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<TITLE>Tom Anderson</TITLE>

<H1><!WA0><IMG SRC="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/csbrochure/faculty/photos/anderson.gif" ALT=""> Thomas Anderson</H1><br>
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Associate Professor<br>
625 Soda Hall<br>
Computer Science Division<br>
University of California<br>
Berkeley, CA 94720<br>
[phone]; fax: [phone]<br>
[e-mail]<br>
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While on sabbatical:<br>
Box 352350<br>
210 Sieg Hall<br>
Dept of Computer Science and Engineering<br>
University of Washington<br>
Seattle, WA 98195-2350<br>
206-543-4784; fax: [phone]<br>
[e-mail]<br>
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<H2>Awards</H2>
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   Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995<br>
   NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship, 1994<br>
   Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1994<br>
   NSF Young Investigator Award, 1992<br>
   IBM Graduate Ph.D. Fellowship, 1989<br>
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<H2>Award Papers</H2>
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    <DT>1995 ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles<br>
    <DT>1994 Hot Interconnects II<br>
    <DT>1993 Winter USENIX Conference<br>
    <DT>1992 ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming 
       <DD>Languages and Operating Systems<br>
    <DT>1991 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles<br>
    <DT>1989 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles<br>
    <DT>1989 ACM SIGMETRICS and Performance '89 Conference on 
       <DD>Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems<br>
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<H2>Professional Service</H2>
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    <DT>Program Committee Member, ACM ASPLOS Conference, 1996<br>
    <DT>Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE MICRO on Hot Interconnects, Feb. 1996<br>
    <DT>Program Committee Co-Chair, 1995 Hot Interconnects III<br>
    <DT>Program Committee Member, ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, 1995<br>
    <DT>Co-Chair, First Workshop on Networks of Workstations (NOW), 1994<br>
    <DT>Program Committee Member, ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, 1994<br>
    <DT>Member, NASA EOSDIS Alternative Architecture Panel, 1994<br>
    <DT>Program Committee Member, Fourteenth ACM Symposium on Operating 
	<DD>System Principles, 1993<br>
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<H2>Instructional Materials</H2>
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<!WA1><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/cs162sp96/">
CS 162 Home Page</A>: undergraduate operating systems materials
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<!WA2><A HREF="http://www.ufm.edu.gt/~obonilla/sopix">
CS 162 lecture notes, translated into Spanish</A>
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<!WA3><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/cs162sp95/">
Last year's CS 162 Home Page</A>
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<!WA4><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/nachos/">Nachos</A>: Instructional software for undergraduate and graduate operating systems courses
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<!WA5><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/c++example/">A quick introduction to C++</A>
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<!WA6><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/telebears">Instructions for navigating Telebears (for instructors)</A>
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<H2>Current Research</H2>
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<!WA7><A HREF="http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/">Berkeley NOW</A>: Software and hardware support for using a network of workstations as a distributed supercomputer.
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<!WA8><A HREF="http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Glunix/glunix.html">GLUnix (Global Layer UNIX)</A>: a virtual operating system layer for a NOW
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<!WA9><A HREF="http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Xfs/xfs.html">xFS</A>: serverless network file service
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<H2>Other Recent Research Projects</H2>
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<!WA10><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/atm.html">
ATM Switch Scheduling</A>
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<!WA11><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/rpc.html">
Fast Interprocess Communication</A>
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<!WA12><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/perf.html">Tools for Tuning Program Performance</A>
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<!WA13><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/interact.ps">
Interaction of Architecture and Operating Systems</A>
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<!WA14><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/mp.html">Operating System 
Support for Shared Memory Multiprocessing</A>
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<H2>Colleagues</H2>
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Faculty: 
<!WA15><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/csbrochure/faculty/patterson.html">
Dave Patterson</a> and
<!WA16><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/csbrochure/faculty/culler.html">
David Culler</a>
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Students: 
<!WA17><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~dahlin"> Mike Dahlin</a>,
<!WA18><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~ghorm"> Doug Ghormley</a>,
<!WA19><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~steverod"> Steve Rodrigues</a>,
<!WA20><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~drew"> Drew Roselli</a>,
<!WA21><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~vahdat"> Amin Vahdat</a>,
<!WA22><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~keithv"> Keith Vetter</a>,
<!WA23><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~rywang"> Randy Wang</a>, and
<!WA24><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~neefe"> Jeanna Neefe</a>
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<!WA25><a HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/grad.html">
Graduated students</a>
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<H2>Education</H2>
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1991, University of Washington.<br>
Dissertation Title: <I>Operating System Support for High Performance 
Multiprocessing</I>, supervised by 
Profs. <!WA26><A HREF="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/">Ed Lazowska</A> 
and <!WA27><A HREF="http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/levy.html">Hank Levy</A>. 
