USENIX

USENIX
Formation1975 (1975)[1]
HeadquartersBerkeley, California, United States
President
Amy Rich
Websitewww.usenix.org
USENIX booth at Linuxcon 2016

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b "About USENIX". USENIX. 2017-04-21. Retrieved 2022-05-21.

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