
Tanenbaum has also produced a considerable volume of software. These research projects have led to five books and over 85 referred papers in journals and conference proceedings. His current research focuses primarily on the design of wide-area distributed systems that scale to a billion users.

In the past, he has done research on compilers, operating systems, networking, and local-area distributed systems. Nevertheless, he is trying very hard to avoid turning into a bureaucrat. He is also Dean of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate school doing research on advanced parallel, distributed, and imaging systems. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he heads the Computer Systems Group. from the University of California at Berkeley.
