{"id":21249,"date":"2020-11-16T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=21249"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:43","slug":"jason-flinn-honored-with-2020-mark-weiser-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/16\/jason-flinn-honored-with-2020-mark-weiser-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Flinn honored with 2020 Mark Weiser Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Flinn\" class=\"wp-image-21250\"\/><figcaption>(The Michigan Engineer)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jason Flinn<\/strong>, professor of computer science and engineering, has been recognized by the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.engin.umich.edu\/2020\/11\/jason-flinn-honored-with-2020-mark-weiser-award\/\">2020 Mark Weiser Award<\/a>, a preeminent honor in the field of operating systems. The award recognizes a career of contributions \u201cthat are highly creative, innovative, and possibly high-risk, in keeping with the visionary spirit of Mark Weiser.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flinn joined U-M in 2002 as an assistant professor. His research is in the area of operating systems, mobile computing, storage, and distributed systems. He currently works on improving application debugging with cluster-scale computing and improving mobile application response times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award is named in honor of U-M alum Mark Wieser, known widely for his research accomplishments during his career at Xerox PARC. Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing, a term he coined. Within Silicon Valley, Weiser was broadly viewed as a visionary and computer pioneer, and his ideas have influenced many of the world\u2019s leading computer scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Flinn, professor of computer science and engineering, has been recognized by the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) with the\u00a02020 Mark Weiser Award, a preeminent honor in the field of operating systems. The award recognizes a career of contributions \u201cthat are highly creative, innovative, and possibly high-risk, in keeping with the visionary spirit of Mark\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/16\/jason-flinn-honored-with-2020-mark-weiser-award\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[175,290,891],"class_list":["post-21249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-award","tag-coe","tag-faculty"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-e1605638467156.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/flinn-jason-featured-2400x1600-1-e1605638467156.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Jason Flinn, professor of computer science and engineering, has been recognized by the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) with the\u00a02020 Mark Weiser Award, a preeminent honor in the field of operating systems. 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