USENIX Annual Awards

The USENIX Association, at its annual meeting in Monterey, presented the following awards:

The 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award

The X Window System Community at Large received USENIX's 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes and celebrates singular contributions to the UNIX community in both intellectual achievement and unparalleled service. The citation says: "Presented in honor of a profound intellectual achievement and an unparalleled service to our Community." The following individuals are recognized as the Principal Recipients and Keepers of the Flame: Bob Scheifler, Jim Gettys, Phil Karlton, Ralph Swick, Keith Packard, and Smokey Wallace.

The 1999 Software Tools User Group Award

The 1999 award went to Udi Manber, for turning algorithms into tools for search ing and resource discovery. Udi Manber is the Chief Scientist at Yahoo!. Before joining Yahoo! in 1998, he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. He wrote more than 50 technical articles, 3 of which won best paper awards, co-developed Agrep, Glimpse, Harvest, and the Search Broker, and wrote a popular textbook on design of algorithms.

Further details can be found at <http://www.usenix.org/directory/awards.html> and at <http://www. usenix.org/directory/stug.html>.