Mark Galassi

Mark Galassi is a physicist, computer scientist and contributor to the free software movement. He was born in Manhattan, grew up in France and Italy and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mark Galassi
BornJanuary 8, 1965
Manhattan
NationalityAmerican
EducationReed College
Stony Brook University
OccupationScientist
Known forGNU Scientific Library

Current Work

He works in the Space Science and Applications group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Research Scientist

In Los Alamos he has worked in:

  • Gamma-ray bursts: HETE and HETE-2 satellites, the Raptor telescope, the Swift satellite.
  • Muon tomography: Cosmic-ray muon tomography to detect high-Z materials.[1]
  • Nuclear nonproliferation: Scientific methods to address the spread of nuclear materials and weapons.
  • Machine learning: The Genie feature extraction system.[2]

Mark Galassi has been involved in the GNU project since 1984 and designed the GNU Scientific Library together with James Theiler and contributed to other free software projects (GNOME, Dominion).

He is also currently board chair and vice president of the Software Freedom Conservancy.[3]

Education

He studied at the Liceo classico Giuseppe Parini[4], graduating in 1983.

He completed his BA in Physics at Reed College in 1986.[5]

He then completed his Ph.D. in Physics in 1992 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook under Martin Roček.[6]

He also worked for Tektronix, Cygnus Solutions (now part of Red Hat) working on Guile and eCos.[7]

gollark: I wholeheartedly disagree with removal of apioderivative words.1. This is dubious. Current research suggests nonlinear apioformic effects, where high use of apio-derived words leads to increased use due to memetic contamination, rather than a conserved/fixed level of apiodensity.2. I am, in any case, inevitable. Additionally, I do not consider this good.3. This appears to contradict #1 somewhat. We have also proven unable to displace the "apioform"/"bee" meme, despite previous attempts. If you want to remove it, come up with better memetics.
gollark: Wrong.
gollark: Did you know? There have been many incidents in the past where improper apiary safety protocols have lead to unbounded tetrational apiogenesis, also referred to as a VK-class "universal apiary" scenario. Often, the fallout from this needs to be cleaned up by moving all sentient entities into identical simulated universes, save for the incident occurring. This is known as "retroactive continuity", and modern apiaries' safety systems provide this functionality automatically.
gollark: I am not in any way a pizza, related to pizza, or advertising pizzas. I have had no commercial or personal relations with pizza companies, and do not, in fact, regularly eat pizza. I am not engaged in any form of pizza advertising, subliminal or otherwise. Any claims to the contrary will be considered wrong and bad, and should not be promulgated.
gollark: Wow, the sheer activity.

References
  1. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rick_Chartrand/publication/242511120_COSMIC-RAY_MUON_TOMOGRAPHY_AND_ITS_APPLICATION_TO_THE_DETECTION_OF_HIGH-Z_MATERIALS/links/00b7d5298dcfca1507000000.pdf
  2. http://genie.lanl.gov/
  3. https://sfconservancy.org/about/officers/
  4. it:Liceo classico Giuseppe Parini
  5. http://academic.reed.edu/physics/theses.html
  6. http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/www/people
  7. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/5.1/en/os/i386/gnome/docs/gnome-intro/index.html
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