Structured Computer Organization by Andrew Tanenbaum

Structured Computer Organization by Andrew Tanenbaum

Structured Computer Organization, specifically written for undergraduate students, is a best-selling guide that provides an accessible introduction to computer hardware and architecture. This text will also serve as a useful resource for all computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or introduction to computer architecture. This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems. It's highly accessible - and it's been thoroughly updated to reflect today's most critical new technologies and the latest developments in computer organization and architecture. Tanenbaum’s renowned writing style and painstaking research make this one of the most accessible and accurate books available, maintaining the author’s popular method of presenting a computer as a series of layers, each one built upon the ones below it, and understandable as a separate entity.

Tanenbaum holds a bachelor's degree in science. M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) degree as well as a Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, B.A., M.A., M.S., M. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit, where he directs the Computer Systems Group.

He's also the Dean of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate program dedicated to advanced parallel, distributed, and image systems research. Yet, he is making every effort to avoid becoming a bureaucrat. He's worked on compilers, operating systems, networking, and local-area distributed systems in the past. His current research is on the design of large-scale distributed networks with billions of users.

These studies have resulted in five volumes and more than 85 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings. Tanenbaum has also created a significant amount of software. He was the creator of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, a widely used toolkit for creating portable compilers, as well as MINIX, a compact UNIX clone aimed towards student programming labs. In addition to his Ph.D., he has a master's degree.

He worked on the Amoeba distributed operating system, a high-performance microkernel-based distributed operating system, with students and programmers. The MINIX and Amoeba systems are now available online for free. Tanenbaum is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the recipient of the 1994 ACM Karl V. Winner of the Karlstrom Distinguished Educator Award and the ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education in 1997.

He's also on Who's Who in the World's list.