Reinder Pieter (Reind) van de Riet (22 April 1939, Groningen – 18 December 2008, Baarn)[1] was a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus Professor Information Systems at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for the development of COLOR-X, a linguistically-based event modeling language for object modeling.

In 1970, he was appointed Professor Information Systems at the VU University Amsterdam, where he retired August 2000.

Among his Ph.D. students were Peter Apers (1982), Martin L. Kersten (1985), Frank Dignum (1989), Roel Wieringa (1990) and Frances Brazier (1991).

His research interests were in the field of "database and Knowledge bases; the use of Linguistics; Security and Privacy problems; and computational auditing.

He died in Baarn, Netherlands, 18 December 2008, shortly after a lecture trip through the United States.