2011
FAST '11Best Paper:A Study of Practical DeduplicationDutch T. Meyer, Microsoft Research and the University of British Columbia; William J. Bolosky, Microsoft Research
Best Paper:Emulating Goliath Storage Systems with DavidNitin Agrawal, NEC Laboratories America; Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison
2010
LISA '10Best Paper:Log Analysis and Event Correlation Using Variable Temporal Event Correlator (VTEC)Paul Krizak, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Best Student Paper:First Step Towards Automatic Correction of Firewall Policy FaultsFei Chen and Alex X. Liu, Michigan State University; JeeHyun Hwang and Tao Xie, North Carolina State University
Best Practice and Experience Report:Internet on the EdgeAndrew Mundy, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
OSDI '10Jay Lepreau Best Paper:Efficient System-Enforced Deterministic ParallelismAmittai Aviram, Shu-Chun Weng, Sen Hu, and Bryan Ford, Yale University
Jay Lepreau Best Paper:The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested VirtualizationMuli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Research—Haifa; Michael D. Day, IBM Linux Technology Center; Zvi Dubitzky, Michael Factor, Nadav Har'El, and Abel Gordon, IBM Research—Haifa; Anthony Liguori, IBM Linux Technology Center; Orit Wasserman and Ben-Ami Yassour, IBM Research—Haifa
USENIX Security '10Best Paper:VEX: Vetting Browser Extensions for Security VulnerabilitiesSruthi Bandhakavi, Samuel T. King, P. Madhusudan, and Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Best Student Paper:Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIXRobert N.M. Watson and Jonathan Anderson, University of Cambridge; Ben Laurie and Kris Kennaway, Google UK Ltd.
USENIX ATC '10Best Paper:LiteGreen: Saving Energy in Networked Desktops Using VirtualizationTathagata Das, Microsoft Research India; Pradeep Padala, DOCOMO USA Labs; Venkat Padmanabhan and Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research India; Kang G. Shin, The University of Michigan
Best Paper:ZooKeeper: Wait-free Coordination for Internet-scale SystemsPatrick Hunt and Mahadev Konar, Yahoo! Grid; Flavio P. Junqueira and Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research
WebApps '10Best Paper:Separating Web Applications from User Data Storage with BSTORERamesh Chandra, Priya Gupta, and Nickolai Zeldovich, MIT CSAIL
NSDI '10Best Paper:Reverse tracerouteEthan Katz-Bassett, University of Washington; Harsha V. Madhyastha, University of California, San Diego; Vijay Kumar Adhikari, University of Minnesota; Colin Scott, Justine Sherry, Peter van Wesep, Thomas Anderson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington
FAST '10Best Paper:quFiles: The Right File at the Right TimeKaushik Veeraraghavan and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan; Edmund B. Nightingale, Microsoft Research, Redmond; Brian Noble, University of Michigan
Best Paper:Membrane: Operating System Support for Restartable File SystemsSwaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Michael M. Swift, University of Wisconsin—Madison
2009
LISA '09Best Paper:Crossbow Virtual Wire: Network in a BoxSunay Tripathi, Nicolas Droux, Kais Belgaied, and Shrikrishna Khare, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Best Student Paper:Federated Access Control and Workflow Enforcement in Systems ConfigurationBart Vanbrabant, Thomas Delaet, and Wouter Joosen, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
USENIX Security '09Outstanding Student Paper:Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired and Wireless KeyboardsMartin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini, LASEC/EPFL
Outstanding Student Paper:Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy with Self-Destructing DataRoxana Geambasu, Tadayoshi Kohno, Amit A. Levy, and Henry M. Levy, University of Washington
EVT/WOTE '09Best Paper:Electing a University President Using Open-Audit Voting: Analysis of Real-World Use of HeliosBen Adida, Harvard University; Olivier de Marneffe, Olivier Pereira, and Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Université catholique de Louvain
USENIX '09Best Paper:Satori: Enlightened Page SharingGrzegorz Miłoś, Derek G. Murray, and Steven Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; Michael A. Fetterman, NVIDIA Corporation
Best Paper:Tolerating File-System Mistakes with EnvyFSLakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, NetApp., Inc.; Swaminathan Sundararaman, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison
NSDI '09Best Paper:TrInc: Small Trusted Hardware for Large Distributed SystemsDave Levin, University of Maryland; John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch, and Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research
Best Paper:Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core ProcessorsKun Tan and Jiansong Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia; Ji Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University; He Liu, Yusheng Ye, and Shen Wang, Tsinghua University; Yongguang Zhang, Haitao Wu, and Wei Wang, Microsoft Research Asia; Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego
FAST '09Best Paper:CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File SystemAlexandros Batsakis, NetApp and Johns Hopkins University; Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University; Arkady Kanevsky, James Lentini, and Thomas Talpey, NetApp
Best Paper:Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System BenchmarkingNitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2008
