James H. Anderson (computer scientist)

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James H. Anderson
OccupationProfessor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

James Hampton Anderson is a Kenan Professor in the computer science department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 [2] "for contributions to the implementation of soft-real-time systems on multiprocessor and multicore platforms", and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2013. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 [s.n.] (2014). Anderson Named ACM Fellow. News & Notes. UNC Department of Computer Science. (51 – Winter/Spring 2014).
  2. "2012 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory.