CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Michael B. Jones
I have benefitted significantly throughout my career from the high-quality
programs that USENIX provides. I am seeking re-election to the USENIX Board as
vice-president in order to continue to give back to USENIX, SAGE, and the
advanced computing systems community so others may continue to benefit, as I
have.
I believe that USENIX plays a unique and vital role in the advanced computing
systems community. It is great at building communities of interest, as it first
did around UNIX and now does for additional communities such as SAGE,
SmartCards, Java, Security, *BSD, and Linux. It promotes free exchange of
information, open standards, and advancement of the state of the art. Finally,
it provides premier venues for timely publication of seminal work. As someone
who regularly publishes research papers and attends technical symposia, I know
first-hand the value of USENIX's conferences
As a member of the Board, I've used my expertise as a researcher and as a
business person to help USENIX continue providing high-quality educational and
community-building opportunities. I've served as Board liaison to the 2002
General Conference, OSDI 2002, and WIESS 2002, and am working towards starting a
new mobile computing systems conference in cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE.
I took a leading role in publishing the legislative alert sent to our members in
early October, warning them of dangers posed by proposed legislation to the
civil liberties of computer professionals. I also strongly supported our role in
the Felten vs. RIAA case supporting Felten's right to publish research on
encryption in light of the DMCA.
I am a strong proponent of SAGE and am proud of my advocacy for SAGE during this
term. I recently made the case to the Board that the time had come to allocate
two full-time staff members specifically dedicated to carrying out SAGE
programs. Passage of this measure was one of the accomplishments I'm most proud
of during this term.
Thus, I am pleased to accept the nomination for Board vice-president. If
elected, it would be my goal to continue helping nurture and safeguard the
unique things that make USENIX USENIX, identifying, reaching out to, and serving
key computing communities, and expanding our services, while ensuring that
USENIX's high level of professionalism and personal service can be maintained.
Personal Recommendations: Since several groups of people have weighed in
with nominations and recommendations for the next USENIX Board, I thought I
would do likewise. I particularly encourage you to consider candidates who are
active academics or researchers themselves, as this experience helps when
overseeing and planning conferences. My recommendations are: President: Kirk
McKusick; Treasurer: Lois Bennett; Secretary: Peter Honeyman; Directors: Tina
Darmohray, John Gilmore, Jon "maddog" Hall, Darrell Long, Avi Rubin, and Ted
T'so.
Biography: I have been active in USENIX for many years, publishing and
speaking at numerous conferences and workshops. I have served on conference
committees, helped found the series of Windows NT research and system
administration symposia, and co-chaired the 2000 OSDI symposium. I was a primary
contributor to the POSIX threads standard. I am a member of the Systems and
Networking Research Group at Microsoft Research. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer
Science from CMU in 1992, where I was a member of the Mach project. My interests
include operating systems, parallel and distributed systems, networking,
adaptive real-time systems, outdoor activities, musical performance, and my
fellow human beings.
For more about me see https://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/ and
https://www.roadtrip.org/.
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CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT