Newsletter November 2018 - Google Cloud TPUs Now Speak Julia

Did you know that Google Cloud TPUs Now Speak Julia?

Google.ai lead Jeff Dean took note:

More information is available in Automatic Full Compilation of Julia Programs and ML Models to Cloud TPUs by Julia Computing co-founder and CTO Keno Fischer and Senior Research Engineer Elliot Saba.

In other Julia news:

Julia Computing is participating in upcoming Julia meetups including:

• Cambridge, MA: Julia SPLASH Meetup with Viral Shah and Jameson Nash (Julia Computing), Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Nov 7

• London: Julia and Big Data - Aviva, Spark, Hadoop, Hive with Malcolm Sherrington (AMIS Consulting), Avik Sengupta (Julia Computing) and London Julia User Group at Microsoft Reactor Nov 12

• Budapest: Bemutatjuk a Juliát with Avik Sengupta (Julia Computing) and Budapest Julia User Group at Cursor Insight Nov 21

For a more complete up-to-date list of events featuring Julia, please visit https://juliacomputing.com/events/

Julia Computing announced a Call for Proposals for Diversity and Inclusion grants up to $4,000, generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. If you have an idea to increase diversity and inclusion in the Julia community, we want to hear from you.

The new JuliaPro has been completely re-architected with faster, easier downloads and fewer bugs and glitches. Click here to learn more.

JuliaBox also benefited from a major upgrade. Click here to learn how you can get more power, memory, speed, disk space, RAM, priority support, an autograder for classes and more for as little as $7 per month for academic users or $14 per month for non-academic users.

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.

Julia training is available online and offline from Julia Computing, 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:

• Nov 13-14: Intro to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia

• Dec 10-11: Intro to Julia

• Dec 17-18: Intro to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia

Julia and Julia Computing in the News

• Analytics India: Julia Users Can Now Rejoice, Google Cloud Has Powerful Capabilities to Support the Language

• Analytics India: 6 Tech Giants Who Are Building Robust AI Developer Ecosystems in India

• Synced: Google Cloud TPUs Now Speak Julia

• Arxiv: Automatic Full Compilation of Julia Programs and ML Models to Cloud TPUs

• Packt: Julia for Machine Learning. Will the New Language Pick Up Pace?

• Nature: Why Jupyter Is Data Scientists’ Computational Notebook of Choice

• EconomicTimes: All About 'Old' IT Skills: Why Indian Techies Don't Need to Panic Just Yet

• Datanami: Jane Herriman, Director of Diversity and Outreach for Julia Computing, Joins NumFOCUS Board of Directors

• MarkTechPost: Programming Languages for Machine Learning: Julia

• Times of India: India Runs on Red Hat, the Company IBM Is Buying for $34 Billion

• TechRepublic: 急成長中のプログラミング言語「Julia」–MIT教授に聞く人気の理由と今後の展開

• Technotification: 10 Easy Programming Languages To Learn For Beginners

• ZDNet: Apache Spark Creators Set Out to Standardize Distributed Machine Learning Training, Execution, and Deployment

• HPCWire: The Linux Foundation Awards 31 Open Source Training Scholarships

• Tactical Business: Numerical Analysis Software Used Extensively in Fields such as Computing and Engineering Pushes Growth

• Irish Tech News: The Linux Foundation Announces 31 Open Source Training Scholarship Awardees

• TechSina: 他创造了集众多编程语言优势于一身的Julia

• Root: Proč Incanter Vznikl a z Jakého Důvodu By Nás Mohl Zajímat?

• Forbes: Ready For A Career Makeover? These Skills Will Land You A New Collar Job

• MarkTechPost: Do You Want to Become a Machine Learning Engineer?

Julia Blog Posts

• Call for Proposals to Increase Diversity and Inclusion Within the Julia Community (Jane Herriman)

• The New JuliaPro (Julia Computing)

• Random Noise (Cormullion)

• What Is the Most Uniquely Biodiverse Place in Canada? (Armchair Ecology)

• Implement Your Own Automatic Differentiation with Julia in ONE Day (Roger Luo)

• An Introduction to GPU Programming in Julia (Simon Danisch)

• How Fast Is R with FastR? (Simon Danisch)

• Creating a Deep Neural Network Model to Learn Handwritten Digits Using Julia (Mike Gold)

Upcoming Julia Events

• Warsaw: Wprowadzenie do Metaprogramowania w Języku Julia with Bogumił Kamiński and Przemysław Szufel (Warsaw School of Economics) and Warszawskie Forum Julia Nov 7

• Cambridge, MA: Julia SPLASH Meetup with Viral Shah and Jameson Nash (Julia Computing), Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Nov 7

• Zurich: Terminal Magic and Magic Macros with Simon Schoelly at ETH Zurich Nov 8

