MODERN OPERATING SYSTEMS SECOND EDITION by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum has an S.B. degree 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, The Netherlands,
where he heads the Computer Systems Group. He is also Dean of the Advanced
School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate school doing
research on advanced parallel, distributed, and imaging systems. Nevertheless,
he is trying very hard to avoid turning into a bureaucrat.
In the past, he has done research on compilers, operating systems,
networking, and local-area distributed systems. His current research focuses
primarily on the design of wide-area distributed systems that scale to a billion
users. These research projects have led to over 85 refereed papers in journals
and conference proceedings and five books.
Prof. Tanenbaum has also produced a considerable volume of
software. He was the principal architect of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, a
widely-used toolkit for writing portable compilers, as well as of MINIX, a small
UNIX clone intended for use in student programming labs. Together with his Ph.D.
students and programmers, he helped design the Amoeba distributed operating
system, a high-performance microkernel-based distributed operating system. The
MINIX and Amoeba systems are now available for free via the Internet.
His Ph.D. students have gone on to greater glory after getting
their degrees. He is very proud of them. In this respect he resembles a mother
hen.
Prof. Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the the IEEE,
a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, winner of the
1994 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and winner of the 1997
ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. He
is also listed in
Who’s Who in the World. His home page on the World Wide
Web can be found at URL
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/ .
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