from 1989 to 1994, and as a writer announcements for further devel- companies (Ingres Corporation and teacher on various security opments. and Illustra Information Technolo- topics. The Board agreed to be a sponsor gies, Inc.) to market them as com- It is once again our good fortune of CodeCon 2005, which was held mercial products. He also initiated that Rik is willing to take the helm in San Francisco in February. the Mariposa project, which became the basis of another com- at ;login:. We look forward to his USENIX will make a $20,000 long and successful tenure! pany called Cohera, later sold to donation to Stichting SANE for the PeopleSoft. All three of these proj- SANE 2006 conference and will ects were developed at the Univer- S U M M A R Y OF U SEN IX BOA R D OF I offer a guarantee in the event that sity of California, Berkeley, where D I RE C TO R S MEETI N G S , D E C E M B E R there is a deficit. Dr. Stonebraker served as a profes- 2 0 0 4 – A P R I L 20 05XXXXXXXXXXXI sor of computer science for 25 Tara Mulligan COM M I T T E E S years. USENIX Member Services Manager The Board will create a subcom- Currently Dr. Stonebraker is an mittee chaired by Matt Blaze to adjunct professor of computer sci- M E M B E R S H I P look into fraudulent/dual paper ence at M.I.T., where he has submissions to conferences. The Board voted to increase Insti- helped build a stream processing tutional member benefits as fol- engine, Aurora. In 2003 he lows: NEXT MEETI N G founded StreamBase Systems to The next regular meeting of the market this technology, with him- Educational: Will receive up to 2 Board of Directors will be held on self as CTO. additional subscriptions to ;login:. Tuesday, August 2, 2005, at the He has authored and co-authored Corporate: Will receive up to 4 USENIX Security Symposium in scores of research papers on data- additional subscriptions to ;login:; Baltimore, MD. base technology, operating systems will be provided with five (5) design, and expert systems. He has member-priced conference regis- been active in the ACM Special trations during the membership A N NUAL AWA R D S Interest Group on Management of term; will receive multiple- Data (SIGMOD) both as a member employee discount registrations to U S E N IX LI F E T IME ACH I EVE- and a leader. allow more staff to attend USENIX M E N T (FLAME) AWA R D conferences; and will be listed on a WI N NER 2005 : M I C H A E L He has a B.S. from Princeton page linked from our Membership STO N E B RA K E R (1965) and an M.S. (1967) and a portal page during the member- Ph.D. (1971) from the University ship term. of Michigan. Supporting: Will receive up to 4 Dr. Stonebraker has also received additional subscriptions to;login:. several other awards, including the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in The new benefits will be imple- 2005, the ACM Software System mented over the next few months. Award in 1988, and the ACM SIG- If you are interested in upgrading MOD Innovations Award in 1994. your account or in learning more He was elected to the National about our classes of membership, Academy of Engineering in 1998. please see www.usenix.org/mem- Board President Michael B. Jones bership or contact us at member- presenting the Flame Award [email protected]. U S E N IX STU G (SO FT WA R E TO O L S USER GRO U P) AWA R D Dr. Michael Stonebraker has been WI N NE R S 200 5: MAT T H I A S CO N F E R E N C E S a leading database, operating sys- E T T R I C H AN D MIGU EL DE The USENIX Annual Technical tems, and expert systems designer, I C A Z A FOR KDE AND GNOM E Conference will be moved back both as an academic and as an The STUG award recognizes sig- into the early summer timeframe entrepreneur, for over thirty years. nificant contributions to the com- in 2006. It will also be reformatted He is well known for his work in munity that reflect the spirit and to address current issues in developing both the INGRES and character demonstrated by those advanced computing systems. POSTGRES database systems who came together in the Software Please check your USENIX news under a freely distributable BSD Tools User Group (STUG). Recipi- email messages and conference license, then going on to form ents of the annual STUG award

78 ; L O G I N : V O L . 3 0 , N O . 3 A KDE mascot goes to GNOME conspicuously exhibit a contribu- tion to the reusable code-base avail- able to all and/or the provision of a significant enabling technology to users in a widely available form. The UNIX Command Line User Interface (CLI), while widely rec- ognized as being efficient, has often been attacked by non-UNIX users as not user-friendly. In response, many GUIs have been added to UNIX over the years, but most were generally considered inferior to non-UNIX GUIs. In October of 1996 and August of 1997, two projects were started to produce desktops that were easy to use, adhered to traditional UNIX philosophies, and gave access to all of the underlying features of the CLI. While these desktops competed with each other, they also lent strength to each other and have now produced a range of applica- tions that we collectively call KDE and GNOME. These applications have eased implementations of the UNIX operating system in the non- technical marketplace. Most impor- tant, by embracing the concepts of free and open source software, these two desktop projects offered freely distributed code, which allowed any distribution or soft- ware developer to utilize these graphical features. The USENIX Association would like to recognize both of these groups for creating a very portable set of libraries, tools, and applica- tions.

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