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Spencer Russell is a researcher and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, where his research interests range from large-scale wireless mesh networks and sensor infrastructure to audio spatialization and augmented musical performance systems. Spencer also maintains the AudioIO.jl Julia package and the JuliaAudio organization. He holds a BA from Oberlin College, a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and an MA from the MIT Media Lab. He has sound-designed sold-out theater performances in New York, done a marathon trans-Atlantic tour as a double-bassist, and ran a software and hardware development team that deployed multi-thousand unit building automation systems. He currently resides in Cambridge, MA with his wife Kate and dog, Eleanor Roosevelt.

About the Author

Leah is a software engineer at Google, sneaking in Julia scripts as opportunities arise. She wrote TypeCheck.jl, which implements type-based static analysis for Julia, in Julia. She has presented Julia workshopsat StrangeLoop, LambdaJam, Strata, and the Chicago Julia User Group.