, professor at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering, and , professor of chemistry, join 228 new academy members this year.

鈥淚t is an honor to welcome this new class of exceptional women and men as part of our distinguished membership,鈥� said Don Randel, chair of the Academy鈥檚 Board of Directors. 鈥淭heir talents and expertise will enrich the life of the Academy and strengthen our capacity to spread knowledge and understanding in service to the nation.鈥�

Anderson has made numerous, fundamental contributions to the field of computing in a research career that spans more than 25 years and has yielded more than 20 award papers. Anderson鈥檚 work has advanced a variety of significant areas, including operating systems, distributed systems, computer networks, multiprocessors and security. Recently, he has turned his attention to improving the performance of communication-intensive data center applications.

This latest honor follows Anderson鈥檚 鈥� one of the highest professional honors bestowed upon an engineer 鈥� as well as an impressive string of awards that includes the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers & Communication Award, the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award and election as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Goldberg鈥檚 research focuses on designing more efficient catalysts, or compounds that increase the rates of chemical reactions. Better catalysts can transform industrial production methods for everything from pharmaceuticals to construction materials.

Goldberg鈥檚 approach is to gather detailed data on the mechanisms by which certain chemical reactions occur and synthesize the desired products. This information is crucial to help develop catalysts that are more precise in the types of chemical products they yield, and more efficient and sustainable in terms of the amount of materials and energy used.

Goldberg also serves as director of the National Science Foundation-funded , a consortium of 20 faculty members and research labs at more than a dozen universities and research institutions that are pursuing innovative approaches to catalysis. Goldberg is a member of the , a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2016 received the .

Founded in 1780, the is one of the country鈥檚 oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, convening leaders from the academic, business and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing the nation and the world. Current research focuses on higher education, the humanities, and the arts; science and technology policy; global security and energy; and American institutions and the public good.

Members of the 2017 class include winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the Wolf Prize; MacArthur fellows; Fields medalists; Presidential Medal of Freedom and National Medal of Arts recipients; and Academy Award, Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award winners. A full list can be found .

, a 天美影视传媒 professor of computer science and engineering and alumnus, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.聽 Also elected are UW civil engineering alumnus and computer science alumnus .

They are among 80 new members and 22 foreign associates announced today. Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.

In electing Anderson, the academy cited his “contributions to the design of resilient and efficient distributed computer systems.鈥�

Anderson’s research interests span all aspects of building practical, robust, and efficient computer systems 鈥� including distributed systems, operating systems, computer networks, multiprocessors, security and educational software.

His recent work has focused on high-performance operating systems to better support network intensive data center applications. Other research areas include the verification of the implementations of distributed systems, innovative data center network topologies and ways to improve Internet reliability and security.

Anderson has been a member of the UW faculty since 1997 and currently holds the Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Endowed Chair. Before joining the UW, he held faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley.

Anderson graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. He then earned his master鈥檚 and doctorate degrees in computer science and engineering from the UW.

He is the winner of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award, the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award and the IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize. He is an ACM Fellow, past program chair of SIGCOMM and SOSP, and he has co-authored 21 award papers.

In addition to his academic publications, Anderson is co-author of a widely used undergraduate operating systems textbook, 鈥�.鈥� He has also developed courseware for teaching undergraduate operating systems and operating network classes.

Magnusson, who serves on the UW College of Engineering’s Visiting Committee and the UW Foundation Board, graduated in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He is the former chairman and CEO and currently senior principal at Magnusson Klemencic Associates, an international award-winning structural and civil engineering firm in Seattle.

Magnusson led MKA as the firm worked on projects in 47 states and 49 countries, totaling over $73 billion worth of projects designed. He has worked on major sports stadiums, health care facilities, signature convention centers and high-rise buildings across the country. He has also been responsible for the structure of Seattle landmarks including the Experience Music Project, Benaroya Hall, Safeco Field, Seahawks Stadium and the Seattle Central Library.

Magnusson was cited by the NAE 鈥渇or building designs that enable high-rise buildings in seismic sensitive regions and for innovations in modern structural engineering practice worldwide.”

Greenberg, who received a master’s degree in computer science from the UW in 1981 and a Ph.D. in 1983, was cited for “contributions to the theory and practice of operating large carrier and data center networks.鈥�

He is a distinguished engineer and director of Azure Networking at Microsoft, where he leads software and hardware development and engineering for Microsoft’s networks. He has been recognized for pioneering the theory and practice of operating carrier and data center networks, as well as advances in cloud computing.

For more information, contact Anderson at tom@cs.washington.edu.

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