On Oct 10, 2008, at 01:57 , William Stein wrote:
> The Spies Sage Development Prize is an annual award worth $500 that
> will be
> given each year to a person who makes passionate and inspiring
> contributions
> to the development of the Sage Mathematical Software System. The
> goal of
> prize is to acknowledge the recipient and to encourage him or her to
> continue to do excellent development work on Sage. It is funded by
> donations to the Sage Foundation by Jaap Spies, and cannot be awarded
> to the same person twice.
>
> The first annual Spies Sage Development Prize is awarded to Michael
> Abshoff for
> his superb work improving the overall quality of the sage
> development process,
> making numerous high quality Sage releases, leading the way in
> drastically
> reducing memory leaks in Sage, and porting Sage to run on Windows,
> Solaris
> and 64-bit OS X.
>
> Please join me in congratulating Michael Abshoff! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
> )
A tip of the hat to Michael. The recognition is well-deserved.
Congratulations, Michael!
Thanks to Jaap for doing this. It's a great idea.
Justin
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Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large
Director
Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income
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