Back

The Swinging Light

Keep The Light On

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Author

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

16 March 1944

Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks, regarded as standard texts in the field. He regards his teaching job as his most important work. Since 2004 he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States.

Bibliography

Books

30 books

Computer Networks cover

Computer Networks

1981

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, John David Wetherall, David J. Wetherall, Nickolas Feamster, David Wetherall, James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross