Thomas E. Anderson

Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson
Born	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;
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.

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

Website	www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/tom/