Dr. David Anderson
Dr. David Anderson is 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.
In 2002 he created the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing project, which develops an open-source software
platform for volunteer computing. BOINC is used by about 100 projects, including SETI@home, Einstein@home, Rosetta@home,
Climateprediction.net, and the IBM World Community Grid. It is used as a platform for several distributed applications
in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics.
Dr.Anderson was involved in Stardust@home, which used 23,000 volunteers to identify interstellar dust particles via the
Web - an approach called distributed thinking. In 2007 Anderson launched two new software projects: Bossa (middleware
for distributed thinking), and Bolt (a framework for web-based training and education in the context of volunteer
computing and distributed thinking).
As a distinguished computer scientist, with a wealth of experience in distributed computing and building large scale
solutions like BOINC, Dr. Anderson, among many other things would provide StrideAware great perspective in terms of
deploying solutions at massive scale.