Thanks you William and Jaap, and thank you all for your kind and encouraging comments and for making this a project and community I enjoy being a part of.
- Robert On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:52 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 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
