2004
OSDI ‘04
Best Paper:
Recovering Device Drivers
Michael M. Swift, Muthukaruppan Annamalai, Brian N. Bershad, and Henry M. Levy,
University of Washington
Best Paper:
Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors
Junfeng Yang, Paul Twohey, and Dawson Engler,
Stanford University; Madanlal Musuvathi,
Microsoft Research
LISA ‘04
Best Paper:
Scalable Centralized Bayesian Spam Mitigation with Bogofilter
Jeremy Blosser and David Josephsen,
VHA, Inc.
Security ‘04
Best Paper:
Understanding Data Lifetime via Whole System Simulation
Jim Chow, Ben Pfaff, Tal Garfinkel, Kevin Christopher, and Mendel Rosenblum,
Stanford University
Best 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 Conference
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, Berkeley
Best Paper:
Energy Efficient Prefetching and Caching
Athanasios E. Papathanasiou and Michael L. Scott,
University of Rochester
FREENIX 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 ‘04
Best Paper:
Semantic Remote Attestation—A Virtual Machine Directed Approach to Trusted Computing
Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra, and Michael Franz,
University of California, Irvine
FAST ‘04
Best 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 University
NSDI ‘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
LISA ‘03
Award 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 Research
Award 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 Tsukuba
12th 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 University
2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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 Park
First 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, Berkeley
4th 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
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 Washington
LISA ‘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 Society
11th 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,
MIT
2nd 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 University
2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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 Laboratories
FREENIX 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 University
Conference 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