Tannenbaum song

Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944) is an American computer scientist living 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.

Quotes

• I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.
  • Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2 [1].

• Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
  • Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)

• Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
  • "Some Notes on the 'Who Wrote Linux' Kerfuffle", release 1.5 [2].
• Many security texts decompose the security of an information system in three components: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Together, they are often referred to as "CIA". [They] constitute the core security pro
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  Department of Computer Science

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Home Page

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  In principle, I retired on 23 Oct. 2014, but in reality it was a slow departure. But we did have a nice party.
  
  Some people in the Dept. asked a number of my current and former students, postdocs, and colleagues near and far to describe me in one word and also to give an extended description in 30 seconds. These video clips were assembled and put on YouTube:
  
  
  

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  MINIX 3, a highly-reliable operating system based on a tiny (13,000-line) kernel, is now available. It runs on x86 and ARM CPUs so it is good for desktop as well as embedded systems. To download it for free, go to www.minix3.org.

  
  
  
  

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  HONORS

  • Somebody went to the trouble of making me a page on Wikipedia
  • Fellow of the IEEE
  • Fellow of the ACM
  • Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • ACM Software System Award
  • Eurosys Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015
  • Honorary Doctorate from Petru Maior Univer
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    Andrew S. Tanenbaum

    American-Dutch computer scientist (born 1944)

    Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle AST,^[6] is an American-bornDutchcomputer scientist and retired professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.^[7][8]

    He is the author of MINIX, a free Unix-likeoperating 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.^[9] Since 2004 he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States.

    Biography

    Tanenbaum was born in New York City and grew up in suburban White Plains, New York, where he attended the White Plains High School.^[10] His paternal grandfather was born in Khorostkiv in the Austro-Hungarian empire.^[10]

    He received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from MIT in 1965 and his Doctor of Philosophy