Andrew S. Tanenbaum: Where Are We Going?
Biography
Andrew S. Tanenbaum was born in New York City and raised in White Plains, NY. He
has an S.B.from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at
Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije
Universiteit in Amsterdam.
Prof. Tanenbaum is the principal designer of
three operating systems: Amoeba, MINIX, and Globe. Amoeba is a
distributed operating systems for SUN, VAX, and similar workstation computers.
MINIX is a small operating system designed for high reliability and embedded
applications as well as for teaching. Globe is a distributed operating
system.
In addition, Tanenbaum is the author or coauthor of five
books:
"Distributed Systems" (with Maarten van Steen)
"Modern Operating Systems"
"Structured Computer
Organization"
"Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" (with
Albert S. Woodhull)
"Computer Networks"
These books have been
translated into 20 languages and are used all over the world. Tanenbaum has
also published more than 125 refereed papers on a variety of subjects and has
lectured in a dozen countries on many topics.
Tanenbaum is a Fellow of
the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of
Sciences. In 1994 he was the recipient of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom
Outstanding Educator Award. In 1997 he won the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding
Contributions to Computer Science. In 2006 he was awarded the IEEE James H.
Mulligan, Jr. medal for outstanding contributions to computer education.
