We are pleased to announce that Nelson Zarate will be joining the IRAF group in June, to work as a member of the IRAF systems group. Nelson comes to us from STScI where he has worked as a scientific programmer with the STSDAS group for the past ten years; prior to his employment at STScI, Nelson worked as a programmer at CTIO and the University of Texas. Nelson received his Masters of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Loyola College. Nelson brings with him a strong background in IRAF system development with a wide breadth of experience in a variety of operating systems. Nelson's recent list of accomplishments with the STSDAS group includes the initial ports to the DEC Alpha under OSF/1 and OpenVMS, as well as FITS image kernel development for IRAF.
Doug Tody