ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award winners by year

ACM SIGOPS · Science prize · usually Oct or Nov · due Oct 2026, no newer edition read yet

Winners

20252 winners

The Tail at ScaleJeffrey Dean, Luiz André Barroso; Communications of the ACM, 2013Source ↗

Using Crash Hoare Logic for Certifying the FSCQ File SystemHaogang Chen, Daniel Ziegler, Tej Chajed, Adam Chlipala, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich; SOSP 2015Source ↗

20231 winner

Xen and the Art of VirtualizationPaul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield; SOSP 2003Source ↗

20221 winner

Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed DatabaseJames C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild, Wilson Hsieh, Sebastian Kanthak, Eugene Kogan, Hongyi Li, Alexander Lloyd, Sergey Melnik, David Mwaura, David Nagle, Sean Quinlan, Rajesh Rao, Lindsay Rolig, Yasushi Saito, Michal Szymaniak, Christopher Taylor, Ruth Wang, Dale Woodford (Google); OSDI 2012Source ↗

20211 winner

Onix: A Distributed Control Platform for Large-scale Production NetworksTeemu Koponen, Martin Casado, Natasha Gude, Jeremy Stribling, Leon Poutievski, Min Zhu, Rajiv Ramanathan, Yuichiro Iwata, Hiroaki Inoue, Takayuki Hama, Scott Shenker; OSDI 2010Source ↗

About this award

For the most influential operating systems papers published at least ten years earlier.

Edition	Announced	Winners	Source
2025		2
2023		1
2022		1
2021		1

The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Oct or Nov); it changes when ACM SIGOPS announces one.

New winnersSep 25, 2026Editions 2021 to 2023, 2025 loaded with 5 winners; the 2025 edition named The Tail at Scale and 1 other.

Award addedSep 25, 2026Now tracked: For the most influential operating systems papers published at least ten years earlier.