Newsletter January 2019 - Julia Co-Creators Win Wilkinson Prize

Julia Co-Creators Win Wilkinson Prize: Julia co-creators Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Viral Shah are the winners of the prestigious James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. This prize is awarded every four years to recognize innovative software in scientific computing. The award will be presented at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) in Spokane, WA Feb 25-Mar 1, 2019.

Julia Growth Metrics

Note: Julia can also call C, C++, Fortran, Python, R, Java and MPI libraries

Julia GitHub Stars: Julia GitHub stars have nearly doubled since the Aug 2018 release of Julia 1.0 and Julia is one of the top 10 languages on GitHub measured by stars and forks.

JuliaTeam: JuliaTeam is an enterprise solution that makes it as easy to use and develop Julia packages inside your company as it is in the open source world. The current release of JuliaTeam integrates with your corporate authentication systems and eliminates the headaches of installing and using public Julia packages behind a corporate firewall. JuliaTeam also gives IT and management insight and control over what packages developers are using, helping ensure quality and security.

Upcoming JuliaTeam releases will include these features as well:

• Read and search docs for all internal and external packages in a single place

• Create and manage private package registries

• Publish and test private packages as easily as public ones, making sure new versions work seamlessly with all the other versions of packages that your teams are using

• Benchmark your code to make sure it runs as efficiently as possible and stays fast

• Download a summary of licenses of all the software you depend on

JuliaTeam makes Julia development at your company as easy, effective and fun as open source.

For more information, contact us.

Julia Training: Julia Computing offers online and offline training including Introduction to Julia, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Computing in Julia and customized courses at every level. Registration and course descriptions are available here. Live instructor-led online courses include:

• Introduction to Julia

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  • Register: Jan 28-29; Feb 19-20

• Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia

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  • Register: Feb 4-5; Feb 25-26

• Parallel Computing in Julia

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  • Register: Feb 11-12; Mar 4-5

New Julia Textbook: Introduction to Linear Applied Algebra - Vectors, Matrices and Least Squares by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe uses Julia as the language of instruction and includes a Julia language companion. This is the textbook for EE103 (Stanford University) and EE133A (UCLA). Other Julia textbooks, tutorials and teaching resources are available at JuliaLang.org/Learning.

Julia for Space Mission Planning: Julia Language Ephemeris and Physical Constants Reader for Solar System Bodies was published by Professor Kaela M. Martin (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), undergraduates Julia Mihaylov and Renee Spear (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) and Damon Landau (National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech)). This research “will help interplanetary space mission designers more easily locate the relative positions of planets, moons and small bodies in the solar system at specific times in order to calculate optimum spacecraft trajectories.”

Julia for School Bus Optimization: The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) has selected MIT Sloan Professor Dimitris Bertsimas, Arthur Delarue and Sebastien Martin as Franz Edelman award finalists for their use of Julia and JuMP.jl to make Boston Public Schools bus routes 20% more efficient and save $5 million per year which is being reinvested in schools.

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

Julia and Julia Computing in the News

• Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software

  • MIT News, iProgrammer, Slashdot, Heise, Association for Computing Machinery

• UCSB Engineering Convergence Magazine: Julia Speaks

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: Two Embry-Riddle Undergraduate Students Supporting Interplanetary Research

Julia Blog Posts

• Kubernetes in Julia with Kuber.jl (Tanmay Mohapatra)

• Winter Warm-Up: Toy Models for Heat Exchangers (Mathieu Besançon)

• Koch Snowflakes for the Holidays (Abel Soares Siqueira)

• Package Development in Julia 1.0 Using the REPL (Abel Soares Siqueira)

• Cosmology.jl Now Integrates Unitful.jl (Mosè Giordano)

• Index Funds with Mixed Integer Programming (Robert Schwarz)

• Release Notes for the DataFrames.jl Package v0.15.0 (Bogumił Kamiński)

• A Brief Introduction to Julia’s Object System (Kiran Shila)

