![]() ![]() We hope her service has been its own reward, because no award could match it. By generously sharing her personal stories and experiences, she is a great inspiration for young researchers struggling to find their place in the community, as well as to established members who hold the power to change careers and lives.Īnd then there’s the free software that she wrote, or co-wrote, and maintained for many years, including contributions to Berkeley UNIX and, again, Berkeley DB. Who is different from what we’ve come to expect of “systems people” in the last few decades. And she has spent and is continuously spending time and energy in making our community more inclusive-to women, minorities, and (as importantly!) anyone She has drawn many into USENIX and helped cultivate volunteers and leaders. For example, two dramatic inflection points in Philip Guo’s widely-read PhD memoir, The PhD Grind, take place at USENIX events and involve Margo’s far-sighted research vision and her mentoring generosity. Margo has a talent for making connections, and many people have benefited enormously from knowing her. She’s often found talking to new people and strengthening community in the halls of USENIX events. Represented USENIX at the Computing Research Association, 2014–2017.President of the USENIX Association, 2012–2014.Acting Executive Director of the USENIX Association, 2011–2012.Vice President of the USENIX Association, 2008–2012.Director at Large of the USENIX Association, 1996–19–2008.USENIX has benefited many times from her many talents, ranging from research ideas to business sense and beyond. She listens to the community and to staff and helps staff and the organization grow. She served as Acting Executive Director-a full-time organizational role very few volunteers would attempt, let alone successfully fill!-during a critical transition. She stepped up with vision, foresight, and hard work at several important turning points, including the 2008 financial crisis. Margo has likely provided the most important leadership, and the most unflagging dedication, of any USENIX volunteer ever. She served on more than ten program committees for USENIX conferences since 1992.This workshop, like the entire field of provenance systems, exists thanks to her vision. She did the same for TaPP, the Workshop on Theory and Practice of Provenance, for many years.She served on the steering committees of NSDI and HotOS.She served on the steering committee of FAST, a conference she advocated and helped found, for more than 15 years after its inauguration in 2002.She chaired or co-chaired TaPP, FAST, HotOS, and ATC.Margo served as program co-chair of the 3rd ever OSDI, concurrently with getting tenure at Harvard.Aside from fantastic research, she creates, nurtures, and sustains communities around that She has shown how provenance can serve as a unifying abstraction for systems goals from intrusion detection to supporting scientific work. This field has exploded, with ongoing efforts in database as well as systems conferences. She pioneered the field of provenance systems, storage systems that track the provenance of modifications.She has investigated many aspects of operating system design, from file systems to network-attached storage to multicore OSes and extensible systems.She has published many benchmark suites and methodologies.Having built BerkeleyDB with collaborators and supported it to ubiquity, she has used it as a springboard for investigating both software design and new hardware technologies such as persistent memory.One of her early USENIX-associated research contributions, a seminal analysis of the performance of log-structured file systems, demonstrated the integrity, independence, strength of character, and commitment to fair performance evaluation that pervade her work. She has done great work in many areas of computer systems, and especially in file and storage systems and databases. USENIX has published and publicized many of the highlights of Margo’s incredible research career, sometimes in venues she helped found. Her nomination letter, signed by nearly 70 community members, states: Margo Seltzer received the 2019 award in recognition of her research into experimental file and storage systems, her development of new storage paradigms such as provenance, her software contributions, and her dedication to and steering of the USENIX community and its organization. USENIX Flame Award winner Margo Seltzer (left) and board member Angela Demke Brown
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