Andrew Appel
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"Andrew Wilson Appel" (born 1960) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of computer science at Princeton University, New Jersey. 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[http://www.smlnj.org/people.html SML/NJ Team] and one of the authors of Rog-O-Matic.

Appel gained an A.B. Latin honors/summa cum laude (physics) at Princeton University in 1981, and a Ph.D. (computer science) at Carnegie-Mellon University, in 1985. He became an Association for Computing Machinery#Fellows/ACM Fellow in 1998.[http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=2115301&srt=all ACM: Fellows Award / Andrew W Appel]

From July 2005 to July 2006, he was a visiting researcher at the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, France, on sabbatical from Princeton.

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.{{Citation

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