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Andrew Appel

Eugene Higgins Professor of computer science/Princeton University/New Jersey
Person human Q4756213

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17 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[17]
Date of birth
1960
Country of citizenship
United States[7]
Occupation
computer scientist, engineer, university teacher, programmer
Employer
Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign[10]
Field of work
programming language, software engineering[8][9]
Educated at
Carnegie Mellon University[11]
Award received
SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award, ACM Fellow[14][15]
Father
Kenneth Appel[6]
Doctoral advisor
Ravi Sethi, Merrick Lee Furst[12][13]
Doctoral student
Zhong Shao, Aquinas Hobor, Daniel Chen-An Wang, Andrew P. Tolmach, Marcelo Goncalves, Matthias Blume, Richard Drew Dean, Kedar N. Swadi, Lujo Bauer, Amal Jamil Ahmed, Eun-Young Lee, Juan Chen, Dinghao Wu, Gang Tan, Xinming Ou, Jeffrey L. Korn, Sudhakar Govindavajhala, Christopher D. Richards, Robert W. Dockins, James Gordon Stewart, Josiah Dodds[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[34]
Family name
Appel[32]
Given name
Andrew[33]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[35]
Member of
Association for Computing Machinery[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Andrew Appel en Andrew Wilson Appel en Andrew W Appel ar أندرو أبل cs Andrew Wilson Appel cs Andrew W. Appel fa اندرو اپل nl Andrew W Appel nl Andrew Wilson Appel zh 安德魯·阿佩爾
🔖 Identifiers · 29
ISNI
0000000121275132
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6009-0325
VIAF cluster ID
34610100
Library of Congress authority ID
n96112576
GND ID
1011297485
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Andrew Apple (FloC 2006).jpg ↗
ACM Digital Library author ID
81100498630
BIBSYS ID
90583112
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13486556c
DBLP author ID
a/AWAppel
DDB person (GND) ID
1011297485
Freebase ID
/m/04tx26
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IdRef ID
035653183
KBR person ID
14440553
MR Author ID
209687
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
42361
NDL Authority ID
01179151
NL CR AUT ID
xx0171613
NUKAT ID
n98030252
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007522873405171
National Library of Latvia ID
000097432
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
093610076
Obálky knih ID
xx0171613
Open Library ID
OL8057457A
SHARE Catalogue author ID
67186
SNAC ARK ID
w6hc3v8b
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJdcC7KWMcRXjQTXqrv8md
Yale LUX ID
person/14810f2d-9ba4-43de-a4be-35073250098f
ZbMATH author ID
appel.andrew-w

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🔗 Connections
Employer 3
Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Occupation 3
engineer, computer scientist, university teacher
Award received 2
ACM Fellow, SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
Doctoral student 2
Dinghao Wu, Zhong Shao
Doctoral students 2
Dinghao Wu, Zhong Shao
Field of work 2
programming language, software engineering
Affiliated with 1
Princeton University
Author of 1
Position paper: the science of deep specification
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Doctoral advisor 1
Ravi Sethi
Doctoral advisors 1
Ravi Sethi
Educated at 1
Carnegie Mellon University
Family name 1
Appel
Father 1
Kenneth Appel
Given name 1
Andrew
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Mathematics
Member of 1
Association for Computing Machinery
Parent of 1
Kenneth Appel
Sex or gender 1
male
← Authored by 1
Position paper: the science of deep specification
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Andrew Appel was born on January 1, 1960.[1][2] He was educated at Carnegie Mellon University.[3] His field is programming language and software engineering.[4][5][6]

He has been employed by Princeton University (1986–present), Carnegie Mellon University (1983–1983), and University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (1976–1980).[7] He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery.[8][9]

His awards include the SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award and ACM Fellow.[10]

Why It Matters

His notable doctoral advisees include Zhong Shao[36], a computer scientist[37] and Dinghao Wu[38], a computer scientist[39].

FAQs

Who were Andrew Appel's parents?

Andrew Appel's father was Kenneth Appel[6].

What did Andrew Appel do for work?

Andrew Appel worked as a computer scientist[2], engineer[3], university teacher[4], and programmer[5].

Where did Andrew Appel go to school?

Andrew Appel was educated at Carnegie Mellon University[11].

What awards did Andrew Appel receive?

Honors received include SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award[14] and ACM Fellow[15].

Related Entities

computer scientist Dinghao Wu programming language Ravi Sethi software engineering United States University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Zhong Shao

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  30. [16] ↑ . awards.acm.org. Retrieved . awards.acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [1] ↑ . SNAC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [34] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  35. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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