Tom Anderson

About

Tom Anderson obtained his PhD in 1972 for work at Newcastle University on syntactic analysis, and joined the University's Computing Laboratory as a Research Associate investigating software fault tolerance. He spent 1978-79 at NASA's Langley Research Center, and then became Lecturer, and then Professor of Computing Science at Newcastle in 1987. From 1980 onwards he acted as PI for a series of major research projects, including a large-scale experimental evaluation of software fault tolerance techniques and a 17 year industrially funded project on dependable systems. In 1984 he established the Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) at Newcastle, operating in conjunction with a sister centre at City University; he was the CSR Director until 2012. From 1992-97 he was Head of Computing Science;

Education

• PhD, Newcastle University, 1972

Selected publications

• Anderson T, Feng M, Riddle S, Romanovsky A. Wrapping it up. Safety Systems 2003
• Saeed A, de Lemos R, Anderson T. On the Safety Analysis of Requirements Specifications for Safety-Critical Software. ISA Transactions 1995
• de Lemos R, Saeed A, Anderson T. Analyzing Safety Requirements for Process-Control Systems. IEEE Software 1995
• Littlewood B, Anderson T, Bloomfield R, Malcolm R. Special Issue on Software Safety. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 1994
• Saeed A, de Lemos R, Anderson T. Formal Techniques for Requirements Analysis for Safe Reactor Control. The Nuclear Engineer 1993
• de Lemos R, Saeed A, Anderson T. A Train Set as a Case Study for the Requirements Analysis of Safety-Critical Systems. The Computer Journal 1992
• Lee PA, Anderson T. Principles of Fault Tolerance in Computing Systems. Journal of Communications Technology 1990
• Anderson T, Barrett PA, Halliwell DN, Moulding MR. Software Fault Tolerance: An Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 1985
• Anderson T. Can Design Faults be Tolerated?. Software & Microsystems 1985
• Anderson T, Knight JC. A Framework for Software Fault Tolerance in Real-Time Systems. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 1983