About the Authors
Andrew S. Tanenbaum has an S.B. degree from M.LT. and a Ph.D. from the University
of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije
Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he heads the Computer Systems
Group. Until stepping down in Jan. 2005, for 12 years he had been Dean of the Advanced
School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate school doing research on
advanced parallel, distributed, and imaging systems.
In the past. he has done research on compilers, operating systems, networking, and
local-area distributed systems. His current research focuses primarily on computer secu-
rity, especially in operating systems, networks, and large wide-area distributed systems.
Together, all these research projects have led to over 125 refereed papers in journals and
conference proceedings and five books, which have been translated into 21 languages.
Prof. Tanenbaum has also produced a considerable volume of software. He was the
principal architect of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, a toolkit for writing portable com-
pilers, as well as of MINIX, a small UNIX clone aimed at very high reliability. It is avail-
able for free at www.minix3.org.This system provided the inspiration and base on which
Linux was developed. He was also one of the chief designers of Amoeba and Globe.
His Ph.D. students have gone on to greater glory after getting their degrees. He is
very proud of them. In this respect he resembles a mother hen.
Prof. Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the the IEEE, and a member of
the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also winner of the 1994
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, winner of the 1997
ACM/SIGCSE
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education, and winner of the
2002 Texty award for excellence in textbooks. In 2004 he was named as one of the five
new Academy Professors by the Royal Academy. His home page is at www.cs.vu.nl/r-ast.
Maarten van Steen is a professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, where he teaches
operating systems, computer networks, and distributed systems. He has also given various
highly successful courses on computer systems related subjects to ICT professionals from
industry and governmental organizations.
Prof. van Steen studied Applied Mathematics at Twente University and received a
Ph.D. from Leiden University in Computer Science. After his graduate studies he went to
work for an industrial research laboratory where he eventually became head of the Com-
puter Systems Group, concentrating on programming support for parallel applications.
After five years of struggling simultaneously do research and management, he decided
to return to academia, first as an assistant professor in Computer Science at the Erasmus
University Rotterdam, and later as an assistant professor in Andrew Tanenbaum's group at
the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Going back to university was the right decision; his
wife thinks so, too.
His current research concentrates on large-scale distributed systems. Part of his
research focuses on Web-based systems, in particular adaptive distribution and replication
in Globule, a content delivery network of which his colleague Guillaume Pierre is the chief
designer. Another subject of extensive research is fully decentralized (gossip-based) peer-
to-peer systems of which results have been included in Tribler, a BitTorrent application
developed in collaboration with colleagues from the Technical University of Delft.
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songhust12014-07-11还算比较经典的 书 ， 论述不错
北洋未名2017-03-26感谢分享。格式可能是双层PDF的，乍看起来像是扫描的，不过还是可以复制其中的文字。
