Julian Seward

Julian Seward

Julian Seward is a British compiler specialist and writes open source software. He became known as the author of bzip2 and valgrind . In 2004, Matthias Ettrich called him the one with the largest single contribution of new software on the x86 platform in recent years.

Contributions

• bzip2 - data compression
• cache prof
• Glasgow Haskell Compiler
• valgrind

Awards

• In July 2006, Julian Seward received the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award as "Best Toolmaker" for his contributions to Valgrind.

Web links

• Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward on dot.kde.org (English)

credentials

1. ↑ People behind KDE, Matthias Ettrich, Interview ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)