He was born in New York City and raised in White Plains, NY. He received his bachelor's degree from MIT. He received his doctorate from UC Berkeley in 1971. Currently he teaches courses about Computer Organization and Operating Systems.
Posted on 11/02/2004 8:55:34 AM PST by beejplaysbass
History may never know how many working hours were lost to Andrew Tanenbaum's Web site, www.electoral-vote.com.
The site features a map of the United States in shades of blue, red, pink and white and a tally of which way the electoral college vote will go if the most recent polls are correct. (White is for tied, light blue is for states that are weakly leaning toward Kerry, pink is for states that are weakly leaning toward Bush.)
Updated as the poll numbers from each state arrive, it has become one of the world's 1,000 most popular Web sites and gets 600,000 visitors a day, according to Tanenbaum. At 11 a.m. EST, the site had Kerry ahead of Bush, 298 electoral votes to 231.
Until Monday, Tanenbaum maintained his anonymity.
Tanenbaum, an American living in Amsterdam, where he is a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit, posted his biography on the site Monday. He said he lives in The Netherlands because his wife, who is Dutch, "couldn't do her kind of work in the U.S. whereas I could work anywhere."
He started the Web site as a means to register other overseas voters. Until last week, the site featured a banner ad giving voter registration information to overseas voters.
A Democrat, and a former lobbyist for the Sierra Club (news - web sites), Tanenbaum ran for a spot as an overseas delegate to the Democratic National Convention, but lost.
His wife is a Cuban cigar dealer?
Perhaps she's into freelance cloning.
she could go to work in nevada
Are you sure it was this site? I have looked at it throughout the election and it seems objective to me (I think that he keys each state to the most recent poll). With the exception of New Mexico and Pennsylvania, which he calls slightly Kerry, and Florida, which he calls slightly more Kerry, his map confirms what has been written elsewhere. He calls NJ as neutral and Hawaii as mildly Bush.
I went, I saw, I was unimpressed. This site looks like my kid put it together. I think I'm in the wrong business.
Now, now - suppress the cynicism. Get out there, vote the straight Republican ticket and after a few decades of control - they may allow us to once again freely choose our toilets!
But you can still forget about freedom to grow plants.
Excellent call.
Good, the guy is an experienced 'looser'. He won't be too upset at wasting his time building that web site.
Its legal in Nevada.
"realclearpolitics.com is much better. Their map is based on poll averages."
If that were true, they would have had Hawaii for Bush, but they have had it for Kerry until today, even though their poll averages (the latest) are for Bush.
He cherrypicks polls...
I liked the site early on, but began to suspect it when it started having wild swings. sKerry was way up this morning, but the site now has them tied with a one point difference.
At least the guy (finally) came clean about his party affiliation, which is more than you can say about sKerry's membership in the communist party.
p.s. Amsterdam's an interesting and historic city, but it's also a magnet for the sewage of humanity.
He was born in New York City and raised in White Plains, NY. He received his bachelor's degree from MIT. He received his doctorate from UC Berkeley in 1971. Currently he teaches courses about Computer Organization and Operating Systems.
Thanks again.
He looks like Vern Schillinger's brother (from "OZ")
Just checked the link. Right now it's Kerry 262, Bush 261. However, I agree with frog jerk -- I don't believe he is capable of being impartial and that he is cherrypicking his polls. Like the Gallup from yesterday that seriously skewed its internals to get Bush and Kerry to a tie.
>>He said he lives in The Netherlands because his wife, who is Dutch, "couldn't do her kind of work in the U.S. <<
Hooker?
I have been watching this site for months.
He does, indeed, cherry pick polls, and admits it.
If you dig deeper into the site, it has been, at times, viciously left wing.
In the past week, his color pallette has run out of anything in the red spectrum. I think he has wrongly interpreted hit counts as fan counts.
At 11 30 am central standard time I filled in a straight libertarian ticket :-).I dont plan on spending the rest of my life begging to be treated as an adult by my goverment and voteing straight libertarian is one step towards once again making this a nation of free men and women.Right now I am deciding whether or not to run as a libertarian in district two in indiana in 2006
isnt he the father on ALF ? :-)
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