[Mini Biography from Old Official Magma Webpage]
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Allan Steel, BA (Hons, University Medal, Sydney), PhD (Sydney), joined the Magma
group in 1989.
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He has developed many of the fundamental data structures and algorithms
in Magma for multiprecision integers, finite fields, matrices,
polynomials and Gröbner bases. He has also developed the memory
manager, the environmental features (line editor, help system, etc.),
and the package system, and has also worked on the Magma language
interpreter. In collaboration, he has developed the code for lattice
theory (with Bernd Souvignier), invariant theory (with Gregor Kemper)
and module theory (with Jon Carlson and Derek Holt). One of his main
research goals is to develop fast practical implementations of
asymptotically-fast algorithms.