the beard and hair parted in the center. Also it looks like Jim Mcginness directly in front of Clem, and that could be Jay with the camera looking back. Give who all is in the picture, it would make sense that would be Terry Hayes between Teixiera and Finger, but Eric's hair is obscuring too much of the face for me to be sure. The guy in the front row with the hat and the camera is Doug Kingson (then of the US Army BRL and now I think with Morgan-Stanley). The person in the striped shirt on the left (behind the woman in the sweater) is Ron Natalie (also then of BRL, now of Sensor Systems). Former BRL-er, then with Northrop, Robert Miles is the head in the back row just to the left of Steve Bellovin. Also partly obscured by Andy Tannenbaum's head is Mike Muuss, leader of the BRL group. It has been asked: How come everyone in this photo is smiling except Dennis Richie? trb responds "That's easy. Because we were with Dennis, and he was with us."
context_page_description: USENIX is an association that supports operating system research. It was founded in 1975 under the name "Unix Users Group," focusing primarily on the study and development of Unix and similar systems. In June 1977, a lawyer from AT&T Corporation informed the group that they could not use the word UNIX as it was a trademark of Western Electric, 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 entitled;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, a technical adjunct for Unix-like tools and interface on non-Unix operating systems, and /usr/group, a commercially oriented user group.
context_section_description: This award, also called the "Flame" award, has been presented since 1993.
  2019 Margo Seltzer
  2018 Eddie Kohler
  2014 Thomas E. Anderson
  2012 John Mashey
  2011 Dan Geer
  2010 Ward Cunningham
  2009 Gerald J. Popek
  2008 Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  2007 Peter Honeyman
  2006 Radia Perlman
  2005 Michael Stonebraker
  2004 M. Douglas McIlroy
  2003 Rick Adams
  2002 James Gosling
  2001 The GNU Project and all its contributors
  2000 W. Richard Stevens
  1999 "The X Window System Community at Large"
  1998 Tim Berners-Lee
  1997 Brian W. Kernighan
  1996 The Software Tools Users Group (Dennis E. Hall, Deborah Scherrer, Joe Sventek)
  1995 The Creation of USENET by Jim Ellis, Steven M. Bellovin, and Tom Truscott
  1994 Networking Technologies
  1993 Berkeley UNIX
caption: USENIX 1984 Summer speakers having some fun
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