Biography:Andrew Appel
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.jpg) Andrew Appel in 2006 | |
| Born | 1960 |
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| Relatives | Peter H. Appel (brother) |
Andrew Wilson Appel (born 1960) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of computer science at Princeton University. He is especially well-known because of his compiler books, the Modern Compiler Implementation in ML (ISBN:0-521-58274-1) series, as well as Compiling With Continuations (ISBN:0-521-41695-7). He is also a major contributor to the Standard ML of New Jersey compiler, along with David MacQueen, John H. Reppy, Matthias Blume and others[1] and one of the authors of Rog-O-Matic.
Biography
Andrew Appel is the son of mathematician Kenneth Appel, who proved the Four-Color Theorem in 1976.[2] Appel graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in physics from Princeton University in 1981 after completing a senior thesis, titled "Investigation of galaxy clustering using an asymptotically fast N-body algorithm", under the supervision of Nobel laureate James Peebles.[3] He later received a Ph.D. (computer science) at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1985.[4] He became an ACM Fellow in 1998, due to his research of programming languages and compilers.[5]
In 1981, Appel developed a better approach to the n-body problem in linearithmic instead of quadratic time.[6]
From July 2005 to July 2006, he was a visiting researcher at the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, France , on sabbatical from Princeton University.[citation needed]
Andrew Appel campaigns on issues related to the interaction of law and computer technology. He testified in the penalty phase of the Microsoft antitrust case in 2002.[7] He is opposed to the introduction of some computerized voting machines, which he deemed untrustworthy.[8] In 2007, he received attention when he purchased a number of voting machines for the purpose of investigating their security.[9]
References
- ↑ SML/NJ Team
- ↑ "In Memoriam: Kenneth Appel". https://math.illinois.edu/resources/department-history/faculty-memoriam/kenneth-appel.
- ↑ Investigation of galaxy clustering using an asymptotically fast N-body algorithm. 1981. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/4122345.
- ↑ Appel, Andrew (1985). Compile-time Evaluation and Code Generation for Semantics-directed Compilers (PhD). Carnegie Mellon University.
- ↑ "Andrew W. Appel" (in en). https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/appel_2115301.
- ↑ An Investigation of Galaxy Clustering Using an Asymptotically Fast N-Body Algorithm. Andrew W. Appel, Senior Thesis, Princeton University, 1981.
- ↑ "TECHNOLOGY; Threat Is Seen to Microsoft Windows", The New York Times, May 2, 2007, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4081FF63E550C718CDDAC0894DA404482
- ↑ Andrew, Appel (2006-06-14). "Ceci n'est pas une urne". https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/urne.pdf.
- ↑ Jones, Richard G. (February 13, 2007), "Suit Seeks To Ensure Ballot Safety In New Jersey", The New York Times, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713F9345B0C708DDDAB0894DF404482
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