Tanenbaum's textbooks on computer science include: On July 9, 2014, he announced his retirement. He taught courses on Computer Organization and Operating Systems and supervised the work of PhD candidates at the VU University Amsterdam. He moved to the Netherlands to live with his wife, who is Dutch, but he retains his United States citizenship. Tanenbaum also served as a lobbyist for the Sierra Club.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from MIT in 1965 and his PhD degree in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. His paternal grandfather was born in Khorostkiv in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Tanenbaum was born in New York City and grew up in suburban White Plains, New York, where he attended the White Plains High School. Since 2004 he has operated, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States. He regards his teaching job as his most important work. 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. A Study of the Five Minute Oscillations, Supergranulation, and Related Phenomena in the Solar Atmosphere (1971)Īndrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle ast, is an American-Dutch computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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