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'''Mark Galassi''' is a physicist, computer scientist and contributor to the [[Free and open-source software]] movement. He was born in Manhattan, grew up in France and Italy, and lives in [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]].
'''Mark Galassi''' is a physicist, computer scientist, and contributor to the [[Free and open-source software]] movement. He was born in Manhattan, grew up in France and Italy, and lives in [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]].


== Current work ==
== Current work ==
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* [[Gamma-ray burst]]s: [[High Energy Transient Explorer|High_Energy_Transient_Explorer_1]] and [[HETE-2|HETE_2]] satellites, the [[Fenton Hill Observatory#RAPTOR|Raptor telescope suite]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210008 |title=Real-Time Detection of Optical Transients with RAPTOR}}</ref><ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03515</ref>, the [[Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission|Swift]] satellite.
* [[Gamma-ray burst]]s: [[High Energy Transient Explorer|High_Energy_Transient_Explorer_1]] and [[HETE-2|HETE_2]] satellites, the [[Fenton Hill Observatory#RAPTOR|Raptor telescope suite]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210008 |title=Real-Time Detection of Optical Transients with RAPTOR}}</ref><ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03515</ref>, the [[Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission|Swift]] satellite.
* [[Muon tomography]]: Cosmic-ray muon tomography to detect high-Z materials.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rick_Chartrand/publication/242511120_COSMIC-RAY_MUON_TOMOGRAPHY_AND_ITS_APPLICATION_TO_THE_DETECTION_OF_HIGH-Z_MATERIALS/links/00b7d5298dcfca1507000000.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/422277a</ref>
* [[Muon tomography]]: Cosmic-ray muon tomography to detect high-Z materials.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rick_Chartrand/publication/242511120_COSMIC-RAY_MUON_TOMOGRAPHY_AND_ITS_APPLICATION_TO_THE_DETECTION_OF_HIGH-Z_MATERIALS/links/00b7d5298dcfca1507000000.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/422277a</ref>
* [[Nuclear nonproliferation]]: Scientific methods to address the spread of nuclear materials and weapons.
* [[Nuclear nonproliferation]]: Scientific methods to address the spread of nuclear materials and weapons.<ref>https://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.818735</ref>
* [[Machine learning]]: The Genie feature extraction system.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://genie.lanl.gov/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-10-25 |archive-date=2017-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423183131/http://genie.lanl.gov/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Machine learning]]: The Genie feature extraction system.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://genie.lanl.gov/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-10-25 |archive-date=2017-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423183131/http://genie.lanl.gov/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>


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Mark Galassi
Born1965-01-08 (1965-01-08) (age 59)
Manhattan, New York
Alma materReed College
Stony Brook University
OccupationScientist
Known forGNU Scientific Library • Gamma-ray Bursts • Institute for Computing in Research
Awards

Mark Galassi is a physicist, computer scientist, and contributor to the Free and open-source software movement. He was born in Manhattan, grew up in France and Italy, and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Current work

He works in the Space Science and Applications group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research scientist.

In Los Alamos he has worked in:

Galassi has been involved in the GNU project since 1984 He designed the GNU Scientific Library together with James Theiler[7]. He was also an early contributor to GNOME[8], and designed and led development of the Dominion world simulation game[9].

He has served on the board of directors of the Software Freedom Conservancy [10] from its inception until the present time. He also was chair of the board until 2022[11].

In 2019, Galassi conceived of and co-founded the Institute for Computing in Research[12], a non-profit which trains high school students to do research, deeply rooted in free/open-source software.

Education

Galassi studied at the Liceo classico Giuseppe Parini[13][circular reference], graduating in 1983.

He completed his BA in physics at Reed College in 1986.[14]

He then completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1992 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook[15] under Martin Roček[16].

He also worked for Tektronix on the 11000 series oscilloscope, Cygnus Solutions (now part of Red Hat) working on Guile and eCos.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Real-Time Detection of Optical Transients with RAPTOR".
  2. ^ https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03515
  3. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rick_Chartrand/publication/242511120_COSMIC-RAY_MUON_TOMOGRAPHY_AND_ITS_APPLICATION_TO_THE_DETECTION_OF_HIGH-Z_MATERIALS/links/00b7d5298dcfca1507000000.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ https://www.nature.com/articles/422277a
  5. ^ https://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.818735
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-04-23. Retrieved 2017-10-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ https://zenodo.org/record/3818202
  8. ^ https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1998-January/author.html
  9. ^ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Dominion
  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-09-18. Retrieved 2022-08-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/dec/27/matcher-interview-mark-galassi/
  12. ^ https://computinginresearch.org/
  13. ^ it:Liceo classico Giuseppe Parini
  14. ^ "Theses - Physics - Reed College".
  15. ^ "People at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics".
  16. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project - Martin Rocek".
  17. ^ http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/5.1/en/os/i386/gnome/docs/gnome-intro/index.html

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