Andrew Appel

Andrew Appel
Andrew Appel in 2006
Born1960 (age 65–66)
FatherKenneth Appel
RelativesPeter H. Appel (brother)
Scientific career
Doctoral studentsGang Tan, Dinghao Wu

Andrew Wilson Appel (born 1960) 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.