Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andy Tanenbaum | |
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Tanenbaum in 2012 | |
| Born | Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum March 16, 1944 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | MIT (BS) UC Berkeley (PhD) |
| Known for | MINIX Microkernels Electoral-vote.com |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Distributed computing Operating systems |
| 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 |
| Website | cs pearsonhighered |
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle AST, is an American-born Dutch computer scientist and retired professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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. Since 2004 he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States.