Tom Anderson

	Position:	Professor, Director of CSR
	E-mail:	tom.anderson ncl.ac.uk
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	Mail:	School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU United Kingdom
	Office:	Room 1115C , Claremont Tower

Brief Biography

Tom Anderson obtained his PhD in Computing Science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1972. He then joined the staff of the University's Computing Laboratory as a Research Associate working on the development of recovery blocks and multi-level recovery. He spent 1978-79 at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia investigating fault tolerance for flight software, and then became first a Lecturer, and then Professor of Computing Science at Newcastle.

From 1980 onwards he has acted as Principal Investigator for a series of major research projects, including a major experimental evaluation of software fault tolerance techniques and a ten-year project on dependable avionic systems.

From 1992-97 he was Head of Department for Computing Science; from 1998-2002 he was Dean of the Faculty of Science.

Publications

A list of publications by Tom Anderson is available.

Research Groups

Tom is a member of the [ Dependability ] research group(s)

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