Advanced Operating Systems Alumni Prize

This prize, valued A$2000, is donated by former students of the Advanced Operating Systems course, plus the lecturers Gernot Heiser and Kevin Elphinstone. It is awarded annually to the best student(s) in COMP9242 Advanced Operating Systems. Performance in other OS-related activities, such as COMP9243 Distributed Systems and the final-year theses, can also be taken into consideration.

The winners so far are:

Year	Winner
2011	Matt Fernandez
2010	Anna Lyons
2009	Rupert Shuttleworth
2008	Prashant Varanasi
2007	Josh Matthews
2006	Clarence Dang
2005	David Greenaway
2004	Geoff Lee
2003	Philip Derrin
2002	Andrew Baumann
2001	Matthew Chapman
2000	Anthony Edwards
1999	John Dagliesh
1998	Luke Deller and Emmanuel Galanos (joint winners)

From 2005 until 2010, the prize was sponsored by IBM Advanced Development Labs Canberra (better known as OzLabs) and was known as the IBM (OzLabs) Operating Systems Prize.

Until 2005, the prize was known as the Aurema Operating Systems Prize, donated by Sydney company Aurema Pty Ltd, now part of Citrix.

See also Gernot's Operating Systems Hall of Fame.