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Fernando Pérez

Professor at the University of California, Berkeley · Colombia · On the map · Academics · Born 1972 · age 54

Fernando Pérez is a Colombian physicist, software developer, and free software advocate.

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FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software2013

About this person

He is best known as the creator of the IPython programming environment, for which he received the 2012 Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation and for his work on Project Jupyter for which he received the 2017 ACM Software System Award. He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization.

Country
Colombia
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1972 · age 54

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