Thomas E. Anderson

Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson
Born	August 28, 1961; Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Citizenship	US
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	Ratul Mahajan; Margaret Martonosi; Stefan Savage; Amin Vahdat;
Website	www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/tom/

Thomas Edward Anderson (born August 28, 1961), commonly known as Tom Anderson, is an American computer scientist noted for his research on distributed computing, networking and operating systems.