Julian Seward

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Julian Seward

Known for	bzip

Julian Seward is a compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Cambridge, UK. He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool, as well as the valgrind memory debugging toolset founded in 2000. In 2006, he won a second Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind.

Julian currently works at Mozilla.^[1]

Contributions

bzip2 - data compressor
cacheprof - a tool for locating the sources of D-cache misses
GHC - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
Valgrind - a memory debugger

Awards

July 2006 Julian Seward won a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for "Best Toolmaker" for his work on Valgrind

References

↑ Rob Sayre's Blog

External links

Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward on techrepublic.com, January 2004.
Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward on kde.org, February 2006.

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