On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations, Jason. Well deserved! > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:32 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... 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 >>
Congratulations, Jason. As has already been said, well deserved! -- Benjamin Jones -- 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
