Andrew S. Tanenbaum
| Andrew S. Tanenbaum | |
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Computer scientist, Professor Andy Tanenbaum of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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| Born |
March 16, 1944 New York City, United States |
| Residence | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Distributed computing Operating systems |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| 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 Sape Mullender Robbert van Renesse Leendert van Doorn Werner Vogels |
| Known for |
MINIX Microkernels Electoral-vote.com |
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Website www www |
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Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his 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.
Tanenbaum was born in New York City and grew up in suburban White Plains, New York.
He received his bachelor of Science degree in Physics from MIT in 1965 and his Ph.D. degree in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. Tanenbaum also served as a lobbyist for the Sierra Club.
He moved to the Netherlands to live with his wife, who is Dutch, but he retains his United States citizenship. He teaches courses about Computer Organization and Operating Systems and supervises the work of Ph.D. candidates at the VU University Amsterdam. On 9 July 2014, he announced his retirement.
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