Sam Hocevar
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Samuel Hocevar (born August 5, 1978) is a French programmer, and will be the Debian Project Leader starting April 17,2007.[1] In 2005-2006 he was a WikiMedia France board member.[2]
Samuel is best known for his contributions to the Debian and VideoLAN projects. He has made large contributions to almost all software of the VideoLAN project, especially to VLC media player, since 1998 and he is the author of various software programs, such as zzuf, a data fuzzer, and libcaca, a color ASCII art renderer. Besides this, he helped reverse engineer DVD-subtitles in 2000[3] and wrote a Captcha decoder called PWNtcha in 2005.[4][5]
He graduated in 2000 from École Centrale Paris, one of the most elite French Grandes écoles of engineering, where he specialized in electromechanical systems and applied mechatronics, and project management.
References
- ^ "debian-devel-announce mailing list: Debian Project Leader Election 2007 Results". Retrieved 2007-04-09.
- ^ "2005-2006 WikiMedia France Conseil d'administration" (in French). Retrieved 2007-04-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "DVD subtitles". Retrieved 2007-04-09.
- ^ "PWNtcha website". Retrieved 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Defeating Captcha". 2005-08-24. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
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