Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Alfred Zalmon Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager.Spector received his Bachelor of Arts degree in applied Mathematics from Harvard University.He received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1981, where his research included measurements of remote procedure call operations on experimental Ethernet.His dissertation was titled Multiprocessing Architectures for Local Computer Networks, and advisor was Forest Baskett III.Spector was an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). While there, he served as doctoral advisor to Randy Pausch, Jeff Eppinger and Joshua Bloch and seven others.Spector was a founder of Transarc Corporation in 1989 which built and sold distributed transaction processing and wide area file systems software, commercializing the Andrew File System developed at CMU. After Transarc was acquired by IBM, he became a researcher and software executive there, including the position of vice president of strategy and technology within IBM's Software Group.He remained an advisor to CMU.In 2001, Spector received the IEEE Computer Society's Tsutomu Kanai Award for his contributions to distributed computing systems and applications. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He also served on the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age that focused on how to use information and information technology to improve national security while protecting traditional civil liberties.Spector joined Google as vice president of research in November 2007.. }
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- Alfred_Spector abstract "Alfred Zalmon Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager.Spector received his Bachelor of Arts degree in applied Mathematics from Harvard University.He received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1981, where his research included measurements of remote procedure call operations on experimental Ethernet.His dissertation was titled Multiprocessing Architectures for Local Computer Networks, and advisor was Forest Baskett III.Spector was an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). While there, he served as doctoral advisor to Randy Pausch, Jeff Eppinger and Joshua Bloch and seven others.Spector was a founder of Transarc Corporation in 1989 which built and sold distributed transaction processing and wide area file systems software, commercializing the Andrew File System developed at CMU. After Transarc was acquired by IBM, he became a researcher and software executive there, including the position of vice president of strategy and technology within IBM's Software Group.He remained an advisor to CMU.In 2001, Spector received the IEEE Computer Society's Tsutomu Kanai Award for his contributions to distributed computing systems and applications. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He also served on the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age that focused on how to use information and information technology to improve national security while protecting traditional civil liberties.Spector joined Google as vice president of research in November 2007.".