Congarts, Jason! On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 07:32:23 UTC+3, William wrote: > > ... Jason Grout! > > CITATION: > > Jason Grout is a constant presence across the Sage landscape. He is > extremely active in the discussion groups, comments on many tickets, > contributes code to the core Sage library, improves the documentation, > and works tirelessly to improve the notebook interface. He > contributes in many ways to make Sage a better tool for mathematics > research, but he is perhaps most recognized for his efforts to make > Sage an effective tool for teaching mathematics. > > Jason's mathematical tastes have resulted in major code contributions > for linear algebra, graph theory, plotting and symbolics. These are > all important areas for the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. But > he is equally interested in Sage infrastructure, such as LaTeX > representation, usability improvements to Trac server, format and > delivery of documentation, and NumPy/SciPy integration. With a strong > background in web applications, his work on the notebook interface is > both visionary and technically strong. A recent project he runs is > the Sage Cell Server, which allows a remote server to accept Sage code > and return results without any account or login. This can power > interactive demonstrations on web pages or computations via mobile > devices, and the principles and implementations will be used in > increasing the scalability of Sage servers. As an example of his > interest in education, this project has involved several undergraduate > students in significant ways. Jason also gives freely of his time to > help other users and developers. He is the second most numerous > poster of all time in the sage-support forum, in the top five for the > sage-devel, sage-edu and sage-notebook forums, and he has the > fifth-highest karma at the Ask Sage site. > > For his significant and inspiring technical contributions, his massive > contributions to the vitality of the Sage community, his work on > making Sage available via the notebook and cell servers, and his > interest in education, Jason Grout is awarded the 2012 Spies Sage > Development Prize. This award carries a prize of $500 from the Sage > Foundation (thanks to Jaap Spies). > > Join us in congratulating him! > > - The Prize Committee >
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