Andy Tanenbaum | |
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Born | Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum March 16, 1944 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | MINIX Microkernels Electoral-vote.com |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Distributed computing[1][2] Operating systems[3][4] |
Thesis | A Study of the Five Minute Oscillations, Supergranulation, and Related Phenomena in the Solar Atmosphere (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | John M. Wilcox |
Doctoral students | Henri Bal Frans Kaashoek Werner Vogels[5] |
Website | cs pearsonhighered |
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle AST,[6] is an American 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.