Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle ast, is an American–Dutch computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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| Born | Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum March 16, 1944 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | Dutch / American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| 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 |
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.
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