Fernando Pérez (software developer)
Fernando Pérez | |
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Pérez in 2012 | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Education | Physics |
| Alma mater | University of Antioquia (BSc) University of Colorado Boulder (PhD) |
| Occupation | Associate Professor |
| Employer | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | IPython and Project Jupyter programming environments |
| Awards | Free Software Award, ACM Software System Award |
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.