Alex Martelli

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Alex Martelli is a member of the Python Software Foundation and works, as of 2006, as "Über Tech Lead" for Google, Inc., in Mountain View, California. He holds a laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica from Bologna University (1980), and is the author of Python in a Nutshell, co-editor of the Python Cookbook, and has written other (mostly Python-related) materials. Martelli won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award, and the 2006 Frank Willison award for outstanding contributions to the Python community.

Before joining Google, Martelli spent a year designing chips with Texas Instruments; 8 years with IBM Research, gradually shifting from hardware to software, and winning three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards; 12 as Senior Software Consultant at think3 inc, developing libraries, network protocols, GUI engines, event frameworks, and web access frontends; and 3 more as a freelance consultant, working mostly for AB Strakt, a Python-centered software house in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has taught courses on programming, development methods, object-oriented design, and numerical computing, at Ferrara University and other schools. According to Martelli's self-evaluation, his proudest achievement is the articles that appeared in Bridge World (January/February 2000), which were hailed as giant steps towards solving issues that had haunted contract-bridge theoreticians for decades.

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  • Martelli, Alex (July 2006). Python in a Nutshell. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-10046-9. 
  • Martelli, Alex; David Ascher, Anna Ravenscroft (March 2005). Python Cookbook. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-00797-3. 

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Note: This article is based on autobiographical material at http://www.aleax.it/bio.txt, released as GFDL.

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