Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Computer Scientist
1944 –
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Who is Andrew S. Tanenbaum?
Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum is an American computer scientist and professor 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.
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- Born
- Mar 16, 1944
New York City - Also known as
- Andrew Tanenbaum
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics
( - 1965) - Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley
Physics
( - 1971)
- Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Vrije Universiteit
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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