Jeremy Ashkenas
Jeremy Ashkenas is a computer programmer known for the creation and co-creation of the CoffeeScript and LiveScript programming languages respectively, the Backbone.js JavaScript framework and the Underscore.js JavaScript library. Ashkenas has been a speaker at numerous conferences and events. He worked in the graphics department at The New York Times until September 2015 and returned there in September 2016. While there, he shared the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for Images/Graphics/Interactives. As of 2018, he works at Observable, a company founded by
Melody Meckfessel and Mike Bostock
that aims to create interactive notebooks.
