Fosdem
2006 Edition Free and Open Source Software Developer's European Meeting






Speakers

Julian Seward

Valgrind Founder and Project Lead

Project:

Valgrind
speakers
Biography

Julian Seward is a recycled compiler hacker. He founded the Valgrind project in 2000 and is the project lead and a full time developer. He's also the author of bzip2, a data compression program.

Julian's background is in exotic compiler technology. He worked for several years on and with the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, an open source compiler for the functional language Haskell (http://www.haskell.org),with earlier postdoctoral work on compilation of a hybrid functional/OO language. More recently he led a small group developing a vectorizing code generator for SIMD architectures.

Julian lives with his wife Donna and two cats in Cambridge, UK. In his minimal spare time he enjoys dancing with the various folk dance groups in Cambridge.


Website http://www.valgrind.org
Contact
Talk slides seward.odp





© FOSDEM 2003-2005 - powered by Argon7 - Recovered thanks to Aigon.