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Julian Seward
Known for	bzip2, valgrind

Julian Seward is a British compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Stuttgart. ^[1] He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool in 1996, as well as the valgrind memory debugging toolset founded in 2000. In 2006, he won a second O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind.

Julian currently works at Mozilla. ^[2]

Contributions

• bzip2 (1996), a data compressor
• cacheprof (1999), a tool for locating the sources of D-cache misses
• 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

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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