Thomas E. Anderson

Thomas Edward Anderson^[1] (born August 28, 1961), commonly known as Tom Anderson,^[2] is an American computer scientist noted for his research on distributed computing, networking and operating systems.

Tom Anderson
Born	(1961-08-28) August 28, 1961 (age 63) Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Citizenship	USA
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Washington
Known for	Distributed computing networking operating systems
Awards	SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2005) ACM Fellow (2005) IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2013) USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) National Academy of Engineering (2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of Washington University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Operating system support for high-performance multiprocessing (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Edward D. Lazowska Hank Levy
Doctoral students	Margaret Martonosi Danyang Zhuo
Website	www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/tom/

Biography

Anderson received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in philosophy from Harvard University in 1983. He received a Master of Arts in computer science from University of Washington in 1989 and a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from University of Washington in 1991.

He then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1991. While there he was promoted to associate professor in 1996. In 1997, he moved to the University of Washington as an associate professor. In 2001, he was promoted to professor, and in 2009 to the Robert E. Dinning Professor in Computer Science. He currently holds the Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Endowed Chair.^[3]

Awards

His notable awards include:

• ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award in 2005^[4]
• ACM Fellow in 2005^[5]
• IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, 2013^[6]
• USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014
• National Academy of Engineering, 2016, for "contributions to the design of resilient and efficient distributed computer systems."^[3]

Works

• Anderson, Thomas; Dahlin, Michael (2014). Operating Systems: Principles and Practice. Recursive Books (self-published). ISBN 978-0-9856735-2-9.

References

1. "Operating system support for high-performance multiprocessing - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
2. "Tom Anderson | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering". www.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
3. Jennifer Langston (February 8, 2016). "UW's Tom Anderson elected to National Academy of Engineering". UW Today. University of Washington. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
4. "The Mark Weiser Award". ACM SIGOPS. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
5. Ascribe Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge (January 10, 2006). "ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, Names 34 Fellows for Contributions to Computing and IT; Winners Represent Leading Industries, Research Labs, Universities". Cable Spotlight. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
6. IEEE (2013). "IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Recipients". IEEE. Archived from the original on April 8, 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2013.

External links

• University of Washington web page: Thomas E. Anderson, Department of Computer Science