Awards

IEEE Fellow (2004)
For leadership in reliable, scalable distributed computer systems.

Member - National Academy of Engineering (2/2004)
For the design, implentation and commercialization of reliable, scalable architectures for distributed file systems, transaction systems and other applications.

Tsutomu Kanai Award of the IEEE Computer Society (2001)
For technical leadership in the design and implementation of reliable, scalable architectures for supporting distributed files and distributed applications, and for pioneering in their commercialization.

Awards for Papers and Presentations

Distinguished Speaker Award, for "Outstanding Presentation", Stanford Computer Forum Lecture Series, 1986/87.

2 of 6 best papers at Tenth Symposium on Operating System Principles: Distributed Transactions for Reliable Systems and the ITC Distributed File System: Principles and Design.

1 of 5 or 6 best papers at best papers at Eighth Symposium on Operating System Principles: Performing Remote Operations Efficiently on a Local Computer Network.

Grants, Contracts, and Fellowships

Research on Wide Area File Systems, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1990-1992, (Alfred Z. Spector and Philip Lehman).

Research in Advanced Computational Environments, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, July 1988 to June 1990. Co-principle Investigator. (Alfred Z. Spector, Richard F. Rashid, Howard Wactlar)

Tools and Algorithms for Self-Securing Programs, National Computer Security Center, January 1988 to December 1989. Co-principle Investigator. (E. Douglas Tygar, Alfred Z. Spector)

Information Processing Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, June 1987 to May 1990. Co-principle Investigator. (Scott E. Fahlman, Allen Newell, Alfred Z. Spector)

Tools and Algorithms for Self-Securing Programs, National Computer Security Research in Advanced Computational Environments, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, July 1988 to June 1990. (Alfred Z. Spector, J. D. Tygar)

Research on Artificial Intelligence Systems, IBM Corporation, July 15, 1986 to July 15, 1989. Principal Investigator.

Research on High Performance Scientific Personal Computing Environments, IBM Academic Information Systems, February 15, 1984 to July 15, 1986. (Alfred Z. Spector, Scott E. Fahlman, Richard F. Rashid)

IBM Faculty Development Award, June 1, 1984 - May 31, 1986.

Joint Research on Common Lisp, IBM Corporation, June 1, 1984 - May 31, 1985. (Scott E. Fahlman, Alfred Z. Spector)

Research on Programming Available Systems, IBM Corporation, June 1, 1983 to May 31, 1984.

Joint Research on Communication in Distributed Systems, IBM Corporation, January 1, 1983 to December 31, 1983.

Joint Research on Communication in Distributed Systems, IBM Corporation, January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1982.

Ph.D. Students Graduated

Andrew B. Hastings, Transactional Distributed Shared Memory, July 1992.

Joshua J. Bloch, A Practical Approach to Replication of Abstract Data Objects. May 1990.

Michael Young, Exporting a User Interface to Memory Management from Communication-Oriented Operating Systems, co-advised with Rick Rashid. May 1989.

Daniel S. Duchamp, Transaction Management for Transaction Processing Systems. October 1988.

Dean J. Daniels, Distributed Logging for Transaction Processing. October 1988.

Jeffrey L. Eppinger, Virtual Memory Management for Transaction Processing Systems. September 1988.

Randy F. Pausch, Adding External Operations to the Transaction Model, June 1988.

Craig F. Everhart, Making Robust Programs, September 1985.

Michael L. Kazar, Automatic Distribution of Programs and Data in aDistributed Environment, September 1984.

Peter M. Schwarz, Transactions on Typed Objects, June 1984.