Hans Reiser
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Hans Reiser in 2006
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Hans Thomas Reiser December 19, 1963 Oakland, California, USA |
| Occupation | Computer programmer, entrepreneur |
| Known for | ReiserFS, murder |
| Criminal penalty | 15 years to life imprisonment |
| Criminal status | Imprisoned at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Fresno County, California |
| Spouse(s) | Nina Reiser (m. 1998; murdered 2006) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Conviction(s) | First degree murder by jury, reduced to second degree murder by judge in plea deal |
Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer. He is the creator of the ReiserFS computer file system, which is contained within the Linux kernel, as well as its attempted successor, Reiser4. In 2004, he founded Namesys, a corporation meant to coordinate the development of both file systems. In April 2008, Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, Nina Reiser, who disappeared in September 2006. He subsequently pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder, as part of a settlement agreement that included disclosing the location of his wife's body, revealed to be in a shallow grave near the couple's home.
Hans Reiser was born and raised in Oakland, California to Ramon and Beverly (née Kleiber) Reiser. He dropped out of junior high school when he was 13 because of his disdain for what he considered an overly rigid, conventional schooling system, and for constantly being ridiculed and bullied by his peers. Reiser has stated in interviews that at the age of 15, he was accepted at the University of California, Berkeley. Reiser attended the university off and on until he received a BS in computer science in 1992 at the age of 28. Although Reiser preferred higher education, he did not pursue a Ph.D. for the same educational reasons for dropping out of junior high school. He worked part- to full-time in the computer field while founding the California-based software company Namesys Inc. Before Namesys, Reiser was employed at Synopsys, IBM Research, Premenos Corp., and Accurate Information Systems.
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