12 Facts About Alfred Spector

Alfred Zalmon Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager.

Alfred Spector is a visiting scholar in the MIT EECS Department and was previously CTO of Two Sigma Investments.

Alfred Spector's research explored communication architectures for building multiprocessors out of network-linked computers and included measurements of remote procedure call operations on experimental Ethernet.

Alfred Spector's dissertation was titled Multiprocessing Architectures for Local Computer Networks, and his advisor was Forest Baskett III.

Alfred Spector was an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Alfred 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.

Alfred Spector joined Google as vice president of research in November 2007 and retired in early 2015.

Alfred Spector has served on the National Academy Computer Science and Telecommunication Board from 2006 to 2013 and chaired the Computer Science and Engineering Section of the National Academy of Engineering.

Alfred Spector has written and spoken on diverse topics related to computer science and engineering.

Since 2016 Alfred Spector advocated for a balanced and critical perspective on data science, and in the presentation Opportunities and Perils in Data Science, he argued for a trans-disciplinary study of data science that includes the humanities and social sciences.

Alfred Spector was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Alfred Spector was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2006 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and serves on its council.