Fabrice Bellard
| Fabrice Bellard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 (age 44–45) Grenoble, France |
| Known for | QEMU, FFmpeg, Tiny C Compiler, Bellard's formula |
| Website | bellard |
Fabrice Bellard (French pronunciation: [faˈbʁis bɛˈlaʁ]) is a computer programmer who is best known as the creator of the FFmpeg and QEMU software projects. He has also developed a number of other programs, including the Tiny C Compiler.
Bellard was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France and went to school in Lycée Joffre (Montpellier), where, at age 17, he created the executable compressor LZEXE. After studying at École Polytechnique, he went on to specialize at Télécom Paris in 1996.
In 1997, he discovered a new, faster formula to calculate single digits of pi in binary representation, known as Bellard's formula. It is a variant of the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula.
Bellard's entries won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice. In 2000, he won in the category "Most Specific Output" for a program that implemented the modular Fast Fourier Transform and used it to compute the then biggest known prime number, 26972593−1; and in 2001, he won in the category "Best Abuse of the Rules" for a tiny compiler (the source code being only 3 kB in size) of a strict subset of the C language for i386 Linux. The program itself is written in this language subset, i.e. it is self-hosting.
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