Andrew Appel

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Andrew W. Appel 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.

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.

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. In particular, he is opposed to the introduction of some computerized voting machines, which he deemed untrustworthy [1].

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