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{{short description|American computer scientist}} {{Infobox person | name = Andrew Appel | image = Andrew Apple (FloC 2006).jpg | alt = | caption = Andrew Appel in 2006 | birth_name = | birth_date = 1960 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | father = [[Kenneth Appel]] | 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<ref>[http://www.smlnj.org/people.html SML/NJ Team<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and one of the authors of ''[[Rog-O-Matic]]''. == Biography == Andrew Appel is the son of mathematician [[Kenneth Appel]], who proved the [[Four-Color Theorem]] in 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=In Memoriam: Kenneth Appel|url=https://math.illinois.edu/resources/department-history/faculty-memoriam/kenneth-appel|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723170117/https://math.illinois.edu/resources/department-history/faculty-memoriam/kenneth-appel |archive-date=2020-07-23 |access-date=2020-09-07|website=math.illinois.edu}}</ref> 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 [[Jim Peebles|James Peebles]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/4122345|title=Investigation of galaxy clustering using an asymptotically fast N-body algorithm|year=1981}}</ref> He later received a Ph.D. (computer science) at [[Carnegie Mellon University]], in 1985.<ref>{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Appel |first=Andrew |date=1985 |title=Compile-time Evaluation and Code Generation for Semantics-directed Compilers |publisher=Carnegie Mellon University |url=http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/1985/abstracts/85-147.html}}</ref> He became an [[Association for Computing Machinery#Fellows|ACM Fellow]] in 1998, due to his research of programming languages and [[compiler]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/appel_2115301|title=Andrew W. Appel|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref> In 1981, Appel developed a better approach to the [[n-body problem|{{mvar|n}}-body problem]] in [[Time complexity#Linearithmic time|linearithmic]] instead of quadratic time.<ref>[http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/nbody.pdf An Investigation of Galaxy Clustering Using an Asymptotically Fast N-Body Algorithm]. Andrew W. Appel, Senior Thesis, Princeton University, 1981.</ref> From July 2005 to July 2006, he was a visiting researcher at the ''[[Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique]]'' (INRIA), [[Rocquencourt, Yvelines|Rocquencourt]], [[France]], on sabbatical from Princeton University.{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}} Andrew Appel campaigns on issues related to the interaction of law and computer technology. He testified in the penalty phase of the [[United States v. Microsoft|Microsoft antitrust]] case in 2002.<ref>{{Citation | last = | first = | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | title = TECHNOLOGY; Threat Is Seen to Microsoft Windows | newspaper = The New York Times | pages = | date = May 2, 2007 | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4081FF63E550C718CDDAC0894DA404482}}</ref> He is opposed to the introduction of some computerized [[voting machine]]s, which he deemed untrustworthy.<ref name="Urne">{{Cite web |url=https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/urne.pdf |title=Ceci n'est pas une urne |last=Andrew |first=Appel |date=2006-06-14 |access-date=2020-04-22}}</ref> In 2007, he received attention when he purchased a number of voting machines for the purpose of investigating their security.<ref>{{Citation | last = Jones | first = Richard G. | author-link = | title = Suit Seeks To Ensure Ballot Safety In New Jersey | newspaper = The New York Times | pages = | date = February 13, 2007 | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713F9345B0C708DDDAB0894DF404482}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Citation | last = Fox | first = Joey | author-link = | title = Andy Kim Takes the Stand Against County Lines at Federal Hearing | newspaper = New Jersey Globe | pages = | date = March 18, 2024 | url = https://newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/andy-kim-takes-the-stand-against-county-lines-at-federal-hearing}}</ref> ==References== <references/> ==External links== {{Commons category|Andrew Appel}} *[http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/ Website at Princeton] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Appel, Andrew W.}} [[Category:1960 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American computer scientists]] [[Category:Carnegie Mellon University alumni]] [[Category:Princeton University faculty]] [[Category:Programming language researchers]] {{US-compu-bio-stub}}
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