[2] His research explored communication architectures for building multiprocessors out of network-linked computers and included measurements of remote procedure call operations on experimental Ethernet.

[3] His dissertation was titled Multiprocessing Architectures for Local Computer Networks, and his advisor was Forest Baskett III.

[22] As a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in the 2018–19 academic year, Spector has presented these positions at various universities around the United States.

[4] He was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2006[4] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and serves on its council.

[26] Alfred appears in the Institutional Investor 2017 Tech 40[27] and was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar during the 2018–19 academic year.