David P. Anderson

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David Pope Anderson (born 1955) is a scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley. Anderson leads the SETI@home and BOINC projects. SETI@home is a large distributed computing project and BOINC is an open-source software system for creating distributed computing 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. 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. His research focused on distributed systems for handling digital audio and video in real time. He later worked at Sonic Solutions, where he developed the first distributed system for digital audio editing, and at Tunes.com, where he developed web-based systems for music discovery based on psychometrics, acoustics, and other models. In 1995 he joined David Gedye in creating SETI@home. From 2000 to 2002, he served as CTO of United Devices. In 2002 he created the BOINC project which is a software platform for allowing several distributing computing projects like SETI@home and Climateprediction.net to run on participants computers. The system should allow new distributed computing projects to start up more easily.