On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:14 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > After much discussion, a secret committee has made the following > announcement: > > ----------------------------------------- > > Minh Van Nguyen is an integral part of the Sage development effort. > He is awarded the 2010 Spies Development Prize in recognition of his > code contributions, release management, support for new users and > outstanding work on documentation. > > Minh's mathematical interests are primarily in discrete mathematics > and he has contributed substantial new code and fixes to the Sage > library, especially for cryptography and graph theory. Minh assumed > release management duties in Summer 2009 and has diligently performed > this difficult task with calm and goodwill. The build system and > documentation of the release cycle have greatly benefited from his > involvement. Present in the sage-devel IRC channel at all hours, he > welcomes newcomers and patiently helps with the most basic questions > about mathematics, syntax and programming, in addition to frequenting > the forums. His meticulous work on documentation is legendary within > the Sage community. Doctests, tutorials, manuals and web pages have > all benefited from his detailed work and suggestions for major > improvements and innovations. His release tours are useful, accurate > and informative chronicles of Sage development. > > For his consistently conscientious commitment to Sage development, > Minh Nguyen is the recipient of the 2010 Spies Development Prize. > This award carries a prize of $500 from the Sage Foundation (thanks to > Jaap Spies). > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > Congratulations! -- Tim Joseph Dumol <tim (at) timdumol (dot) com> http://timdumol.com -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
