Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
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| Nationality | Dutch |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Eindhoven University, Groningen University, Caltech |
| Alma mater | Eindhoven University |
Johannes "Jan" L. A. van de Snepscheut (12 Sep 1953 in Oosterhout, The Netherlands - 23 Feb 1994) was a computer scientist and educator. At his untimely death he was the executive officer of the computer science department at the California Institute of Technology.
He died after he, apparently armed with an ax, bludgeoned his wife and was later found dead in the remains of a bedroom of his one-story house. His students remembered him as always (...) calm and good-humored in class. [1]
Subsequent to his death, his mother revealed that as a teenager he had a schizophrenic breakdown.
At the time he died he was writing an editor for theorem proving called "Proxac". Many students remarked on how even tempered he was, rarely showing extremes of emotion. It seems reasonable to speculate that he may have been taking Prozac which has been anecdotally linked to many suicides.
Two years after his death this fictional story appeared [2] in Wired magazine. The story was based loosely on the events surrounding his death.
[edit] Bibliography
- Jan L. A. Van De Snepscheut, What computing is all about (1993), Springer
- Jan L. A. Van De Snepscheut, Trace Theory and VLSI Design (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (Paperback)
- This is Jan's Ph.D. thesis, entirely handwritten, including the index.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra, In Memoriam Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut (EWD1177)
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