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FSF Free Software Awards
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) grants two annual awards. Since 1998, FSF has granted the award for Advancement of Free Software and since 2005, also the Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit. Presentation ceremonies In 1999 the award for Advancement of Free Software was presented at the Jacob Javits Center European Meeting (FOSDEM). Since 2006, the awards have been presented at the FSF's annual members meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Advancement of Free Software award The Advancement of Free Software award is annually presented by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to a person whom it deems to have made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. Winners SourceAward for the Advancement of Free Software ;1998 Larry Wall : for numerous contributions to Free Software, notably Perl. The other finalists were the Apache Project, Tim Berners-Lee, Jordan Hubbard, Ted Lem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matz
Matz may refer to: First names * Matz Sandman (born 1948), Norwegian politician * Matz Robert Eriksson (born 1972), Swedish musician Surnames * Evelyn Matz (born 1955), German handballer * Howard Matz (born 1943), American judge * Jeff Matz (born 1977), American bass guitarist * Johanna Matz (1932–2025), Austrian actress * Johnny Matz (1892–1969), American ice hockey player * Klaus-Dieter Matz (born 1932), German handballer * Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (1926–2013), American biographer * Michael R. Matz (born 1951), American equestrian * Peter Matz (1928–2002), American musician, composer, arranger and conductor * Rudolf Matz (1901–1988), Croatian composer * Steven Matz (born 1991), American baseball player Places * , a river in the French department of Oise with the following communes: * Canny-sur-Matz * Marest-sur-Matz * Margny-sur-Matz * Ressons-sur-Matz * Roye-sur-Matz Pseudonyms * Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese computer scientist, creator of the programming language Ruby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Pérez (software Developer)
Fernando Pérez is a Colombian physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. 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. Life and career Fernando Pérez was born in Medellín, Colombia, and has BSc in Physics from University of Antioquia and a PhD in particle physics from University of Colorado Boulder, where he worked on numerical simulations in Lattice QCD. He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as an associate professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics. Previously, he was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and associate researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). Pérez was named Facul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukihiro Matsumoto
, also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its original reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). , Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of the Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization within Rakuten Group, Inc. He was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. starting in June 2014. Early life Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, he was raised in Tottori from the age of four. According to an interview conducted by ''Japan Inc.'', he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from University of Tsukuba where he was a member of Ikuo Nakata's research lab on programming languages and compilers. Work He works for the Japanese open source company Netlab.jp. Mats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Savoye
Rob or ROB may refer to: Places * Rob, Velike Lašče, a settlement in Slovenia * Republic of Belarus People * Rob (given name), a given name or nickname, e.g., for Robert(o), Robin/Robyn * Rob (surname) * ''Rob.'', taxonomic author abbreviation for William Robinson (gardener) (1838–1935), Irish practical gardener and journalist Arts and entertainment * ''Rob'' (TV series), an American comedy show * ''Rob Riley'' (comic strip), a British comic strip named after its titular character * ''Rob the Robot'' (TV series), a TV series named after its titular character * Rob, a character from the Cartoon Network series ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' * ROB 64, a character in the ''Star Fox'' video game series * '' Castlevania: Rondo of Blood'', a 1993 video game nicknamed ''Castlevania: ROB'' * R.O.B., an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System Science and technology * Re-order buffer (ROB), used for out-of-order execution in microprocessors * Robertsonian transloca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gilmore (activist)
John Gilmore (born 1955) is an American activist. He is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the ''alt.*'' hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU Project. An outspoken civil libertarian, Gilmore has sued the Federal Aviation Administration, the United States Department of Justice, and others. He was the plaintiff in the prominent case '' Gilmore v. Gonzales'', challenging secret travel-restriction laws, which he lost. He is an advocate for drug policy reform. He co-authored the Bootstrap Protocol in 1985, which evolved into Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), the primary way local networks assign an IP address to devices. Life and career As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Support, he became wealthy enough to retire early and pursue other interests. He is also one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation based in San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gilmore
John Gilmore may refer to: * John Gilmore (activist) (born 1955), co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Cygnus Solutions * John Gilmore (musician) (1931–1995), American jazz saxophonist * John Gilmore (representative) (1780–1845), Pennsylvania politician * John Gilmore (tenor) (1950–1994), American operatic tenor * John Gilmore (writer) (1935–2016), American true crime writer, author of Hollywood memoirs, and novelist * John C. Gilmore (1837–1922), American Civil War soldier * John S. Gilmore, American sociologist * John Gilmore (American football) (John H. Gilmore, born 1979), American football player * John W. Gilmore (1872–1942), American agronomist, educator and academic administrator See also * John Gilmour (other) * Gilmore (surname) Gilmore and Gillmore are surnames with several origins and meanings. The name can be of Ireland, Irish, in particular from Ulster, and Scotland, Scottish Scottish Highlands, Highland origin, Anglicised f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wietse Venema
Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote TCP Wrapper and collaborated with Dan Farmer to produce the computer security tools SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit. Biography He studied physics at the University of Groningen, continuing there to get a PhD in 1984 with the dissertation ''Left-right symmetry in nuclear beta decay''. He spent 12 years at Eindhoven University as a systems architect in the Mathematics and Computer Science department, and spent part of this time writing tools for Electronic Data Interchange. Since emigrating to the U.S. in 1996 and until 2015, he has been working for the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State. On March 24, 2015, he announced he was leaving IBM for Google. Awards Awards Venema has received for his work: * Security Summit Hall of Fame Award (July 1998) * SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award (November 1999) * NLUUG Award (November 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Welte
Harald Welte, also known as LaForge, is a German programmer. Welte is the founder of the free software project Osmocom and was formerly involved in the netfilter/iptables and Openmoko projects. He is a member of the Chaos Computer Club. Biography Until 2007, Welte was the chairman of the core team responsible for the netfilter/iptables project. He is also credited with writing the ''UUCP over SSL how-to'', and contributions to User-mode Linux and international encryption kernel projects, among others. Welte has become prominent for his work with gpl-violations.org, an organisation he set up in 2004 to track down and prosecute violators of the GPL, which had been untested in court until then. Welte was part of Openmoko team, a project to create a smartphone platform using free software. However, in 2007, Welte announced his withdrawal from Openmoko, citing internal friction and demotivation. He continues to contribute as a volunteer to the project. On 25 July 2008, VIA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
