Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum （born March 16, 1944）, sometimes referred to by the handle ast, is an American-Dutch Physicist and Professor emeritus of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 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.
Tanenbaum was born in New York City and grew up in suburban White Plains, New York.
He is Jewish.
His paternal grandfather was born in Khorostkiv in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
He received BS degree in Physics from MIT in 1965 and Ph.
D. degree in Astrophysics from University of California, Berkeley in 1971.
Tanenbaum also served as a lobbyist for the Sierra Club.
He moved to Netherlands to live with his wife, who is Dutch, but he retains his United States citizenship.
He teaches courses about Computer Organization and Operating Systems and supervises the work of Ph.
D. candidates at VU University Amsterdam.
On 9 July 2014, he announced his retirement.
Tanenbaum is well recognized for his textbooks on computer science.
They include: His book, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation and MINIX were Linus Torvalds' inspiration for the Linux kernel.
In his autobiography Just for Fun, Torvalds describes it as "the book that launched me to new heights".
His books have been translated into many languages including ...