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
Van de Riet and Max Euwe presenting Dutch Teletext (1980)
Born(1939-04-22)22 April 1939
Died18 December 2008(2008-12-18) (aged 69)
Baarn, Netherlands
CitizenshipNetherlands
EducationUniversity of Amsterdam (Ph.D., 1968)
Known forEditor, Europe of Data and Knowledge Engineering
COLOR-X event modeling language
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thesis ALGOL 60 as Formula Manipulation Language  (1968)
Doctoral advisorAdriaan van Wijngaarden
Doctoral studentsPeter 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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  1. ^ Obituary in Trouw, 20 December 2008
  2. ^ Burg, Johannes Franciscus Maria. Linguistic instruments in requirements engineering. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1997.
  3. ^ ter Hofstede, Arthur HM, Henderik A. Proper, and Theo P. Van Der Weide. "Exploiting fact verbalisation in conceptual information modelling." Information Systems 22.6 (1997): 349-385.
  4. ^ Reinder van de Riet at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Reinder Pieter van de Riet (1939). at gplsi.dlsi.ua.es. Accessed 10.2011.
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