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Mark Weiser Award

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The ACM SIGOPS (Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) Mark Weiser Award is awarded to an individual who has shown creativity and innovation in operating system research. The recipients began their career no earlier than 20 years prior to nomimation, and hence the award is analogical to the Fields Medal. The award was created in 2001 and is named after Mark Weiser, the father of ubiquitous computing.

The winners of this award have been:

  • 2015: Yuanyuan Zhou
  • 2014: Eddie Kohler
  • 2013: Stefan Savage
  • 2012: Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat
  • 2011: Miguel Castro
  • 2010: Robert Tappan Morris
  • 2009: Eric Brewer
  • 2008: Peter Druschel
  • 2007: Peter M. Chen
  • 2006: Dawson Engler
  • 2005: Thomas E. Anderson
  • 2004: Brian N. Bershad
  • 2003: Mike Burrows
  • 2002: Mendel Rosenblum
  • 2001: Frans Kaashoek
  • References

    Mark Weiser Award Wikipedia