Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum

• Autores: Rik Farrow
• Localización: ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE, ISSN 1044-6397, Vol. 40, Nº. 2, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Sysadmin and distributed computing ), págs. 18-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Although I had certainly encountered Andrew Tanenbaum at other conferences, the first time I remember talking to him was in a “terminal” room at USENIX Annual Tech in 2004. By that time, a terminal room was a place where you could have a hardwired connection to the Internet, and Andy showed me www.electoral-vote.com, a political Web site which he was working on that analyzes polling data. For someone who focuses on working with PhD students, and writing books and operating systems, building such a useful political site seemed a bit far afield to me. But the more you know about Andy, the more you learn just how broad his interests are...