Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Andy Tanenbaum
Tanenbaum in 2012
Born
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum

(1944-03-16) March 16, 1944 (age 80)
New York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityDutch[citation needed] / American
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Known forMINIX
Microkernels
Electoral-vote.com
Scientific career
FieldsDistributed computing[1][2]
Operating systems[3][4]
ThesisA Study of the Five Minute Oscillations, Supergranulation, and Related Phenomena in the Solar Atmosphere (1971)
Doctoral advisorJohn M. Wilcox
Doctoral studentsHenri Bal
Frans Kaashoek
Werner Vogels[5]
Websitecs.vu.nl/~ast
pearsonhighered.com/tanenbaum

Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle ast,[6] is an American–Dutch computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.[7][8]

He is the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and has written multiple computer science textbooks regarded as standard texts in the field. He regards his teaching job as his most important work.[9] Since 2004 he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States.

  1. ^ Bal, H. E.; Steiner, J. G.; Tanenbaum, A. S. (1989). "Programming languages for distributed computing systems". ACM Computing Surveys. 21 (3): 261. doi:10.1145/72551.72552. hdl:1871/2587. S2CID 8028479. Archived from the original on April 17, 2024. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
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  5. ^ Vogels, Werner (2003). Scalable Cluster Technologies for Mission Critical Enterprise Computing (PhD thesis). Vrije Universiteit. hdl:1871/10357.
  6. ^ A. S. Tanenbaum (January 29, 1992). "LINUX is obsolete". Newsgroupcomp.os.minix. Usenet: 12595@star.cs.vu.nl. Archived from the original on January 22, 2011. Retrieved November 27, 2006.
  7. ^ Works by Andrew S. Tanenbaum at Open Library
  8. ^ Andrew S. Tanenbaum at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  9. ^ 2004 article Archived May 24, 2004, at the Wayback Machine about Linux, the Usenet debate, and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

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