Fernando Pérez
1972
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Colombia
educated at: Universidad de Antioquia, University of Colorado Boulder
occupation: programmer, professor
award received: FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
official website: fperez.org
Fernando Pérez is a Colombian-American physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. He is best known as the creator of the IPython programming environment, for which he received the 2012 Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation and for his work on Project Jupyter for which he received the 2017 ACM Software System Award . He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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