OSDI '08Jay Lepreau Best Paper:Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual MachinesDiwaker Gupta, University of California, San Diego; Sangmin Lee, University of Texas at Austin; Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego
Jay Lepreau Best Paper:DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level LanguageYuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, and Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Úlfar Erlingsson, Reykjavík University, Iceland, and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Pradeep Kumar Gunda and Jon Currey, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Jay Lepreau Best Paper:KLEE: Unassisted and Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests for Complex Systems ProgramsCristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar, and Dawson Engler, Stanford University
LISA '08Best Paper:ENAVis: Enterprise Network Activities VisualizationQi Liao, Andrew Blaich, Aaron Striegel, and Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame
Best Student Paper:Automatic Software Fault Diagnosis by Exploiting Application SignaturesXiaoning Ding, The Ohio State University; Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, and Anees Shaikh, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University
USENIX Security '08Best Paper:Highly Predictive BlacklistingJian Zhang and Phillip Porras, SRI International; Johannes Ullrich, SANS Institute
Best Student Paper:Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption KeysJ. Alex Halderman, Princeton University; Seth D. Schoen, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Nadia Heninger and William Clarkson, Princeton University; William Paul, Wind River Systems; Joseph A. Calandrino and Ariel J. Feldman, Princeton University; Jacob Appelbaum; Edward W. Felten, Princeton University
USENIX '08Best Paper:Decoupling Dynamic Program Analysis from Execution in Virtual EnvironmentsJim Chow, Tal Garfinkel, and Peter M. Chen, VMware
Best Student Paper:Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86Bryan Ford and Russ Cox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NSDI '08Best Paper:Remus: High Availability via Asynchronous Virtual Machine ReplicationBrendan Cully, Geoffrey Lefebvre, Dutch Meyer, Mike Feeley, and Norm Hutchinson, University of British Columbia; Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia and Citrix Systems, Inc.
Best Paper:Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed SystemJohn P. John, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst
LEET '08Best Paper:Designing and Implementing Malicious Hardware (PDF) or read in HTMLSamuel T. King, Joseph Tucek, Anthony Cozzie, Chris Grier, Weihang Jiang, and Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
FAST '08Best Paper:Portably Solving File TOCTTOU Races with Hardness AmplificationDan Tsafrir, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Tomer Hertz, Microsoft Research; David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley; Dilma Da Silva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Best Student Paper:An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage StackLakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Garth Goodson, Network Appliance Inc.; Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto; Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2007
LISA '07Best Paper:Application Buffer-Cache Management for Performance: Running the World's Largest MRTGDavid Plonka, Archit Gupta, and Dale Carder, University of Wisconsin Madison
Best Paper:PoDIM: A Language for High-Level Configuration ManagementThomas Delaet and Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
16th USENIX Security SymposiumBest Paper:Towards Automatic Discovery of Deviations in Binary Implementations with Applications to Error Detection and Fingerprint GenerationDavid Brumley, Juan Caballero, Zhenkai Liang, James Newsome, and Dawn Song, Carnegie Mellon University
Best Student Paper:Keep Your Enemies Close: Distance Bounding Against Smartcard Relay AttacksSaar Drimer and Steven J. Murdoch, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
USENIX '07Best Paper:Hyperion: High Volume Stream Archival for Retrospective QueryingPeter Desnoyers and Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Best Paper:SafeStore: A Durable and Practical Storage SystemRamakrishna Kotla, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin
NSDI '07Best Paper:Life, Death, and the Critical Transition: Finding Liveness Bugs in Systems CodeCharles Killian, James W. Anderson, Ranjit Jhala, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego
Best Student Paper:Do Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent?Michael Piatek, Tomas Isdal, Thomas Anderson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst
FAST '07Best Paper:Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You? Bianca Schroeder and Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University
Best Paper:TFS: A Transparent File System for Contributory Storage James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2006
LISA '06Best Paper:A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration Melanie R. Rieback, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Georgi N. Gaydadjiev, Delft University of Technology; Bruno Crispo, Rutger F.H. Hofman, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Honorable Mention:A Forensic Analysis of a Distributed Two-Stage Web-Based Spam Attack Daniel V. Klein, LoneWolf Systems
OSDI '06Best Paper:Rethink the Sync Edmund B. Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Peter M. Chen, and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan
Best Paper:Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured DataFay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber, Google, Inc.
