In Memoriam
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 has been an invaluable member of our community and contributor to both SPEC
RG and ICPE since their inception back in 2010.
Julie Reilly
The SPEC community mourns the passing of Julie Reilly, a long-time member of the SPEC community
and an invaluable contributor to the SPEC CPU Committee. Starting in 2004, she volunteered as
a supporting contributor, handling beta testing and document review for the SPEC CPU 2006 and
SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark suites.
Reinhold Weicker
SPEC mourns the passing of Reinhold Weicker on March 23, 2018. The author of the Dhrystone benchmark, Reinhold added his
software engineering and performance expertise to SPEC's benchmark projects. His
participation brought European companies and universities into SPEC and helped
begin our technical symposia, which grew into a separate research group and
the ICPE joint conference with ACM.
Alan Adamson
Alan Adamson passed away
October 31, 2012. Alan served as chair of the Java
and OSG Steering Committees. He helped establish and did much
of the hard work to create the SPEC Research Group and the ICPE
series of joint conferences with ACM. In addition, Alan served
as the Board's inspector of elections and was a supporting contributor
to the Power Committee.
Larry Gray
Larry Gray,
longtime SPEC treasurer, passed away on January 30, 2011. Larry was
involved from SPEC from its inception, and in addition to serving
as treasurer he participated in the development of many of SPEC's
benchmarks.
Tom Skornia
Tom
Skornia, legal counsel to SPEC for much of its history, succumbed
to cancer Wednesday, April 27th, 2005. Tom was not necessarily a public
person, but behind the scenes his bright mind and hard work on behalf
of many companies and consortia in the industry was a key factor in
our successes.
Kaivalya Dixit
Kaivalya
Dixit, long-time SPEC president, passed away on 22 November,
2004. Kaivalya touched many across the computer performance community
and will be missed by all. SPEC has established a page where visitors
may read remembrances of Kaivalya or
share their own.
