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Andrew S. Tanenbaum

1944 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew S. Tanenbaum has received more than 786,653 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew S. Tanenbaum is the 12th most popular computer scientist (up from 17th in 2019), the 1,105th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,200th in 2019) and the 6th 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Andrew S. Tanenbaum ranks 12 out of 245. Before him are Dennis Ritchie, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, John McCarthy, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and Linus Torvalds. After him are Edgar F. Codd, Marvin Minsky, Ivan Sutherland, George Dantzig, Ray Kurzweil, and John Backus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Andrew S. Tanenbaum ranks 83. Before him are R. Lee Ermey, W. G. Sebald, Gianni Morandi, Günter Netzer, Thein Sein, and Michelle Phillips. After him are Antonio Damasio, Coluche, Bernard Hill, Ian McDiarmid, Donna Haraway, and Erwin Neher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andrew S. Tanenbaum ranks 1,105 out of 20,380. Before him are Dean Reed (1938), Linda McCartney (1941), Richard Thaler (1945), Laura Bush (1946), Robert Vaughn (1932), and Idina Menzel (1971). After him are George Jung (1942), Mary Ainsworth (1913), Richard Serra (1939), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), and Meir Kahane (1932).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Andrew S. Tanenbaum ranks 6. Before him are Grace Hopper (1906), Richard Stallman (1953), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Donald Knuth (1938), and John McCarthy (1927). After him are Marvin Minsky (1927), Ivan Sutherland (1938), George Dantzig (1914), Ray Kurzweil (1948), John Backus (1924), and Ken Thompson (1943).

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