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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyWhite Plains High School
- Awards
- 🏆 ACM Software System Award🏆 Akademiehoogleraren Prize🏆 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal🏆 SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 John M. Wilcox
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Werner Vogels📖 Henri Bal
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown firstWorks & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1944
Born
Birth
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Andrew's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Andrew's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Andrew S. Tanenbaum is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and relig…"
— Freeman Dyson"If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a …"
— Kim Stanley Robinson"It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the diffi…"
— Kenneth E. Iverson"Physics is always a gamble; it is a game of exploration. That’s the fun of it. We never know for sure what …"
— David Gross"It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human aff…"
— Albert Barnes"There is nothing as uplifting and inspiring as the Upanishads."
— Subhash Kak
