Department of Computer Science

Vrije Universiteit

Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Home Page

Professor of Computer Science

One-word descriptions: http://youtu.be/Dfa0srNLD0M 30-sec descriptions: http://youtu.be/tkJ4YNOrNpI

MINIX 3, a highly-reliable operating system based on a tiny (13,000-line) kernel, is now available. It runs on x86 and ARM CPUs so it is good for desktop as well as embedded systems. To download it for free, go to www.minix3.org.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

• Personal FAQ
• Curriculum vitae

BOOKS

• Photos of the covers of my books
• Translations of my books
• Structured Computer Organization, 6th ed.
• Computer Networks, 6th ed.
• Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 3rd ed.
• Modern Operating Systems, 5th ed.
• Distributed Systems, 3rd ed.
• How to Prepare Your Input

PAPERS

• Refereed papers
• Other publications

SOFTWARE

• Amsterdam Compiler Kit (download)
• Amoeba
• Globe
• MINIX 3
• Orca parallel programming language (download)

TEACHING

• Video lectures on Computer Networks by David Wetherall

HONORS

• Somebody went to the trouble of making me a page on Wikipedia
• Fellow of the IEEE
• Fellow of the ACM
• Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• ACM Software System Award
• Eurosys Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015
• Honorary Doctorate from Petru Maior University, 2011
• Winner of the TAA McGuffey Award, 2010
• European Research Council Advanced Grant winner, 2008 (for about $3.5 million)
• Winner of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008
• Winner of the NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008
• Honorary Doctorate from Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 2008
• Winner of the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, 2007
• KNAW Academy Professor
• Winner of the 2003 TAA Texty Textbook Excellence Award
• Winner of the 1997 ACM CSE Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education Award
• ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
• Distinguished Paper Award, 10th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles

PH.D. THESES SUPERVISED:

• Dirk Vogt: Efficient High-Frequency Checkpointing for Recovery and Debugging, 2019
  (cosupervised with Herbert Bos)
  
  
• Erik van der Kouwe: Improving Software Fault Injection, 2016
  
  
• David van Moolenbroek: Building a Reliable Storage Stack, 2016
  
  
• Tomas Hruby: On the Design of Reliable and Scalable Networked Systems, 2016
  (cosupervised with Herbert Bos)
  
  
• Guido van 't Noordende: The Design and Implementaion of the Mansion Mobile Agent System, 2015
  (cosupervised with Frances Brazier)
  
  
• Raja Appuswamy: Building a File-Based Storage Stack: Modularity and Flexibility in Loris, 2014
  
  
• Cristiano Giuffrida: Safe and Automatic Live Update, 2014
  
  
• Stefano Ortolani: Keylogger Detection and Containment, 2013
  (cosupervised with Bruno Crispo)
  
  
• Jorrit Herder: Building a Dependable Operating System, 2010
  (cosupervised with Herbert Bos)
  
  
• Srijith Nair: Remote Policy Enforcement Using Java Virtual Machine, 2010
  (cosupervised with Bruno Crispo)
  
  
• Melanie Rieback: Security and Privacy of Radio Frequency Identification, 2008
  (cosupervised with Bruno Crispo)
  
  
• Bogdan Popescu: Design and Implementation of a Secure Wide-Area Object Middleware, 2007
  (cosupervised with Bruno Crispo)
  
  
• Michel Oey: The Design of a High-Integrity Disk Management Subsystem, 2005.
  (cosupervised with Wiebren de Jonge)
  
  
• Werner Vogels: Scalable Cluster Technologies for Mission-Critical Enterprise Computing, 2003
  (cosupervised by Henri Bal)
  
  
• Gerco Ballintijn: Locating Objects in a Wide Area System , 2003
  (cosupervised with Maarten van Steen)
  
  
• Arno Bakker: An Object-Based Software Distribution Network , 2002
  (cosupervised with Maarten van Steen)
  
  
• Philip Homburg: The Architecture of a Worldwide Distributed Systems, 2001
  (cosupervised with Maarten van Steen)
  
  
• Leendert van Doorn: The Design and Application of an Extensible Operating System , 2001
  
  
• Raoul Bhoedjang: Communication Architectures for Parallel-Programming Systems , 2000
  (cosupervised with Henri Bal)
  
  
• Frans Kaashoek: Group Communication in Distributed Computer Systems, 1992
  
  
• Baalbergen, E.H.: The Declarative Operating System Model, 1992
  (cosupervised with Dick Grune)
  
  
• Henri Bal: The Shared Data Object Model as a Paradigm for Progr. Distr. Sys., 1989.
  
  
• Robbert van Renesse: Functional Processing as a Paradigm for Distr. Computing, 1989.
  
  
• Sape Mullender: Principles of Distributed Operating System Design, 1985.

   

COLLEAGUES

• Henri E. Bal
  
• Herbert Bos

KEN BROWN INCIDENT

• Ken Brown visited me and informed me that Linus Torvalds stole Linux from me. I begged to disagree with him.

PHOTOS

• Some countries I have visited

STEGANOGRAPHY DEMO

• Steganography means tightly sealed writing

MESSAGE TO DUTCH HIGH SCHOOL (VWO) STUDENTS