Tanenbaum holds a bachelor's degree in science. M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) degree as well as a Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, B.A., M.A., M.S., M. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit, where he directs the Computer Systems Group.

He's also the Dean of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate program dedicated to advanced parallel, distributed, and image systems research. Yet, he is making every effort to avoid becoming a bureaucrat. He's worked on compilers, operating systems, networking, and local-area distributed systems in the past. His current research is on the design of large-scale distributed networks with billions of users.

These studies have resulted in five volumes and more than 85 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings. Tanenbaum has also created a significant amount of software. He was the creator of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, Read More chevron_right

Tanenbaum holds a bachelor's degree in science. M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) degree as well as a Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, B.A., M.A., M.S., M. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit, where he directs the Computer Systems Group.

He's also the Dean of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate program dedicated to advanced parallel, distributed, and image systems research. Yet, he is making every effort to avoid becoming a bureaucrat. He's worked on compilers, operating systems, networking, and local-area distributed systems in the past. His current research is on the design of large-scale distributed networks with billions of users.

These studies have resulted in five volumes and more than 85 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings. Tanenbaum has also created a significant amount of software. He was the creator of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, a widely used toolkit for creating portable compilers, as well as MINIX, a compact UNIX clone aimed towards student programming labs. In addition to his Ph.D., he has a master's degree.

He worked on the Amoeba distributed operating system, a high-performance microkernel-based distributed operating system, with students and programmers. The MINIX and Amoeba systems are now available online for free. Tanenbaum is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the recipient of the 1994 ACM Karl V. Winner of the Karlstrom Distinguished Educator Award and the ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education in 1997.

He's also on Who's Who in the World's list.