Alfred Spector

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alfred Z. Spector has been Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google since November 2007. Prior to that he was a researcher and software executive at IBM. For several years, he was in charge of all of IBM's software research, including the position of Vice President of Strategy and Technology within IBM's Software Group. Spector was a founder of Transarc Corporation which built and sold distributed transaction processing and wide area file systems software. Prior to founding Transarc, Spector was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. While there, he served as doctoral advisor to Randy Pausch.