CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT

Marshall Kirk McKusick

The goal of the USENIX Association as stated in its charter is to "bring together the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world."

I believe that USENIX conferences and workshops with their refereed papers and associated Proceedings are the most valuable service that USENIX provides. I am dedicated to ensuring that they continue to be the centerpiece of the organization.

I feel that it is vitally important that USENIX continue to bring the next generation of students into the organization through the continuation of its student mentoring, research grants, and conference travel stipend programs.

I have spent much of my career helping to create, nurture, and evolve the freely-redistributable software movement. Much of the work done at the Computer Systems Research Group for the BSD releases was vetted to ensure that it could be freely redistributed. Legal battles were fought to keep the code free after it had been released under a freely-redistributable source license. And recently, much work has been needed to promote it in the public eye.

I have helped raise the profile of freely-redistributable software at USENIX through the FREENIX track, which has been part of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference for the past five years. FREENIX has striven to bring together the work of the Linux community and the *BSD community, as well as the many other groups working on freely-redistributable software. I have participated as a FREENIX program committee chair, panelist, and presenter.

Several groups of people have weighed in with nominations and recommendations as to who should serve on the USENIX Board. I would like to make my own recommendations from the field of candidates. Most important to me is that you elect Mike Jones for Vice President. I have worked closely with Mike over the past two years, and I feel that he has the understanding, experience, ability, and willingness to step in for me as President should the need arise when I am teaching abroad or am otherwise unavailable. In making my selections, I have tried to pick candidates with whom I can work effectively, who will commit time and energy to the job, and who will keep the whole organization in mind, including both USENIX and SAGE. My recommendations are:

Vice President:	Mike Jones
Treasurer:	Lois Bennett
Secretary:	Peter Honeyman
Directors:	Tina Darmohray John Gilmore Jon "maddog" Hall Avi Rubin Ted T'so

Biography: Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick writes books and articles, consults, and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast filesystem and was the Research Computer Scientist at the Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) overseeing the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. His particular areas of interest are the virtual-memory system and the filesystem. One day, he hopes to see them merged seamlessly. He earned his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and did his graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received Master's degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration and a doctoral degree in Computer Science. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the USENIX Association from 1986 to 1992 and served as president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992. He is also a member of ACM and IEEE.

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