Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

American-Dutch computer scientist

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1944

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer, engineer, computer scientist, professor, physicist, academic, programmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle ast, is a Dutch / 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.