Upcoming Julia Events

• Minneapolis/St. Paul: Julia Data Analysis with League of Extraordinary Algorithms at Veritas Technologies Jan 12

• Taipei: MLDM Monday x Julia - Julia Tutorial IV with Taiwan R User Group Jan 14

• Seattle: The Julia Programming Language with SeaLang Jan 16

• Warsaw: Sekrety Systemu Typów w Języku Julia with Bogumił Kamiński and Warszawskie Forum Julia Jan 23

• Cambridge, MA: Julia Guest Lectures with Jameson Nash, Keno Fischer, Jeff Bezanson and Viral Shah (Julia Computing) and Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN) at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Jan 24

• Online: Introduction to Julia with Julia Computing Jan 28-29

• Sydney: Intro to Julia Lang (Designed for AI & ML) + Hands on Coding! with Sydney Alt.Net User Group Jan 29

• Online: Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia with Julia Computing Feb 4-5

• Ghent: Intro to Julia with TensorFlow Belgium Feb 6

• Online: Parallel Computing in Julia with Julia Computing Feb 11-12

• London: Deep Learning in Julia with Julia Computing at Microsoft Reactor Feb 13

• Online: Live YouTube Tutorial on DynamicalSystems.jl with George Datseris Feb 13

• Online: Introduction to Julia with Julia Computing Feb 19-20

• Online: Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia with Julia Computing Feb 25-26

• Spokane: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) with Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Viral Shah (Julia Computing) Feb 25-Mar 1

• Online: Parallel Computing in Julia with Julia Computing Feb 11-12

• Santiago: Third Annual JuMP-dev Workshop Mar 12-14

• Sofia: Webit with Viral Shah (Julia Computing) May 13-15

Recent Julia Events

• Berlin: DataVis Practice with Elena Erdmann (Zeit Online, Journocode) and Data Visualization Berlin Dec 4

• New York: Favorite Julia Features and Demos with Stefan Karpinski (Julia Computing) Dec 5

• Poznan, Poland: PAZUR 31 - Julia vs R + Bookdown with Bogumił Kamiński and Poznan R Users Group (PAZUR) at Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny Poznan Dec 6

• Montreal: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Machine Learning Systems (MLSys) Workshop on Systems for ML and Open Source Software with Julia Computing Dec 7

• Pune, India: Open Discussion: Julia For Machine Learning with Deep Learning Research and Development Dec 9

• Warsaw: Analizy Wielowymiarowe (PCA) i Obliczenia Równoległe w Środowisku Julia with Stacja IT Warszawa Dec 9

• Taipei: MLDM Monday x Julia - Julia Tutorial III with Taiwan R User Group Dec 10

• London: Ring Out 2018 - Julia Practical Development with Malcolm Sherrington (AMIS Consulting), Avik Sengupta (Julia Computing) and London Julia User Group at Microsoft Reactor Dec 10

• Online: Intro to Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Dec 10-11

• Online: Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Dec 17-18

• Ghent: Julia User Meetup with BeNeLux Julia User Group at Ghent University Dec 21

Julia Jobs, Fellowships and Internships

• Invenia Labs is hiring Julia developers for their Cambridge, UK and Winnipeg, Canada offices

• Penn State University’s Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds (CEHW) is looking to hire a Postdoc Researcher and Assistant Research Professor with Julia experience

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 300 Julia jobs currently listed on Indeed.com, including jobs at Accenture, Airbus, Amazon, AstraZeneca, Barnes & Noble, BlackRock, Capital One, Charles River Analytics, Citigroup, Comcast, Cooper Tire & Rubber, Disney, Facebook, Gallup, Genentech, General Electric, Google, Huawei, Johnson & Johnson, Match, McKinsey, NBCUniversal, Nielsen, OKCupid, Oracle, Pandora, Peapod, Pfizer, Raytheon, Zillow, Brown, Emory, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts General Hospital, Penn State, UC Davis, University of Chicago, University of Virginia, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, State of Wisconsin and many more.

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