CS Professor Fred B. Schneider's paper "Implementing Fault-Tolerant Services Using the State Machine Approach: a tutorial" of ACM Computing Surveys 22(4):299-319, Dec. 1990, has been selected as a winner of this year's SIGOPS "Hall of Fame" award (http://www.sigops.org/awards/hall-of-fame.html).
The award was established in 2005 "to recognize the most influential Operating Systems papers that have appeared in the peer-reviewed literature at least ten years in the past."