15th USENIX Security SymposiumBest Paper:Evaluating SFI for a CISC Architecture Stephen McCamant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Greg Morrisett, Harvard University
Best Student Paper:Keyboards and Covert ChannelsGaurav Shah, Andres Molina, and Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania
2006 USENIX Annual Technical ConferenceBest Paper:Optimizing Network Virtualization in XenAravind Menon, EPFL; Alan L. Cox, Rice University; Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL
Best Paper:Replay Debugging for Distributed ApplicationsDennis Geels, Gautam Altekar, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley
NSDI '06Best Paper:Experience with an Object Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer FilesharingKevin Walsh and Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University
Best Paper:Availability of Multi-Object OperationsHaifeng Yu, Intel Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University; Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Suman Nath, Microsoft Research
2005
FAST '05Best Paper:Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-based StorageMichael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, and Jay J. Wylie, Carnegie Mellon University
Best Paper:On Multidimensional Data and Modern DisksSteven W. Schlosser, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Jiri Schindler, EMC Corporation; Stratos Papadomanolakis, Minglong Shao, Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
LISA '05Best Paper:Toward a Cost Model for System Administration Alva L. Couch, Ning Wu, and Hengky Susanto, Tufts University
Best Student Paper:Toward an Automated Vulnerability Comparison of Open Source IMAP Servers Chaos Golubitsky, Carnegie Mellon University
Best Student Paper:Reducing Downtime Due to System Maintenance and UpgradesShaya Potter and Jason Nieh, Columbia University
IMC 2005Best Student Paper:Measurement-based Characterization of a Collection of On-line GamesChris Chambers and Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University; Sambit Sahu and Debanjan Saha, IBM Research
Security '05Best Paper:Mapping Internet Sensors with Probe Response AttacksJohn Bethencourt, Jason Franklin, and Mary Vernon University of Wisconsin, Madison
Best Student Paper:Security Analysis of a Cryptographically-Enabled RFID DeviceSteve Bono, Matthew Green, and Adam Stubblefield, Johns Hopkins University; Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories; Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Szydlo, RSA Laboratories
MobiSys '05Best Paper:Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPadsRamón Cáceres, Casey Carter, Chandra Narayanaswami, and Mandayam Raghunath, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
NSDI '05Best Paper:Detecting BGP Configuration Faults with Static AnalysisNick Feamster and Hari Balakrishnan, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Best Student Paper:Botz-4-Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash CrowdsSrikanth Kandula and Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Matthias Jacob, Princeton University; Arthur Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Akamai
2005 USENIX Annual Technical ConferenceGeneral TrackBest Paper:Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual MachinesSamuel T. King, George W. Dunlap, and Peter M. Chen, University of Michigan
Best Student Paper:Itanium—A System Implementor's TaleCharles Gray, University of New South Wales; Matthew Chapman and Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia; David Mosberger-Tang, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia
FREENIX TrackBest Paper:USB/IP—A Peripheral Bus Extension for Device Sharing over IP NetworkTakahiro Hirofuchi, Eiji Kawai, Kazutoshi Fujikawa, and Hideki Sunahara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
2004
OSDI '04Best Paper:Recovering Device Drivers
Michael M. Swift, Muthukaruppan Annamalai, Brian N. Bershad, and Henry M. Levy, University of WashingtonBest Paper:Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors
Junfeng Yang, Paul Twohey, and Dawson Engler, Stanford University; Madanlal Musuvathi, Microsoft Research
LISA '04Best Paper:Scalable Centralized Bayesian Spam Mitigation with Bogofilter
Jeremy Blosser and David Josephsen, VHA, Inc.
