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Dutch computer scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reinder Pieter (Reind) van de Riet (22 April 1939, Groningen – 18 December 2008, Baarn)[1] was a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus Professor Information Systems at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for the development of COLOR-X, a linguistically-based event modeling language for object modeling.[2][3]
Reinder Pieter van de Riet | |
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Born | |
Died | 18 December 2008 69) Baarn, Netherlands | (aged
Citizenship | Netherlands |
Education | University of Amsterdam (Ph.D., 1968) |
Known for | Editor, Europe of Data and Knowledge Engineering COLOR-X event modeling language |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
Thesis | ALGOL 60 as Formula Manipulation Language (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | Adriaan van Wijngaarden |
Doctoral students | Peter Apers, Martin L. Kersten, Frank Dignum, Roel Wieringa, Frances Brazier |
Van de Riet received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in computer science at the University of Amsterdam in 1968 under supervision of Adriaan van Wijngaarden for the thesis, entitled "ALGOL 60 as Formula Manipulation Language." In 1970, he was appointed Professor Information Systems at the VU University Amsterdam, where he retired August 2000. Among his Ph.D. students were Peter Apers (1982), Martin L. Kersten (1985), Frank Dignum (1989), Roel Wieringa (1990) and Frances Brazier (1991).[4]
Van de Riet was editor of Europe of Data and Knowledge Engineering journal and member of the Editorial Board of the Information Systems Journal. His research interests were in the field of "database and Knowledge bases; the use of Linguistics; Security and Privacy problems; and computational auditing."[5] He was knighted into the Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. He died in Baarn, Netherlands, 18 December 2008, shortly after a lecture trip through the United States.
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