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Andrew S. Tanenbaum, an Uncommon card
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum, sometimes referred to by the handle AST, is an American-born Dutch computer scientist and retired professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 76,000
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Andrew S. Tanenbaum card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He regards his ______ job as his most important work.
Answer
teaching. He regards his teaching job as his most important work. From the Andrew S. Tanenbaum article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Since ____ he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States.
Answer
2000s. Since 2004 he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States. From the Andrew S. Tanenbaum article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and has written multiple computer science textbooks regarded as standard texts in the field.
- He regards his teaching job as his most important work.
- Since 2004 he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Andrew S. Tanenbaum article was read about 76,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Andrew S. Tanenbaum (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jantangring, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
