the creation of a large body of open-source software, including the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, Amoeba, Globe, and MINIX. On October 7, 2011, Universitatea Petru Maior din Târgu Mureș (Petru Maior University of Târgu Mureș) granted Tanenbaum the Doctor Honoris Causa (honorary doctorate) title for his remarkable work in the field of computer science and achievements in education. The academic community is hereby honoring his devotion to teaching and research with this award. At the ceremony, the Chancellor, the Rector, the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Letters, and others all spoke about Tanenbaum and his work. The pro-rector then read the 'laudatio,' summarizing Tanenbaum's achievements. These include his work developing MINIX (the predecessor to Linux), the RFID Guardian, his work on Globe, Amoeba, and other systems, and his many books on computer science, which have been translated in many languages, including Romanian, and which are used at Petru Maior University. Keynote talks Tanenbaum has been keynote speaker at numerous conferences, most recently ICDCS 2022 Bologna, Italy, July 12, 2022 Qualcomm Security Summit San Diego, May 18, 2022 RIOT Summit 2020 Online Event, September 14, 2020 FrOSCon 2015 Sankt Augustin, Germany, August 22, 2015 BSDCan 2015 Ottawa, Canada, June 12, 2015 HAXPO 2015 Amsterdam May 28, 2015 Codemotion 2015 Rome Italy, March 28, 2015 SIREN 2010 Veldhoven, The Netherlands, November 2, 2010 FOSDEM Brussels, Belgium, February 7, 2010 NSCNE '09 Changsha, China, November 5, 2009 E-Democracy 2009 Conference Athens, Greece, September 25, 2009 Free and Open Source Conference Sankt Augustin, Germany, August 23, 2008 XV Semana Informática of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, March 13, 2008 NLUUG 25 year anniversary conference, Amsterdam, November 7, 2007 linux.conf.au in Sydney, Australia, January 17, 2007 Academic IT Festival in Cracow, Poland, February 23, 2006 (2nd edition) ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, Brighton, England, October 24, 2005 References External links Minix Article in Free Software Magazine contains an interview with Andrew Tanenbaum The MINIX 3 Operating System MINIX Official Website 1944 births American political writers American male non-fiction writers American technology writers Computer systems researchers American computer scientists Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE Free software programmers Kernel programmers Living people MIT Department of Physics alumni Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences MINIX Scientists from New York City University of California, Berkeley alumni Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Information technology in