• Spokane: The ABCs of Julia with Jim Davidson and PyData Spokane at Startup Spokane Central Nov 8

• Sydney: How to Use Julia for Optimization and Power Systems Research with Frederik Geth (CSIRO Energy Newcastle) at Microsoft Reactor Nov 9

• London: Julia and Big Data - Aviva, Spark, Hadoop, Hive with Malcolm Sherrington (AMIS Consulting), Avik Sengupta (Julia Computing) and London Julia User Group at Microsoft Reactor Nov 12

• Taipei: MLDM Monday x Julia - Julia Tutorial II with Taiwan R User Group Nov 12

• Online: Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Nov 12-13

• Palm Beach, FL: Introduction To Julia Programming For Data Science with Palm Beach Data Science at Palm Beach Tech Space Nov 15

• Tokyo: Julia Meetup with Jeff Bezanson (Julia Computing) and Julia Tokyo Nov 16

• Budapest: Bemutatjuk a Juliát with Avik Sengupta (Julia Computing) and Budapest Julia User Group at Cursor Insight Nov 21

• Budapest: XProf and Julia with Budapest Erlang User Group at Erlang Solutions Nov 26

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

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

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

• 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

Recent Julia Events

• <span id="_gjdgxs" class="anchor"></span>Irvine: Opioid West Hackathon with Simon Byrne and Chris Rackauckas (Julia Computing) and Vijay Ivaturi (University of Maryland) Oct 14-15

• <span id="_g40zmg4scr8n" class="anchor"></span>Taipei: MLDM Monday x Julia - Julia Tutorial with Taiwan R User Group MLDM Monday Oct 15

• Los Angeles: An Introduction to Julia at PyData 2018 with Jane Herriman (Julia Computing) Oct 21-23

• Prague: Introducing Julia - Let’s Find Out If She Is Really Better than R and Python with Prague Julia Programming Group Oct 23

• Bangalore: Deep Learning in Julia Language with Codeseeker Oct 27

• Cambridge, MA: Introduction to Julia Workshop with Harvard Big Data Club at Harvard University Oct 30

• San Francisco: An Introduction to Julia for Machine Learning at Open Data Science Conference West (ODSC West) with Jane Herriman (Julia Computing) Oct 31-Nov 3

• Online: Intro to Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Nov 5-6

• Atlanta: Come Hear Eldon Talk About Julia with Atlanta Functional Programming Meetup Nov 6

Julia Meetup Groups: There are 37 Julia Meetup groups worldwide with 8,584 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.

• Bangalore: Bangalore Julia User Group (626 members)

• Barcelona: Barcelona Julia Meetup (97 members)

• Berlin: Julia Users Group (129 members)

• Boston: Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN) (724 members)

• Brasilia: Julia Lang BSB (72 members)

• Budapest: Budapest Julia User Group (54 members)

• Campinas: Campinas Julia Language Meetup (92 members)

• Chicago: Midwest Julia Users (119 members)

• Cleveland: Greater Cleveland Python/Julia/R Data Science Group (522 members)

• Copenhagen: JuliaCPH (108 members)

• Delhi: Julia Delhi (31 members)

• Detroit: SE-Michigan Julia Language Meetup (30 members)

• Dublin: Dublin Julia Users Group (351 members)

• Istanbul: JuliaStanbul (50 members)

• León, México: León Julia Meetup (50 members)

• Lima: Julia Data Science Lima (90 members)

• London: London Julia User Group (613 members)

• Los Angeles: Southern California Julia Users (145 members)

• Luxembourg: BeNeLux Julia User Group (50 members)

• Mexico City: JuliaLangEs - CDMX (411 members)

• Montréal: Montréal Julia Programming Language Meetup (173 members)

• Nashville: Nashville Conda, R, Julia Users Group (418 members)

• New York: New York City Julia User Group (646 members)

• Orlando: Julia Lang Enthusiasts at Winter Park (6 members)

• Prague: Prague Julia Programming Group (113 members)

• Raleigh: Triangle Julia Users (145 members)

• Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro Julia Meetup (50 members)

• Rosario, Argentina: Julia Rosario (50 members)

• San Francisco: Bay Area Julia Users (650 members)

• São Paulo: Julia Meetup São Paulo (90 members)

• Singapore: Singapore Julia User Group (89 members)

• Sydney: Julia (JuliaLang) Sydney (234 members)

• Tokyo: JuliaTokyo (569 members)

• Vancouver: Vancouver Julia Users (69 members)

• Vienna: Vienna Julia Meetup (140 members)

• Warsaw: Warszawskie Forum Julia (379 members)

• Zurich: Zurich Julia Users Group (99 members)

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 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, JuliaRun, JuliaFin or JuliaBox

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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.