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Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle AST, is an American-born Dutch computer scientist and retired professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and has written multiple 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew S. Tanenbaum is the 20th most popular computer scientist (down from 12th in 2019), the 1,499th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,105th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum is most famous for his work in computer science, specifically in the development of MINIX, a Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Andrew S. Tanenbaum ranks 20 out of 245. Before him are Lotfi A. Zadeh, Linus Torvalds, Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, John Cocke, and Don Norman. After him are John Backus, Ken Thompson, Alan Kay, Dorothy Vaughan, Vint Cerf, and Larry Page.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Andrew S. Tanenbaum ranks 96. Before him are Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Michelle Phillips, Sam Elliott, Bora Milutinović, Nebahat Çehre, and Klaus Nomi. After him are Moe Tucker, Kary Mullis, W. G. Sebald, Killing of Peter Fechter, Karin Schubert, and Salvador Sánchez Cerén.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andrew S. Tanenbaum ranks 1,499 out of 20,380. Before him are Kathryn Bigelow (1951), James Garner (1928), Sean Combs (1969), Ed Wood (1924), Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (1920), and Sean Baker (1971). After him are Arthur Penn (1922), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Elisha Otis (1811), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), Moe Tucker (1944), and Kim Kardashian (1980).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Andrew S. Tanenbaum ranks 12. Before him are Frances E. Allen (1932), Donald Knuth (1938), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Marvin Minsky (1927), John Cocke (1925), and Don Norman (1935). After him are John Backus (1924), Ken Thompson (1943), Alan Kay (1940), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Vint Cerf (1943), and Larry Page (1973).

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