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M.S. in Computer Science, 1989, University of Washington.
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A.B. <I>cum laude</I> in Philosophy, 1983, Harvard University.
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<H2>Selected Publications</H2>
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C. Yoshikawa, B. Chun, P. Eastham, A. Vahdat, T. Anderson, and D. Culler.
``Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services.''
<I> To appear, Proc. of the 1997 USENIX Conference</I>, Jan. 1997.
<!WA28><A HREF="http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/SmartClients/usenix97.ps"> Postscript</A>.
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D. Petrou, D. Ghormley, and T. Anderson.
``Predictive State Restoration in Desktop Workstation Clusters.''
<I> Submitted for publication. </I>
<!WA29><A HREF="http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/Prepage/prepage.ps"> Postscript</A>.
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S. Rodrigues, T. Anderson, and D. Culler.
``High-Performance Local Area Communication with Fast Sockets.''
<I> To appear, Proc. of the 1997 USENIX Conference</I>, Jan. 1997.
<!WA30><A HREF="http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~steverod/pubs/usenix.ps"> Postscript</A>.
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J. Neefe, D. Roselli, R. Wang, T. Anderson, and M. Dahlin
``Improving the Performance of Log Structured File Systems.''
<I> Submitted for publication. </I>
<!WA31><A HREF="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~neefe/papers/osdi_submit.ps"> 
Postscript</A>.
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D. Ghormley, D. Petrou, and T. Anderson.
``SLIC: Secure Loadable Interposition Code.''
<I> Submitted for publication. </I>
<!WA32><A HREF="http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/Slic/slic96a.ps"> Postscript</A>.
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A. Vahdat, M. Dahlin, and T. Anderson.
``Turning the Web into a Computer.''
<I> Submitted for publication. </I>
<!WA33><A HREF="http://now.CS.Berkeley.EDU/WebOS/osdi96.ps"> Postscript</A>.
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T. Anderson, B. Bershad, E. Lazowska, and H. Levy.
``Thread Management for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors.'' 
<I>To appear, Handbook for Computer Science.</I>
<!WA34><A HREF="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/hb.ps"> Postscript</A>.
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M. Martonosi, A. Gupta, and T. Anderson. 
``Techniques for Analyzing and Tuning Memory Performance in 
Sequential and Parallel Programs.'' <I>Submitted for publication.</I>
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T. Anderson, M. Dahlin, J. Neefe, D. Roselli, D. Patterson, and R. Wang.
``Serverless Network File Systems.'' Selected as an <B>Award Paper</B>
to appear, <I> Proc. Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Operating System 
Principles</I>, December 1995.
<!WA35><A HREF="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dahlin/papers/tocs96.copyright.ps"> Postscript</A>.
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K. Keeton, T. Anderson, and D. Patterson.
``LogP Quantified: The Case for Low Overhead.''
<I>1995 Hot Interconnects III</I>, August 1995.
<!WA36><A HREF="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kkeeton/Papers/hoti-release.ps"> Postscript</A>.
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R. Arpaci, A. Dusseau, A. Vahdat, L. Liu, T. Anderson, and D. Patterson.  
``The Interaction of Parallel and Sequential Workloads on a
Network of Workstations.'' <I>Proc. 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS and
Performance '95 Conference on the Measurement and Modeling of 
Computer Systems</I>, May 1995, pp. 267-278.
<!WA37><A HREF="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tea/sigmetrics.ps"> Postscript</A>.
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M. Martonosi, A. Gupta, and T. Anderson.
``Tuning Memory Performance in Sequential and Parallel Programs.''
<I>IEEE Computer</I>, April 1995, pp. 32-40.
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T. Anderson, D. Culler, D. Patterson, and the NOW Team.
``A Case for NOW (Networks of Workstations).''
<I>IEEE Micro 15</I>, 1, February 1995, pp. 54-64.
Selected as an <B> Award Paper</B> in <I> 1994 Hot Interconnects II</I>, 
August 1994.
<!WA38><A HREF="http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Case/case.html">Paper and slides.</A>
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M. Dahlin, T. Anderson, D. Patterson, and R. Wang.  ``Cooperative Caching: 
Using Remote Client Memory to Improve File System Performance.''
<I>Proc. 1994 Operating Systems: Design and Implementation 
Conference</I>, November 1994, pp. 267-280.
<!WA39><A HREF="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dahlin/papers/osdi.ps">Postscript</A>.
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M. Dahlin, T. Anderson, C. Mather, D. Patterson and R. Wang.
``A Quantitative Analysis of Cache Policies for Scalable File Systems.''
<I> Proc. 1994 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference
on the Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems</I>, May 1994,
pp. 150-160.