Andrew W. Appel

Andrew Appel

Andrew Wilson Appel (b.1960) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University, New Jersey. 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 and his brother, Shane Appel, are also major contributors to the Standard ML of New Jersey compiler, along with , , and others and one of the authors of Rog-O-Matic.

Appel gained an A.B. summa cum laude (physics) at Princeton University in 1981, and a Ph.D. (computer science) at Carnegie-Mellon University, in 1985. He became an ACM Fellow in 1998.

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.

Andrew Appel campaigns on issues related to the interaction of law and computer technology. He testified before the U.S. Congress during the Microsoft antitrust case in 1998. He is opposed to the introduction of some computerized voting machines, which he deemed untrustworthy. In 2007, he received attention when he purchased a number of voting machines for the purpose of investigating their security.

Andrew Appel is the son of noteworthy Mathematician Kenneth Appel.

References

1. SML/NJ Team
2. ACM: Fellows Award / Andrew W Appel
3. "TECHNOLOGY; Threat Is Seen to Microsoft Windows", The New York Times, May 2, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4081FF63E550C718CDDAC0894DA404482
4. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/urne.pdf
5. Jones, Richard G. (February 13), "Suit Seeks To Ensure Ballot Safety In New Jersey", The New York Times, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713F9345B0C708DDDAB0894DF404482

External links

• Website at Princeton

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