Tom Anderson

Awards

• National Academy of Engineering, 2016
• USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014
• USENIX Software Tools User Group Award, 2014
  with Mic Bowman, David Culler, Larry Peterson, and Timothy Roscoe, for PlanetLab.
• IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, 2012
• ACM/SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, 2005
• ACM Fellow, 2005
• Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995
• NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship, 1994

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1994

• NSF Young Investigator Award, 1992

Award Papers

• ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award
  Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation
  

• Best Paper, 2014 OSDI
  Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane
  

• Best Paper, 2013 NSDI
  F10: Fault Tolerant Engineered Networks
  

• Award Paper, HPDC. Selected as one of the best twenty papers in last twenty years at HPDC.
  WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide Area Applications
  

• Best Paper, 2010 NSDI
  Reverse Traceroute
  
• Best Paper, 2009 IMC
  Moving Beyond End-to-End Path Information to Optimize CDN Performance
  
• Best Paper, 2008 NSDI
  Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System
  
• Best Student Paper, 2007 NSDI
  Do Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent?
  
• 2005 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize
  for the best original paper published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in 2004
  Measuring ISP Topologies with Rocketfuel
  
• Best Student Paper, 2003 USITS
  Scriptroute: A Facility for Distributed Internet Measurement
  
• Award Paper, 1998 Hot Interconnects
  Detour: Informed Internet Routing and Transport
• Award Paper, 1997 SOSP
  Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multi-Threaded Programs
  
• Award Paper, 1996 Hot Chips
  A Case for Intelligent RAM: IRAM
  
• Award Paper, 1995 SOSP
  Serverless Network File Systems
  
• Award Paper, 1994 Hot Interconnects
  A Case for NOW (Networks of Workstations)
  
• Best Student Paper, 1993 Summer USENIX Conference
  Anonymous RPC: Low Latency Protection in a 64-Bit Address Space
  
• Best Paper, 1993 Winter USENIX Conference
  The Nachos Instructional Operating System
  
• Award Paper, 1992 ASPLOS
  High Speed Switch Scheduling for Local Area Networks
  
• Award Paper, 1991 SOSP
  Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level Management of Parallelism
  
• Award Paper, 1989 SOSP
  Lightweight Remote Procedure Call
  
• Award Paper, 1989 SIGMETRICS
  The Performance Implications of Thread Management Alternatives for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors