page_title: Software tools users group
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Software tools users group / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: At the USENIX conference in 1996, Steve Johnson(r), then President of USENIX, presents the “Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame)” to Joe Sventek (l), Deborah Scherrer (2nd from left), and Dennis Hall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_tools_users_group
context_page_description: The Software Tools Users Group was a technical organization started in 1976, in parallel with Usenix. The STUG goal was to develop a powerful and portable Unix-like system that could be implemented on top of virtually any operating system, providing the capabilities and features of Unix in a non-proprietary system. With its focus on building clean, portable, reusable code shared amongst multiple applications and runnable on any operating system, the Software Tools movement reestablished the tradition of open source and the concepts of empowering users to define, develop, control, and freely distribute their computing environment.
context_section_description: On January 24, 1996, Scherrer's, Hall's, and Sventek's work was recognized with a USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (“The Flame”).
  In 1993 Scherrer had previously been honored with a “UNIX Academic Driver” award presented by Bell Labs, for “Outstanding Contributions to the UNIX community”. Her work included the Software Tools movement as well as contributions to USENIX.
caption: At the USENIX conference in 1996, Steve Johnson(r), then President of USENIX, presents the “Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame)” to Joe Sventek (l), Deborah Scherrer (2nd from left), and Dennis Hall.
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