Congratulations to Robert. While his technical contributions obviously more than qualify him for this award, I have always been equally impressed by his willingness to help on sage-support and other forums (and in person), as well as his thoughtful contributions to sometimes heated discussions. He has really helped in maintaining the overall positive environment in Sage development that keeps me excited about it, and which I think attracts new developers and users.
-Marshall Hampton On Jul 18, 3:52 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Sage-devel, > > The 2011 recipient of the Spies Sage Development Prize > (http://www.sagemath.org/development-prize.html) goes to Robert > Bradshaw. > > "Robert Bradshaw has been an extremely active and productive Sage > developer for over five years. Additionally, he has been a leader, > both in maintaining the community and in important design decisions. > > He is probably best known for his work on Cython, which is critical > for the performance of many key parts of Sage, and his work designing > and implementing the coercion model, which makes many powerful > mathematical constructions possible. However, his interests and > significant contributions are wide-ranging, including: exact linear > algebra, arithmetic of elliptic curves, L-functions, 3-D plotting and > parallel building. A recent project is the patchbot tool, which > automates testing contributions posted on trac. Moreover, he is an > important contributor to trouble-shooting and design discussions in > the sage-devel forum and is also the third most numerous poster of all > time in the sage-support forum. > > For his many important technical contributions, and his long-time and > continuing involvement in the Sage community, Robert Bradshaw is > awarded the 2011 Spies Sage Development Prize. This award carries a > prize of $500 from the Sage Foundation (thanks to Jaap Spies)." > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
