... 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 -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
