Richard Craig Holt (February 13, 1941 – April 12, 2019) was an American-Canadian computer scientist.
Holt's main research areas were operating systems, programming languages and software engineering, contributing many seminal results to each.
In the fall of 2005, he was named #16 on Computing Canada's list of top 30 information technology movers and shakers in the country for the past 30 years.
[5][6] Holt died on April 12, 2019, on Quadra Island, British Columbia, Canada at the age of 78.
[8] In 2019 the Mining Software Repositories conference, the flagship conference in the area of repository mining that has been co-founded by Ric Holt, has established the Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award.