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Newsletter December 2018 - Julia Is a GitHub Star

Written by JuliaHub | Dec 04, 2018

Julia GitHub stars have nearly doubled since the release of Julia 1.0 and Julia is one of the top 10 languages on GitHub measured by stars and forks. 

Forbes has named Julia Computing co-founder and CTO Keno Fischer to its prestigious ‘30 Under 30’ list of young leaders in enterprise technology.

The JuliaCon 2018 highlight video and JuliaCon 2018 presentations are available on the JuliaCon 2018 YouTube channel.

 

JuliaTeam is an enterprise solution that works seamlessly behind your organization’s firewall, resolves proxy server issues and facilitates package development, installation, management and control. For more information, contact us.

Julia Computing offers online and offline training including Intro to Julia, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and customized courses at every level. Registration is available here. Live instructor-led online courses include:

Julia Computing has awarded more than $18 thousand in diversity and inclusion grants to 5 recipients, generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The Financial Times reports “US government number-crunchers have been trying to measure the value of “free” open-source software, such as R, Python, Julia and JavaScript, concluding that if captured in statistics these would be worth about $3bn a year.”

The third annual JuMP-dev workshop takes place March 12-14 in Santiago, Chile. Registration is free and talk proposal submissions are encouraged.

New Julia case studies:

  • Racefox is using Julia with wearable technology to coach competitive skiers

  • Nature Communications published a paper on single cell RNA sequencing by researchers from the RIKEN Advanced Center for Computing and Communication (ACCC) Bioinformatics Research Unit (BRU)

Julia and Julia Computing in the News

  • Financial Times: Recalculating GDP for the Facebook Age

  • Quartz: Researchers Estimate that Python, JavaScript and R Contribute Billions to GDP

  • Forbes: 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology - Julia Computing Co-Founder and CTO Keno Fischer

  • Times of India: Bengaluru Pays the Highest Salaries in India

  • Financial Express: Highest Salaries in India

  • Technotification: Julia vs. Python - Which Programming Language Should You Learn?

  • EurekAlert: StataCorp and Code Ocean Partner to Accelerate Reproducible Research with Code

  • Technology Zimbabwe: HIT To Host First PyData Zim Meetup In Hopes Of Creating A Data Science Community

  • Analytics India: Machine Learning 101 - How To Kickstart Your Learning Journey

  • MarkTechPost: Jump Headfirst into Machine Learning

Julia Blog Posts

Upcoming Julia Events

Recent Julia Events

Julia Meetup Groups: There are 37 Julia Meetup groups worldwide with 8,503 members. If there’s a Julia Meetup group in your area, we hope you will consider joining, participating and helping to organize events. If there isn’t, we hope you will consider starting one.

Julia Jobs, Fellowships and Internships

Do you work at or know of an organization looking to hire Julia programmers as staff, research fellows or interns? Would your employer be interested in hiring interns to work on open source packages that are useful to their business? Help us connect members of our community to great opportunities by sending us an email, and we'll get the word out.

There are more than 170 Julia jobs currently listed on Indeed.com, including jobs at Accenture, BlackRock, Boeing, Conning, Dow Jones, CBRE, McKinsey, Huawei, Instacart, IBM, NBCUniversal, comScore, Disney, Gallup, Mathematica, Zillow, Facebook, National Renewable Energy Research Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, Columbia University, Rutgers University, University of Illinois - Chicago, University of South Florida, Washington State University and Brown University.

Contact Us: Please contact us if you wish to:

  • Purchase or obtain license information for Julia products such as JuliaTeam, JuliaPro or JuliaBox

  • Obtain pricing for Julia consulting projects for your organization

  • Schedule Julia training for your organization

  • Share information about exciting new Julia case studies or use cases

  • Spread the word about an upcoming conference, workshop, training, hackathon, meetup, talk or presentation involving Julia

  • Partner with Julia Computing to organize a Julia meetup, conference, workshop, training, hackathon, talk or presentation involving Julia

  • Submit a Julia internship, fellowship or job posting

About Julia and Julia Computing

Julia is the fastest high performance open source computing language for data, analytics, algorithmic trading, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other scientific and numeric computing applications. Julia solves the two language problem by combining the ease of use of Python and R with the speed of C++. Julia provides parallel computing capabilities out of the box and unlimited scalability with minimal effort. For example, Julia has run at petascale on 650,000 cores with 1.3 million threads to analyze over 56 terabytes of data using Cori, one of the ten largest and most powerful supercomputers in the world. With more than 2 million downloads, 1,900 registered packages, 41 thousand GitHub stars and +101% annual download growth, Julia is one of the top programming languages developed on GitHub. Julia adoption is growing rapidly in finance, insurance, machine learning, energy, robotics, genomics, aerospace, medicine and many other fields.

Julia Computing was founded in 2015 by all the creators of Julia to develop products and provide professional services to businesses and researchers using Julia.

To learn more, please visit the Case Studies section on the Julia Computing Website.

Julia users, partners and employers hiring Julia programmers in 2018 include Amazon, Apple, BlackRock, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capital One, Comcast, Disney, Ernst & Young, Facebook, Ford, Google, IBM, Intel, KPMG, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Oracle, PwC, Uber, and many more.
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