Thomas E. Anderson

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Tom Anderson
Born (1961-08-28) August 28, 1961 (age 63)
CitizenshipUSA
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
Website www.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.

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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

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