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    "I am very happy to inform you that **Project Jupyter** has been awarded the 2017 **ACM Software System Award**!\n",
    "\n",
    "As part of the *Jupyter Steering Council*, I am one of the official recipients of the award, but I wanted to highlight that I am just one member of a large group of people (contributors and users) working together to push the **Project Jupyter** forward and beyond its limits.\n",
    "\n",
    "**Project Jupyter** is an essential part of my life. It gave me the opportunity to work with amazing people, to learn a lot of new things, to help other people. Some years ago, I left academia for several reasons, but one of the most important ones was to find an opportunity to make a substantial impact on people’s lives. I wanted to be involved in something that could empower people to do amazing things. And I certainly believe that **Project Jupyter** filled that space and allowed me to achieve that goal more than I could imagine.\n",
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    "\n",
    "### Why is **Project Jupyter** receiving the ACM Award?\n",
    "\n",
    "There are several reasons, but let’s focus on the following:\n",
    "\n",
    "1) **Jupyter** is explicitly designed for the task of computing interactively\n",
    "\n",
    "**Jupyter** has become an important part of the daily workflow in research, education, journalism, and industry allowing people to process, analyze, and manipulate data and get insights from it in a fluid, pleasant, and effective way.\n",
    "\n",
    "2) **Jupyter** fosters communication and collaboration through open standardized formats\n",
    "\n",
    "The open and standardized **Jupyter** notebook file format is designed to capture, display and share natural language, code, and results in a single computational narrative. This is a key aspect of the scientific and research life cycle. You want to share your findings and thoughts with other people and **Jupyter** helps with that goal providing a self-contained and powerful computational narrative.\n",
    "\n",
    "The stability and interoperability of open standards also provide a foundation for others to experiment, collaborate, and build tools inspired by their unique goals and perspectives. We have also provided tools to support **Jupyter** deployment in multi-user environments, making it easier to access common computational resources and share live computational environments. **JupyterHub** (and **Binder**) now supports industry deployment, large-scale education and reproducible research.\n",
    "\n",
    "But the most important thing here, as I said before, is the **Jupyter Community**. **IPython** and **Jupyter** have grown to be the product of thousands of contributors and users. We are always seeking to ensure the project is welcoming, supports an increasingly diverse community, and helps solidify a foundation for it to be sustainable.\n",
    "\n",
    "Let’s make it crystal clear: **The project exists to serve the community and wouldn’t be possible without you**.\n",
    "\n",
    "So, thank **YOU** for your continuous support, contributions, and feedback!\n",
    "\n",
    "**PS**\n",
    "\n",
    "On a personal note, I would also like to thank **Anaconda, Inc**. I have been working here for a long time now and it was/is a great experience. I am grateful for the generous support they provided in building the next **Jupyter** experience, **JupyterLab**. And I am also grateful for the continuous support in my involvement with the **Jupyter** community. I really appreciate that!\n",
    "\n",
    "### Update (Jun)\n",
    "\n",
    "Last weekend a big part of the **Jupyter** team received the announced prize in the **ACM** 2018 banquet at San Francisco, CA.\n",
    "Some pics or it did not happen!\n",
    "\n",
    "![](../galleries/acm/1.jpg)\n",
    "\n",
    "A better quality one ;-)\n",
    "\n",
    "![](../galleries/acm/2.jpg)\n",
    "\n",
    "Thanks again to all who contributes to the project!"
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