Background
Alex Verrijn Stuart was born in Rotterdam, where his father was professor in economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Alex Verrijn Stuart was born in Rotterdam, where his father was professor in economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Verrijn Stuart received an Master of Arts in physics at the Delft University of Technology, and he received an Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Afterwards he worked at the operations research department of Royal Dutch Shell for 18 years. In 1969 he was appointed the first Professor in computer science at the Leiden University. From 1973 to 1974 he had been a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
Among his graduate student were Dewald Roode and Sjaak Brinkkemper.
Alex Verrijn Stuart was also an ice skater and mountaineer. In 1940 he skated his first Elfstedentocht 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 Mount Everest that failed.
In 1976 he was one of the founding members of the IFIP TC8 Technical Committee of Information Systems.