Andrew Tanenbaum

Name: Andrew Stuart (Andy) Tanenbaum

Born: March 16, 1944, in New York, United States

Computer-related contributions

• American computer scientist best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes.
• He is professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His computer science textbooks are regarded as standard texts in the field.
• His book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation and MINIX were Linus Torvalds' inspiration for the Linux kernel.

Significant publications

• Computer Networks, (co-authored with David J. Wetherall).
• Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (co-authored with Albert Woodhull).
• Modern Operating Systems.
• Distributed Operating Systems.
• Structured Computer Organization.
• Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, (co-authored with Maarten van Steen).

Honors and awards

• Winner of the 2003 TAA McGuffey award for classic textbooks for Computer Networks.
• Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Fellow of the IEEE.
• Fellow of the ACM.