David P. Anderson
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| Born | 1955 (age 61–62) Oakland, California, USA |
| Residence | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Wesleyan University University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Thesis | A Grammar Based Methodology for Protocol Specification and Implementation (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lawrence Landweber |
| Doctoral students | Shin-Yuan Tzou, Ramesh Govindan |
| Known for | Volunteer computing |
| Notable awards | NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award IBM Faculty Development Grant |
David Pope Anderson (born 1955) is an American research scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston. Anderson leads the SETI@home, BOINC, Bossa and Bolt software projects.
Anderson received a BA in Mathematics from Wesleyan University, and MS and PhD degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. While in graduate school he published four research papers in computer graphics. His PhD research involved using enhanced attribute grammars to specify and implement communication protocols.
From 1985 to 1992 he was an Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley Computer Science Department, where he received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator and IBM Faculty Development awards. During this period he conducted several research projects:
From 1992 to 1994 he worked at Sonic Solutions, where he developed Sonic System, the first distributed system for professional digital audio editing.
In 1994 he invented "Virtual Reality Television", a television system allowing viewers to control their virtual position and orientation. He was awarded a patent for this invention in 1996.
In 1994 he developed one of the first systems for collaborative filtering, and developed a web site, rare.com, that provided movie recommendations based on the user's movie ratings.
From 1995 to 1998 he was Chief Technical Officer of Tunes.com, where he developed web-based systems for music discovery based on collaborative filtering, acoustics, and other models.
In 1995 he joined David Gedye and Dan Werthimer in creating SETI@home, an early volunteer computing project. Anderson continues to direct SETI@home.
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