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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.
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]
