he correctly projected 35 out of 37 Senate races in the Midterm elections on the website. The exceptions were Colorado and Nevada. Electoral-vote.com incorrectly predicted Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 United States presidential election. The website incorrectly predicted Clinton would win Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida. Electoral-vote.com did not predict a winner for Nevada, which Clinton would win. The website predicted the winners of the remaining 44 states and the District of Columbia correctly. Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate The Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate was a famous debate between Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds regarding kernel design on Usenet in 1992. Awards Fellow of the ACM Fellow of the IEEE Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences IEEE Computer Society Tech. Committee on Distributed Processing Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 2022 Eurosys Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015 Honorary doctorate from Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, 2011 Winner of the TAA McGuffey award for classic textbooks for Modern Operating Systems, 2010 Coauthor of the Best Paper Award at the LADC Conference, 2009 Winner of a 2.5 million euro European Research Council Advanced Grant, 2008 USENIX Flame Award 2008 for his many contributions to systems design and to openness both in discussion and in source Honorary doctorate from Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania Coauthor of the Best Paper Award at the Real-Time and Network Systems Conf., 2008 Winner of the 2007 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal Coauthor of the Best Paper Award at the USENIX LISA Conf., 2006 Coauthor of the Best Paper for High Impact at the IEEE Percom Conf., 2006 Academy Professor, 2004 Winner of the 2005 PPAP Award for best education on computer science software Winner of the 2003 TAA McGuffey award for classic textbooks for Computer Networks Winner of the 2002 TAA Texty Award for new textbooks Winner of the 1997 ACM SIGCSE for contributions to computer science education Winner of the 1994 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award Coauthor of the 1984 ACM SOSP Distinguished Paper Award Honorary doctorates On May 12, 2008, Tanenbaum received an honorary doctorate from Universitatea Politehnica din București. The award was given in the academic senate chamber, after which Tanenbaum gave a lecture on his vision of the future of the computer field. The degree was given in recognition of Tanenbaum's career work, which includes about 150 published papers, 18 books (which have been translated into over 20 languages), and