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Plenary Talk: The Jupyter project: scientific computing, user interfaces, and community building

Fernando Perez

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley;
Faculty Scientist at the Data Science and Technology Division of
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://fperez.org/

Abstract

About the speaker

Fernando Perez is a researcher originally working on applied problems in physics, mathematics and neuroscience and now focusing on the question of building tools for computational research across all scientific domains. He is mostly known in the scientific community for being the creator of the IPython project which had a vast impact for development in multiple scientific domains: from astronomy to pure mathematics. More recently, IPython gave birth to the Jupyter project: an open-source cross-language user interface for data science and scientific computing.

Fernando Perez was awarded –as part of the Jupyter team– the 2017 ACM Software System Award, and the 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his contributions to the open source scientific python ecosystem. He is a founder and a board member of the NumFOCUS foundation as a founding co-investigator of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.