Annual Spies Sage Development Prize

The Spies Sage Development Prize is an annual award worth $500 that will be given to a person who makes major and inspiring contributions to the development of the Sage Mathematical Software System. The goal of the prize is to acknowledge the recipient and to encourage him or her to continue to do excellent development work on Sage. It is funded by donations to the Sage Foundation by Jaap Spies, and cannot be awarded to the same person twice.

The first annual Spies Sage Development Prize is awarded to Michael Abshoff for his superb work improving the overall quality of the sage development process, making numerous high quality Sage releases, leading the way in drastically reducing memory leaks in Sage, and porting Sage to run on Windows, Solaris and 64-bit OS X.