Awarded ACM Software System Award (2023).
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum, sometimes referred to by the handle AST, is an American-born Dutch computer scientist and retired professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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Born 16 March 1944 · Q92621
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2023· 1 entry
2011· 1 entry
Universitatea Petru Maior din Târgu Mureș (Petru Maior University of Târgu Mureș) granted Tanenbaum the Doctor Honoris Causa (honorary doctorate) title for his work in the field of computer science and achievements in ed
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2010· 1 entry
Correctly projected 35 out of 37 Senate races in the Midterm elections on the website
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2008· 1 entry
Tanenbaum received an honorary doctorate from Universitatea Politehnica din București
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2007· 1 entry
Won IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal (2007).
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2004· 3 entries
The day before the election, and also stating his reasons and qualifications for running the website
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Awarded Akademiehoogleraren Prize (2004).
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Tanenbaum created Electoral-vote
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education (1997).
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1991· 1 entry
Torvalds announced his own (POSIX-like) kernel, called Linux, which originally used the MINIX file system but is not based on MINIX code
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1987· 1 entry
Tanenbaum wrote a clone of UNIX, called MINIX (MINi-unIX), for the IBM PC
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1984· 2 entries
“However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.”
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“Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.”
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1971· 1 entry
Studied at University of California, Berkeley, doctorate (1971).
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1965· 2 entries
And his Doctor of Philosophy degree in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971
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Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science (1965).
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1944· 2 entries
And grew up in suburban White Plains, New York, where he attended the White Plains High School
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Born 1944-03-16.
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