Andrew Appel
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| Born | 1960 |
| Father | Kenneth Appel |
| Relatives | Peter H. Appel(brother) |
Andrew Wilson Appel(born 1960) is the Eugene Higgins Professor ofcomputer scienceatPrinceton University.He is especially well-known because of hiscompilerbooks, theModern Compiler Implementation in ML(ISBN0-521-58274-1) series, as well asCompiling With Continuations(ISBN0-521-41695-7). He is also a major contributor to theStandard ML of New Jerseycompiler, along withDavid MacQueen,John H. Reppy,Matthias Blumeand others[1]and one of the authors ofRog-O-Matic.
Biography
[edit]Andrew Appel is the son of mathematicianKenneth Appel,who proved theFour-Color Theoremin 1976.[2]Appel graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. inphysicsfromPrinceton Universityin 1981 after completing a senior thesis, titled "Investigation of galaxy clustering using an asymptotically fast N-body algorithm", under the supervision of Nobel laureateJames Peebles.[3]He later received a Ph.D. (computer science) atCarnegie Mellon University,in 1985.[4]He became anACM Fellowin 1998, due to his research of programming languages andcompilers.[5]
In 1981, Appel developed a better approach to then-body probleminlinearithmicinstead of quadratic time.[6]
From July 2005 to July 2006, he was a visiting researcher at theInstitut 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 theMicrosoft antitrustcase in 2002.[7]He is opposed to the introduction of some computerizedvoting 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]In 2024, he testified as an expert on voting machines in federal court hearings that led to a preliminary injunction disallowing New Jersey’s “county line” system that was alleged to provide an unfair advantage to candidates backed by county political party organizations.[10]
References
[edit]- ^SML/NJ Team
- ^"In Memoriam: Kenneth Appel".math.illinois.edu.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-07-23.Retrieved2020-09-07.
- ^Investigation of galaxy clustering using an asymptotically fast N-body algorithm.1981.
- ^Appel, Andrew (1985).Compile-time Evaluation and Code Generation for Semantics-directed Compilers(PhD). Carnegie Mellon University.
- ^"Andrew W. Appel".awards.acm.org.Retrieved2019-07-24.
- ^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
- ^Andrew, Appel (2006-06-14)."Ceci n'est pas une urne"(PDF).Retrieved2020-04-22.
- ^Jones, Richard G. (February 13, 2007),"Suit Seeks To Ensure Ballot Safety In New Jersey",The New York Times
- ^Fox, Joey (March 18, 2024),"Andy Kim Takes the Stand Against County Lines at Federal Hearing",New Jersey Globe
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