Security '04Best Paper:Understanding Data Lifetime via Whole System Simulation
Jim Chow, Ben Pfaff, Tal Garfinkel, Kevin Christopher, and Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford UniversityBest Student Paper:Fairplay—A Secure Two-Party Computation System
Dahlia Malkhi and Noam Nisan, Hebrew University; Benny Pinkas, HP Labs; Yaron Sella, Hebrew University
2004 USENIX Annual Technical ConferenceGeneral Track Best Paper:Handling Churn in a DHT
Sean Rhea and Dennis Geels, University of California, Berkeley; Timothy Roscoe, Intel Research, Berkeley; John Kubiatowicz, University of California, BerkeleyBest Paper:Energy Efficient Prefetching and Caching
Athanasios E. Papathanasiou and Michael L. Scott, University of RochesterFREENIX Track Best Paper: Wayback: A User-level Versioning File System for Linux Brian Cornell, Peter A. Dinda, and Fabián E. Bustamante, Northwestern University
Best Student Paper:Design and Implementation of Netdude, a Framework for Packet Trace Manipulation
Christian Kreibich, University of Cambridge, UK
VM '04Best Paper:Semantic Remote Attestation—A Virtual Machine Directed Approach to Trusted Computing
Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra, and Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine
FAST '04Best Paper:Row-Diagonal Parity for Double Disk Failure Correction
Peter Corbett, Bob English, Atul Goel, Tomislav Grcanac, Steven Kleiman, James Leong, and Sunitha Sankar, Network Appliance, Inc.Best Student Paper:Improving Storage System Availability with D-GRAID
Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Best Student Paper:A Framework for Building Unobtrusive Disk Maintenance Applications
Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Christopher R. Lumb, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon UniversityNSDI '04 Best Paper: Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks Philip Levis, University of California, Berkeley, and Intel Research Berkeley; Neil Patel, University of California, Berkeley; David Culler, University of California, Berkeley, and Intel Research Berkeley; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and ICSI
Best Student Paper:Listen and Whisper: Security Mechanisms for BGP
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, University of California, Berkeley; Volker Roth, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany; Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and ICSI; Randy H. Katz, University of California, Berkeley
2003 [back to top]
LISA '03Award Paper:
STRIDER: A Black-box, State-based Approach to Change and Configuration Management and Support Yi-Min Wang, Chad Verbowski, John Dunagan, Yu Chen, Helen J. Wang, Chun Yuan, and Zheng Zhang, Microsoft ResearchAward Paper: Distributed Tarpitting: Impeding Spam Across Multiple Servers Tim Hunter, Paul Terry, and Alan Judge, eircom.net
BSDCon '03 Best Paper: Cryptographic Device Support for FreeBSD Samuel J. Leffler, Errno Consulting
Best Student Paper:Running BSD Kernels as User Processes by Partial Emulation and Rewriting of Machine Instructions
Hideki Eiraku and Yasushi Shinjo, University of Tsukuba12th USENIX Security Symposium Best Paper: Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical David Brumley and Dan Boneh, Stanford University
Best Student Paper:Establishing the Genuinity of Remote Computer Systems
Rick Kennell and Leah H. Jamieson, Purdue University2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference General Track Award Paper: Undo for Operators: Building an Undoable E-mail Store Aaron B. Brown and David A. Patterson, University of California, Berkeley
Award Paper: Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One Keir Fraser, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; Fay Chang, Google Inc.
