Newsletter March 2019 - Julia Co-Creators Receive James H. Wilkinson Prize at SIAM CSE19

Julia Co-Creators Receive James H. Wilkinson Prize: Julia co-creators Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Viral Shah Received the James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19). Jeff, Stefan and Viral delivered a talk titled ‘Solving the Two Language Problem in Numerical Computing’.

JuliaTeam Vision: Stefan Karpinski published a blog post about Julia Computing’s vision for 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. 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.

JuliaDB: JuliaDB is a Julia Computing database product designed for big data. Features include just-in-time compilation, parallel computing, flexible type storage, fast UDFs and a fast CSV parser. JuliaDB in Julia 1.0 is a new blog post from Julia Computing’s Josh Day describing some of these features.

The Julia Project and Its Entities: Stefan Karpinski published a blog post about Julia and some of the entities that support Julia.

JuliaAcademy: Julia Computing’s training offerings continue to expand. JuliaAcademy is the Julia Computing training platform for 3 types of learning: self-directed, online instructor-led and in-person onsite training.

JuliaAcademy courses include: Intro to Julia, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia, Parallel Computing in Julia, Deep Learning with Flux, Optimization with JuMP and Machine Learning with Knet.

JuliaAcademy provides:

1. Self-directed training - all online, learn at your own pace

2. Instructor-led online training - live two-day courses taught by Julia Computing instructors

3. In-person training - contact us at info@juliacomputing.com to schedule customized in-person training for your organization

Register now for instructor-led online courses:

• Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia

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Register now for the March 7-8 course

• Introduction to Julia

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Register now for the March 25-26 course

• Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia

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Register now for the April 1-2 course

Growing a Compiler - Getting to Machine Learning from a General Purpose Compiler: Julia Computing’s Keno Fischer and Jameson Nash presented “Growing a Compiler - Getting to Machine Learning from a General Purpose Compiler” at the Compilers for Machine Learning (C4ML) workshop at the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2019) and published a blog post on the same topic.

JuliaCon 2019: JuliaCon 2019 will be held July 22-26 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Call for Proposals and Early Bird Ticket Sales are open now.

• JuliaCon is looking for sponsors and university partners in diversity. Sponsorship is available at several levels and benefits include prominent mention and logo placement at JuliaCon and in JuliaCon conference materials and Website, an opportunity to present to JuliaCon participants, presentation space during the conference and registration for JuliaCon attendees. Past JuliaCon sponsors include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Microsoft, Maven, Invenia, Julia Computing, Capital One, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Gambit Research, Tangent Works, Amazon, Alan Turing Institute, Jeffrey Sarnoff, EVN and Conning.

• Financial assistance for registration and travel is available for those who require assistance in order to attend if they are Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students, accepted speakers or attendees who increase the diversity of the Julia community. Financial assistance is limited, so please apply now if you are eligible and if you require financial assistance to attend JuliaCon.

JuMP-dev Annual Workshop: The third annual JuMP-dev workshop takes place March 12-14 in Santiago, Chile.

Geostatistics with GeoStats.jl: The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) annual conference Aug 10-16 in State College, PA will feature a short course on Geostatistics with GeoStats.jl led by Júlio Hoffimann Mendes (IBM Research).

ODSC East: ODSC East is the world’s leading applied data science conference, with 350+ hours of expert-led, hands-on talks and workshops on machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, machine vision, data visualization and more. Network with 7,000+ peers, demo new platforms from top companies and boost your career, April 30 to May 3, in Boston. Use code ODSC_JuliaCon to sign up.

Julia and Julia Computing in the News

• TechRepublic: Julia's Big Plan to Break into Enterprise: What's Next for the Fast-Growing Programming Language

• JaxEnter: Julia Takes the Stage while PHP Continues its Five-Year Slump

• YourStory: Eye on Success: AI and Business Impact through Collaborative Ecosystems for Startups

• PacktPub: Creating a Basic Julia Project for Loading and Saving Data [Tutorial]

• PackPub: How to Make Machine Learning Based Recommendations Using Julia [Tutorial]

• Analytics India: Top 5 Online Resources To Learn Jupyter Notebook

• Heise: JuliaTeam verspricht Unternehmen mehr Kontrolle beim Programmieren mit Julia

• ZDNet Japan: プログラミング言語の「Julia」、1年の成長を示す数字が明らかに

• The Register: Website Programming? Pffft, So 2011. Python's Main Squeeze Is now Data Science, Apparently

• ZDNet: The Rise of Julia, Brexit Woes, Tech Investment, and Digital Transformation

• Technotification: 5 Best Easy-To-Learn New Programming Languages

Julia Blog Posts

• JuliaTeam Vision (Stefan Karpinski)

• JuliaDB in Julia 1.0 (Josh Day)

• Growing a Compiler - Getting to Machine Learning from a General Purpose Compiler (Keno Fischer and Jameson Nash)

• The Julia Project and Its Entities (Stefan Karpinski)

• GSoC 2018 - Parallel Implementations of Graph Analysis Algorithms (Soham Tamba)

• Multiple Dispatch - an Example for Mathematical Optimizers (Mathieu Besançon)

• Real-World Example for Julia Multidispatch (Where Using Python Is a Pain) (Akako L)

• Julia Do-Block vs Python With Statement (Mosè Giordano)

• Using Julia for Data Science and Using Julia for Data Science (Part 02) (Cleyton Farias)

• Announcing Electron Display.jl (David Anthoff)

Upcoming Julia Events

• Cambridge, MA: DiffEqBiological and DiffEqJump with Dr. Samuel Isaacson and Cambridge Area Julia User Network (CAJUN) March 7

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

• Washington DC: American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) Annual Meeting with Viral Shah (Julia Computing) March 13-16

• Palo Alto: Algorithms for Optimization in Julia with Tim Wheeler and NumFOCUS with Jane Herriman at BNY Mellon Innovation Center March 13

• Warsaw: Distributed Computing and Spatial Data Analysis in Julia with Przemysław Szufel, Bogumił Kamiński and Warszawskie Forum Julia March 14

• Cambridge, MA: Julia Programming - Humans Compose When Software Does with Alan Edelman (Julia Computing) March 28

• Brussels: Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) Developers Meeting with Jameson Nash (Julia Computing) April 8-9

• Boston: Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) April 30-May 3

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

• Hong Kong: RISE Conference with Viral Shah (Julia Computing) July 8-11

• London: European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) Curry On July 15-19

• Baltimore: JuliaCon 2019 July 22-26

Recent Julia Events

• 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

• Washington DC: Getting to Machine Learning from a General Purpose Compiler at the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2019) Compilers for Machine Learning Workshop (C4ML) with Keno Fischer and Jameson Nash (Julia Computing) Feb 17

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

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

• Online: Parallel Computing in Julia with Julia Computing Mar 4-5

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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