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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the design of resilient and efficient distributed computer systems.

Overview

Thomas Anderson is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans across the fields of Chemistry and Computer Science, with a total of eleven publications focusing on Chemistry and ten on Computer Science. Within these disciplines, the primary subfields of study include Organic Chemistry, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics of Thomas Anderson's work feature:

  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds

Thomas Anderson's recent publications include:

  • Strain-Promoted Oxidation of Methylenecyclopropane Derivatives using N-Hydroxyphthalimide and Molecular Oxygen in the Dark, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Chemiluminescence-promoted oxidation of alkyl enol ethers by NHPI under mild conditions and in the dark, 2020, Tetrahedron
  • Scalable Tail Latency Estimation for Data Center Networks, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Probing the alkylidene carbene-strained alkyne equilibrium in polycyclic systems via the Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell rearrangement, 2024, Nature Communications

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Organic Letters
  • Tetrahedron
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemical Communications

Thomas Anderson has collaborated with several co-authors on multiple occasions. The most frequent collaborators are:

  • Prateesh Goyal
  • Mohammad Alizadeh
  • K. A. Woerpel
  • Dasan M. Thamattoor
  • David Lee Phillips

The scientist has received recognition in the form of awards that include being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. Additionally, they were elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for contributions related to the design of resilient and efficient distributed computer systems.

Best Publications

  • OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks

    Nick McKeown;Tom Anderson;Hari Balakrishnan;Guru Parulkar

  • Measuring ISP topologies with Rocketfuel

    Neil Spring;Ratul Mahajan;David Wetherall;Thomas Anderson

  • Serverless Network File Systems

    T. E. Anderson;M. D. Dahlin;J. M. Neefe;D. A. Patterson

  • Eraser: a dynamic data race detector for multithreaded programs

    Stefan Savage;Michael Burrows;Greg Nelson;Patrick Sobalvarro

  • Practical network support for IP traceback

    Stefan Savage;David Wetherall;Anna Karlin;Tom Anderson

  • Efficient software-based fault isolation

    Robert Wahbe;Steven Lucco;Thomas E. Anderson;Susan L. Graham

  • A case for NOW (Networks of Workstations)

    T.E. Anderson;D.E. Culler;D. Patterson

  • Overcoming the Internet impasse through virtualization

    T. Anderson;L. Peterson;S. Shenker;J. Turner

  • High-speed switch scheduling for local-area networks

    Thomas E. Anderson;Susan S. Owicki;James B. Saxe;Charles P. Thacker

  • A blueprint for introducing disruptive technology into the Internet

    Larry Peterson;Tom Anderson;David Culler;Timothy Roscoe

  • A case for intelligent RAM

    D. Patterson;T. Anderson;N. Cardwell;R. Fromm

  • Scheduler activations: effective kernel support for the user-level management of parallelism

    Thomas E. Anderson;Brian N. Bershad;Edward D. Lazowska;Henry M. Levy

  • The performance of spin lock alternatives for shared-money multiprocessors

    T.E. Anderson

  • Arrakis: The Operating System Is the Control Plane

    Simon Peter;Jialin Li;Irene Zhang;Dan R. K. Ports

  • Network support for IP traceback

    Stefan Savage;David Wetherall;Anna Karlin;Tom Anderson

  • A comparison of file system workloads

    Drew Roselli;Jacob R. Lorch;Thomas E. Anderson

  • Cooperative caching: using remote client memory to improve file system performance

    Michael D. Dahlin;Randolph Y. Wang;Thomas E. Anderson;David A. Patterson

  • Understanding BGP misconfiguration

    Ratul Mahajan;David Wetherall;Tom Anderson

  • Modeling TCP latency

    N. Cardwell;S. Savage;T. Anderson

  • iPlane: an information plane for distributed services

    Harsha V. Madhyastha;Tomas Isdal;Michael Piatek;Colin Dixon

  • A case for NOW (networks of workstation)

    David A. Patterson;David E. Culler;Thomas E. Anderson

  • Eraser: a dynamic data race detector for multi-threaded programs

    Stefan Savage;Michael Burrows;Greg Nelson;Patrick Sobalvarro

Frequent Co-Authors

Arvind Krishnamurthy
Arvind Krishnamurthy University of Washington
David Wetherall
David Wetherall Google (United States)
David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley
Amin Vahdat
Amin Vahdat Google (United States)
Brian N. Bershad
Brian N. Bershad University of Washington
Mike Dahlin
Mike Dahlin The University of Texas at Austin
David E. Culler
David E. Culler University of California, Berkeley
Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego
Ratul Mahajan
Ratul Mahajan University of Washington
Henry M. Levy
Henry M. Levy University of Washington

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