Thomas E. Anderson

Tom Anderson
Born (1961-08-28) August 28, 1961 (age 63)
Orlando, Florida, U.S.
CitizenshipUSA
Alma materHarvard University
University of Washington
Known forDistributed computing
networking
operating systems
AwardsSIGOPS 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
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
University of California, Berkeley
ThesisOperating system support for high-performance multiprocessing (1991)
Doctoral advisorEdward D. Lazowska
Hank Levy
Doctoral students
Websitewww.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/tom/

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.

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:

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 2024-11-19.
  2. ^ "Tom Anderson | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering". www.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  3. ^ a b Jennifer Langston (February 8, 2016). "UW's Tom Anderson elected to National Academy of Engineering". UW Today. University of Washington. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  4. ^ "The Mark Weiser Award". ACM SIGOPS. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  5. ^ Ascribe Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge (2006-01-10). "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 2013-04-30.
  6. ^ IEEE (2013). "IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Recipients". IEEE. Archived from the original on April 8, 2010. Retrieved 2013-04-30.