Julian Seward is a British

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writer and

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contributor who lives in

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. He is commonly known for creating the

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compression tool in 1996, as well as the

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memory debugging toolset founded in 2000. In 2006, he won a second O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind. As of 2009, Seward worked at

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Contributions

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Valgrind Valgrind () is a programming tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling. Valgrind was originally designed to be a freely licensed memory debugging tool for Linux on x86, but has since evolved to become a generic framework ...

, 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
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