Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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Andrew S. Tanenbaum is a renowned computer scientist and educator best known for creating the MINIX operating system and authoring influential textbooks on computer architecture and operating systems.

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Andrew S. Tanenbaum canonical 13
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf author
computer scientist
educator
human
almaMater University of California, Berkeley
authorOf Computer Networks
Distributed Systems
Modern Operating Systems
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
Structured Computer Organization
Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate articles
awardReceived ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education
USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
birthDate 1944-03-16
birthPlace New York
New York City
United States of America
surface form: United States
citizenship Netherlands
degree PhD in computer science
developed MINIX operating system
surface form: MINIX

microkernel-based operating system designs
employer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
familyName Tanenbaum
field computer science
givenName Andrew
hasWebsite https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/
influenced Linux kernel design
knownFor MINIX operating system
computer architecture textbooks
computer networks textbooks
influencing the design of Linux
operating systems textbooks
language English
memberOf Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
name Andrew S. Tanenbaum self-link
nationality American
notableStudent Linus Torvalds
position emeritus professor
professor of computer science
researchArea computer architecture
computer networks
distributed systems
operating systems
residence Netherlands
theoryAdvocated microkernel architecture
workInstitution Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

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- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Description of subject: Andrew S. Tanenbaum is a renowned computer scientist and educator best known for creating the MINIX operating system and authoring influential textbooks on computer architecture and operating systems.

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NLUUG Award notableRecipient Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Modern Operating Systems author Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Computer Networks hasAuthor Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Gerrit Blaauw notableStudent Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum name Andrew S. Tanenbaum self-link
David J. Wetherall coAuthorWith Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Minix filesystem creator Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Tanenbaum birthName Andrew S. Tanenbaum
subject surface form: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
this entity surface form: Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum
MINIX operating system developer Andrew S. Tanenbaum
subject surface form: MINIX
Structured Computer Organization author Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate articles hasAuthor Andrew S. Tanenbaum