About the Author
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 and implementation of wide-area distributed
systems that scales to a billion users. This research, being done together with
Prof. Maarten van Steen, is described at www.cs.vu.nl/globe. Together,
all these research projects have led to over 100 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. This system provided
the inspiration and base on which Linux was developed. 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.
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