Andrew S. Tanenbaum
1944
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country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, White Plains High School
occupation: computer scientist, engineer, programmer, academic, professor, writer, physicist
award received: IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, Akademiehoogleraren Prize, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education
official website: www.cs.vu.nl/~ast
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. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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