FREENIX Track Best Paper: StarFish: Highly Available Block Storage Eran Gabber, Jeff Fellin, Michael Flaster, Fengrui Gu, Bruce Hillyer, Wee Teck Ng, Banu Özden, and Elizabeth Shriver, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
Best Student Paper:Flexibility in ROM: A Stackable Open Source BIOS
Adam Agnew and Adam Sulmicki, University of Maryland at College Park; Ronald Minnich, Los Alamos National Labs; William Arbaugh, University of Maryland at College ParkFirst International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Best Paper: Energy Aware Lossless Data Compression Kenneth Barr and Krste Asanovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies Best Paper: Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays Mustafa Uysal and Arif Merchant, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Guillermo A. Alvarez, IBM Almaden Research Center
Best Student Paper:Pond: The OceanStore Prototype
Sean Rhea, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ben Zhao, and John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems Best Paper: SkipNet: A Scalable Overlay Network with Practical Locality Properties Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Microsoft Research and University of Washington; Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research; Stefan Saroiu, University of Washington; Marvin Theimer and Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research
Best Student Paper:Scriptroute: A Public Internet Measurement Facility
Neil Spring, David Wetherall, and Tom Anderson, University of Washington
2002 [back to top]
5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation Best Paper: Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server Carl A. Waldspurger, VMware, Inc.Best Student Paper:An Analysis of Internet Content Delivery Systems
Stefan Saroiu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Richard J. Dunn, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy, University of WashingtonLISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference Best Paper: RTG: A Scalable SNMP Statistics Architecture for Service Providers Robert Beverly, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Best Paper:Work-Augmented Laziness with the Los Task Request System
Thomas Stepleton, Swarthmore College Computer Society11th USENIX Security Symposium Best Paper: Security in Plan 9 Russ Cox, MIT LCS; Eric Grosse and Rob Pike, Bell Labs; Dave Presotto, Avaya Labs and Bell Labs; Sean Quinlan, Bell Labs
Best Student Paper:Infranet: Circumventing Web Censorship and Surveillance
Nick Feamster, Magdalena Balazinska, Greg Harfst, Hari Balakrishnan, and David Karger, MIT2nd Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium Best Paper: An Empirical Study of Method In-lining for a Java Just-in-Time Compiler Toshio Suganuma, Toshiaki Yasue, and Toshio Nakatani, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
Best Student Paper:Supporting Binary Compatibility with Static Compilation
Dachuan Yu, Zhong Shao, and Valery Trifonov, Yale University2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference General Track Best Paper: Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System Kostas Magoutis, Salimah Addetia, Alexandra Fedorova, and Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard University; Jeffrey S. Chase, Andrew J. Gallatin, Richard Kisley, and Rajiv G. Wickremesinghe, Duke University; and Eran Gabber, Lucent Technologies
Best Student Paper:EtE: Passive End-to-End Internet Service Performance Monitoring
Yun Fu and Amin Vahdat, Duke University; Ludmila Cherkasova and Wenting Tang, Hewlett-Packard LaboratoriesFREENIX Track Best FREENIX Paper: CPCMS: A Configuration Management System Based on Cryptographic Names Jonathan S. Shapiro and John Vanderburgh, Johns Hopkins University
Best FREENIX Student Paper: SWILL: A Simple Embedded Web Server Library Sotiria Lampoudi and David M. Beazley, University of Chicago
BSDCon '02 Best Paper: Running "fsck" in the Background Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Consultant
Best Paper:Design And Implementation of a Direct Access File System (DAFS) Kernel Server for FreeBSD
Kostas Magoutis, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard UniversityConference on File and Storage Technologies Best Paper: VENTI - A New Approach to Archival Data Storage Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Best Student Paper:Track-aligned Extents: Matching Access Patterns to Disk Drive Characteristics
Jiri Schindler, John Linwood Griffin, Christopher R. Lumb, Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University