Kathryn S. McKinley, UTCS professor, Emery Berger, UTCS 2002 Ph.D. graduate, and Benjamin Zorn, Microsoft researcher were recently awarded the Most Influential Paper from OOPSLA at the 2012 SPLASH Conference for "Reconsidering custom memory allocation." 

The award is given annually to the author(s) of a paper presented 10 years earlier and judged to be the most influential over the preceding decade. 

Berger is now an Associate Professor at UMass-Amherst.