Tom Anderson (computer scientist)

Thomas "Tom" E. Anderson (born August 28, 1961 in Orlando (Florida) ) is an American computer scientist .

Anderson first studied philosophy at Harvard University (including with John Rawls ) with a bachelor's degree cum laude in 1983 and computer science at the University of Washington with a master's degree in 1989 and a doctorate with Edward Delano Lazowska and Henry M. Levy (Hank Levy) 1991 (Operating System Support for High Performance Multiprocessing). In 1990 he was intern at the DEC research center. From 1991 Assistant Professor and from 1996 Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and from 1997 Associate Professor and from 2001 Professor at the University of Washington. There he is Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Professor of Computer Science.

In 2009 he was visiting professor at the ETH Zurich .

He deals with the development of distributed systems such as computer networks ( peer-to-peer of the next generation), operating systems , multiprocessor systems and security issues. He describes himself as a generalist whose goal is the construction of robust, safe and efficient computer systems.

In 2005 he received the Mark Weiser Award and in the same year Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2014 he received the Usenix Lifetime Achievement Award and he received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award and the William R. Bennett Prize from the IEEE Communications Society. In 1994 he was a Sloan Fellow. In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

• with Michael Dahlin: Operating Systems: Principles and Practice, Recursive Books, 2nd edition 2014

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