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Frans Kaashoek

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Marinus Frans Kaashoek (born 1965 in Leiden, Netherlands) is a Dutch computer scientist and entrepreneur, the Charles Piper Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affiliated with MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research interests span operating systems, networking, programming languages and computer architecture for distributed, mobile and parallel systems. He received an NSF National Young Investigator Award in 1994, was named an ACM Fellow in 2004, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and received the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in 2010, the ACM Prize in Computing in 2010, and the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.

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1963 1
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Mark Weiser Award 1
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ACM Fellow 1
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ACM Prize in Computing 1
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1. Wikidata: Frans Kaashoek
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  • Wikidata Q16195136 P569 (date of birth)
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