Fernando Pérez (software developer)

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Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez is a physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. He became known as the developer of the IPython development environment. He is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and a founding member of NumFOCUS.

life and career

Pérez was born in Medellín , Colombia . He received his PhD in particle physics from the University of Colorado Boulder , where he worked on numerical simulations in Lattice QCD . In 2008 he went to California, where he initially worked as a research fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science . Today he works as an assistant professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics.

Create

Pérez started working on the IPython project in 2001 and is co-founder of Project Jupyter , which was spun off from the IPython project in 2014.

Awards

  • In 2012 Fernando Pérez received the FSF Award for his work on IPython, the predecessor of Project Jupyter.

Web links

Lectures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ PSF Membership Roster - Fellows. Python Software Foundation, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ NumFOCUS History. NumFOCUS, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b New Employee Profiles: Jan 2015. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ Project Jupyter gets $ 6M to expand collaborative data-science software. UC Berkeley, July 7, 2015, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ Faculty. University of California, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Nature (Ed.): Research tools: Jump off the page . March 26, 2014, doi : 10.1038 / nj7493-523a (English, nature.com [accessed December 16, 2019]).
  7. ^ History. The IPython Development Team, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ About Us. Project Jupyter, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ 2012 Free Software Award winners announced. Free Software Foundation, March 23, 2013, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Fernando Perez Wins 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Berkeley Research, UC, April 11, 2013, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Free Software Awards for IPython and OpenMRS. March 25, 2013, accessed December 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Perez, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian physicist, software developer and free software advocate
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Medellin , Colombia