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He was born in in physics from UC Berkeley in 1971. He and his wife moved to the Netherlands (her homeland), but he retains his United States citizenship. As Of 2004 he teaches courses about Computer Organization and Operating Systems, and supervises the work of Ph.D. candidates. He is well recognized for his textbooks on computer science, which are famous as standard texts in the field, particularly:
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''Operating Systems: Design and Implementation'' and Minix were , but Linus and Andrew appear to be on good speaking terms; Linus wants it understood that he holds no animosity towards Tanenbaum. Tanenbaum went on to write the Amoeba Distributed Operating System , making full use of the microkernel idea. Tanenbaum's adherence to the elegance of the microkernel architecture is now appearing prophetic, as more and more of the critical computing components of our society are moving to microkernel-based designs. Examples include the world's most powerful core router, the Cisco Systems CRS-1 , which is based on the QNX microkernel, as well as the vast majority of in-vehicle computing (also based on the QNX microkernel). In 2004 Tanenbaum created Electoral-vote.com , a popular web site analyzing Opinion Polls for the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election , using them to project the outcome in the Electoral College . The site also provided an electoral map. Surprising results on this map (such as, for example, a short period when Hawaii, traditionally Democratic, was listed as "Barely Bush") would often surface in popular discussion. Through most of the campaign period he kept his identity secret, referring to himself as "the Votemaster" and acknowledging only that he personally preferred Kerry . Tanenbaum, a Democrat , revealed his identity on November 1 , 2004 , the day prior to the election, also stating his reasons and qualifications for running the website {Link without Title} . BIBLIOGRAPHY
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