Academic

Andrew Appel

American computer scientist

Life: 1960 – present
Born: 1960
Nationality: United States

Andrew Wilson Appel is the Eugene Higgins Professor of computer science at Princeton University. 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 and one of the authors of Rog-O-Matic.