Fernando Pérez (software developer)
Fernando Pérez | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Colombian |
Education | Physics |
Alma mater | University of Colorado |
Occupation(s) | Staff Scientist and Associate Researcher |
Employer(s) | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Berkeley Institute for Data Science |
Known for | IPython programming environment |
Awards | Free Software Award |
Website | fperez |
Fernando Pérez is a physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. He is best known as the creator of the IPython programming environment, [1][2][3][4][5][6] for which he received the 2012 Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation. [7][8][9] He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation,[10] and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization. [11][12]
Life and Career
Fernando Pérez was born in Medellín, Colombia, and has a PhD in Particle Physics from University of Colorado Boulder, where he worked on numerical simulations in Lattice QCD. [13] He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory[13] and associate researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. [11][14]
Pérez began working on IPython as a side project in 2001.[1][8][15]
References
- ^ a b Research Tools: Jump Off the Page by Amanda Mascarelli. Nature 507, 523-525 (March 2014) doi:10.1038/nj7493-523a
- ^ Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code by Helen Shen. Nature 515, 151–152 (November 2014) doi:10.1038/515151a
- ^ IPython founder details road map for interactive computing platform by Paul Krill. Infoworld, February 14, 2014
- ^ IPython Sponsored By Microsoft by Alex Armstrong. I Programmer, October 2013
- ^ $6M for UC Berkeley and Cal Poly to expand and enhance open-source software for scientific computing and data science. Moore Foundation Press Release, July 2015.
- ^ UC Berkeley, Cal Poly Receive $6 Million for Open Source Project by Leila Meyer. Campus Technology, July 2015.
- ^ 2012 Free Software Award winners announced by Libby Reinish. Free Software Foundation, March 2013.
- ^ a b Wresting New Tricks From a Python: Fernando Perez Wins 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software by Wallace Ravven, Berkeley Research News, April 2013
- ^ Free Software Awards für IPython und OpenMRS. heise Open Source, March 2013
- ^ Python Software Foundation Fellows
- ^ a b Berkely Institute for Data Science: People
- ^ NumFOCUS member list
- ^ a b LBL new hires: January 2015
- ^ Project Jupyter gets $6M to expand collaborative data-science software by Sarah Yang. UC Berkeley News, July 07 2015
- ^ IPython History