Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

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Johannes Lambertus Adriana van de Snepscheut (Dutch: ['sn?psxø:t]; 12 September 1953 - 23 February 1994) was a computer scientist and educator. He was a student of Martin Rem and Edsger Dijkstra. At the time of his death he was the executive officer of the computer science department at the California Institute of Technology. He was also developing an editor for proving theorems called "Proxac".

In the early morning hours of February 23, 1994, van de Snepscheut attacked his sleeping wife, Terre, with an axe. He then set their house on fire, and died as it burned around him. Terre and their three children escaped their burning home.

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Bibliography

• Jan L. A. Van De Snepscheut, What computing is all about, Springer, 1993.
• Jan L. A. Van De Snepscheut, Trace Theory and VLSI Design, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 200, Springer, 1985. This is Van De Snepscheut's Ph.D. thesis, entirely handwritten, including the index.)

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