Nathan Hurst
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Nathan Hurst is an Australian programmer. He currently (April 2011) works as a software engineer at Google
. Among the founders of the Inkscape
project, he also contributes to projects such as gtkmathview, matplotlib
, and the organ simulator aeolus
. He maintains The Circle
and libaffa, a C++
library for computing affine arithmetic
.
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
. Among the founders of the Inkscape
Inkscape
Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
project, he also contributes to projects such as gtkmathview, matplotlib
Matplotlib
matplotlib is a plotting library for the Python programming language and its NumPy numerical mathematics extension. It provides an object-oriented API which allows plots to be embedded into applications using generic GUI toolkits, like wxPython, Qt, or GTK...
, and the organ simulator aeolus
Aeolus
Aeolus was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which...
. He maintains The Circle
The Circle
The Circle is a peer-to-peer distributed file system written mainly in Python. It is based on the Chord distributed hash table .Development on the Circle has ceased in 2004.-Features:...
and libaffa, a C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
library for computing affine arithmetic
Affine arithmetic
Affine arithmetic is a model for self-validated numerical analysis. In AA, the quantities of interest are represented as affine combinations of certain primitive variables, which stand for sources of uncertainty in the data or approximations made during the computation.Affine arithmetic is meant...
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