Adolf Alexander (Alex or Xander) Verrijn Stuart (

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

, 22 October 1923 –

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, 29 October 2004) was a Dutch

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, and the first

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in computer science at the

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...

from 1969 tot 1991.G. Leistra (2008). "Xander Verrijn Stuart (1923-2004)" in: ''Gewone levens.'' p.209-210.

Biography

Alex Verrijn Stuart was born in Rotterdam, where his father was professor in economics at the

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam ( ; abbreviated as EUR) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century Christian humanist and theologian. Erasmus M ...

. His grandfather was the economist Coenraad Alexander Verrijn Stuart, who in 1899 was the first president of the

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. Verrijn Stuart received an MA in

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at the

Delft University of Technology The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...

, and he received a Ph.D. from the

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. Afterwards he worked at the

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

department of

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for 18 years. In 1969 he was appointed the first

in computer science in the Netherlands, at the

. From 1973 to 1974 he had been a fellow at the

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.Verrijn Stuart, A.A.

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Fellow (1 September 1974 - 31 July 1975). Accessed August 14, 2013 In 1976 he was one of the founding members of the IFIP TC8 Technical Committee of Information Systems. Among his graduate student were Dewald Roode and

Sjaak Brinkkemper Jacobus Nicolaas (Sjaak) Brinkkemper (born Monnickendam, 18 January 1958) is a Dutch computer scientist, and Full Professor of organisation and information at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University. Biography ...

. Alex Verrijn Stuart was also an ice skater and

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. In 1940 he skated his first

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of the five to come. In 1977 he was the leader of an expedition to climb the Annapurna I. In 1982 he was part of an expedition to the

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that failed.

Publications

Books, a selection: * 1982. ''Information Systems Design Methodologies: A Comparative Review Proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Cooperative Review of Information Systems Design Methodologies, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 10–14 May 1982''. Ed. with T. William Olle and Henk G. Sol. North-Holland. * 1986. ''Trends in Information Systems: An Anthology of Papers from Conferences of the IFIP Technical Committee 8 "Information Systems" to Commemorate their Tenth Anniversary''. With

Börje Langefors Börje Langefors (; 21 May 1915 – 13 December 2009) was a Swedish engineer and computer scientist, Emeritus Professor of Business Information Systems at the Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University and Royal Institute ...

and Giampio Bracchi. International Federation for Information Processing. Technical Committee for Information Systems. * 1994. ''Methods and Associated Tools for the Information Systems Life Cycle, Proceedings of the IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on Methods and Associated Tools for the Information Systems Life Cycle, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 26–28 September 1994''. Ed. with T. William Olle. Elsevier IFIP Transactions. * 1998.
A Framework of Information System Concepts. The FRISCO Report
'. With Eckhard D. Falkenberg, Wolfgang Hesse, Paul Lindgreen, Björn E. Nilsson, J.L. Han Oei,

Colette Rolland Colette Rolland (born 1943, in Dieupentale, Tarn-et-Garonne, France) is a French computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science in the department of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She is a lead ...

, Ronald Stamper, Frans J.M. Van Assche, and Klaus Voss. * 2000. ''Information System Concepts: An Integrated Discipline Emerging. Proc. IFIP TC8/WG 8.1 Working Conference ISCO 1999.'' Ed. with Eckhard D. Falkenberg and Kalle Lyytinen. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 * 2002. ''The Future of Science and the Humanities''. Ed. with Tindemans, P. and Visser, R. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

References

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