Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

André van Hoorn

SPEC Research Group Vice Chair André van Hoorn, a longtime member of our community, passed away on Saturday, June 8, 2024. André is survived by his wife, Merle, and their three children aged 11, 7, and 3.

André has been an invaluable member of our community and contributor to both SPEC RG and ICPE since their inception back in 2010. Over the years, he has served in numerous roles including RG Vice Chair (since 2015), Co-Founder and Chair of the RG DevOps Performance Working Group (since 2014), RG Publicity Officer (2013-2015), and RG Steering Committee Member (since 2014).

His service was recognized among others with a SPECtacular Contributor Award from David Reiner, SPEC President, presented in Austin at the SPEC 2015 Annual Meeting. Despite his condition, André decided to attend ICPE 2024 in London, which speaks to his courage and strong dedication to the SPEC & ICPE community until the last moment.

In addition to SPEC RG, André has been a key member of the ICPE community, contributing high-quality papers on a regular basis, being a regular Program Committee (PC) member, and serving in numerous roles, including RG Steering Committee member, Web and Publicity Chair (2015), Tutorials Chair (2016), Finance Chair (2017), PC Chair (2018), Awards Chair (2019), and Artifacts Chair (2020). He has also been involved in co-organizing RG-supported events (e.g., GI-Dagstuhl seminar, QUDOS workshop series, journal special issues) as well as many additional activities behind the scenes.

His precious friendship, dedication, and excellent work will be immensely missed! André's brother Boris asks everyone to have a beer to toast him, that is what André would have wanted!