Newsletter October 2018 - JuliaPro 1.0.1.1, Bossie Award and Julia on NPR

JuliaPro 1.0.1.1, Bossie Award and Julia on NPR

Julia 1.0.1 has been released. The latest update includes bug fixes, performance improvements and documentation updates.

JuliaPro and JuliaBox are now available with Julia 1.0.1. Download JuliaPro or register and sign-in to JuliaBox today to experience the latest and greatest Julia.

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 5-6: Intro to Julia

• 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 is available with Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Please contact us if you have an application or proposal using Julia with TPUs.

Julia Computing'sJane Herriman has been appointed to the Board of Directors of NumFOCUS. Jane is Julia Computing's Director of Diversity and Outreach, PhD candidate in Materials Science at Caltech and will soon rejoin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Lawrence Graduate Scholar. NumFOCUS is a non-profit organization that promotes sustainable software, open code development and reproducible scientific research. NumFOCUS supports Jupyter, which was named for Julia, Python and R.

Julia Computing Chief Scientist Alan Edelman discussed the launch of Julia 1.0 on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. The segment is available here.

Julia has been awarded the Best of Open Source Software (Bossie) Award by InfoWorld.

Julia Computing'sJane Herriman will present An Introduction to Julia for Machine Learning at ODSC West in San Francisco Oct 31-Nov 3.

Advances in Engineering Software is producing a Julia special issue which is now open for submission. The submission deadline is October 15, 2018.

The Julia Proposed Release Process and Schedule from Stefan Karpinski proposes a plan for future Julia releases and updates.

Julia and Julia Computing in the News

• TechRepublic: Why Is Programming Language Julia Growing So Fast and Where Is it Going Next?

• HPCWire: Julia Computing's Jane Herriman Joins NumFOCUS Board of Directors

• TechTarget: Julia 1.0 Brings API Stability to Machine Learning Language

• Factor Daily: Meet Julia, the Grown Up Version

• TechWorm: Julia Programming Language for Beginners

• Edgy Labs: Why Julia Is the Programming Language Set to Dominate Our Future

• Your Story: From Making Intuitive Music to Faster Drug Discovery - How Accelerating AI-Led Innovation Is Impacting the Real World

• InfoWorld: InfoWorld Recognizes Open Source Software Technologies Driving Business Innovation

• Bottom Line: Julia – A Solution to the Two Language Problem

Julia Blog Posts

• Tutorial: How to Get Started with Julia 1.0's Package Manager (Jane Herriman)

• A Portrait of JuliaCon 2018 (Jane Herriman)

• The Julia Community Prizes 2018 (Avik Sengupta)

• 10 Reasons Why You Should Learn Julia (Gabriel Gauci Maistre)

• The Julia Language Challenge (Simon Danisch)

• A Comparison of Programming Languages in Economics: An Update (S. Borağan Aruoba and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde)

• Parallel Programming with Julia using MPI (Claudio Bellei)

• Dispatch, Traits and Metaprogramming Over Reflection

• Intro to Sparse Data and Embeddings (Sören Dobberschütz)

• Conversion of Movie Review Data to One-Hot Encoding (Sören Dobberschütz)

• A Telegram Bot in Julia (Akako L)

• How to Make Package and Set Up Travis for Julia 1.0 (Akako L)

• Data Extraction from TFrecord-files (Sören Dobberschütz)

• Julia for Probabilistic Metaprogramming (Chad Scherrer)

• Classifying Handwritten Digits with Neural Networks (Sören Dobberschütz)

• Improving Neural Net Performance (Sören Dobberschütz)

• Intro to Neural Nets (Sören Dobberschütz)

• Logistic Regression (Sören Dobberschütz)

• Changes for DynamicHMC.jl and Related Packages (Tamás Papp)

Upcoming Julia Events

• Irvine: Opioid West Hackathon with Simon Byrne and Chris Rackauckas (Julia Computing) and Vijay Ivaturi (University of Maryland) Oct 14-15

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

Recent Julia Events

• Warsaw: Co Nowego w Julia 1.0 Sep 5

• New York: Why I Use Julia for Quantum Physics with Katharine Hyatt (Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Quantum Physics) Sep 12

• Zurich: JuliaCon 2018 Gossip Sep 13

• Austin: BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)-like Library Instantiation Software (BLIS) Retreat at University of Texas - Austin Sep 17-18 with Jane Herriman (Julia Computing) and Sacha Verweij (Stanford University)

• Online: Intro to Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Sep 17-18

• Cambridge, MA: Multi-Physics Modeling with Chris Laughman (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs) and Tensor Network Library with Ying Jer Kao (National Taiwan University) at MIT Stata Center Sep 19

• London: Julia Workshop at Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) Sep 19-22

• Orlando: Association for Computing Machinery Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing with Jane Herriman (Julia Computing) Sep 19-22

• New York: NumFOCUS Project Forum with Jane Herriman and Stefan Karpinski (Julia Computing) Sept 24-25

• Online: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Sep 24-25

• Houston: Grace Hopper Celebration with Jane Herriman (Julia Computing) Sept 26-28

• Cairo: Introduction to Julia and Why It Matters for Machine Learning at Zewail City of Science and Technology with Mohammed El-Beltagy (Cairo University, Optomatica, Racefox) and Viral Shah (Julia Computing) Oct 2

• Cairo: Introduction to Julia and Why It Matters for Machine Learning at Nile University with Mohammed El-Beltagy (Cairo University, Optomatica, Racefox) and Viral Shah (Julia Computing) Oct 3

• Cambridge, MA: Hacktoberbest Hack Night with Jameson Nash (Julia Computing) and Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN) at MIT Stata Center Oct 4

• Cleveland: Let's Challenge Kaggle's Google Customer Revenue Prediction Competition with Greater Cleveland Python/Julia/R Data Science Group Oct 6

• London: October Hackfest with London Julia User Group at Microsoft Reactor Oct 8

• Pleasanton, CA: Julia - the J in Jupyter - A Grown-Up Language for Data Science with Machine Learning - Theory and Application Oct 10

Julia Meetup Groups: There are 35 Julia Meetup groups worldwide with 7,428 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 (95 members)

• Berlin: Julia Users Group (129 members)

• Boston: Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN) (698 members)

• Brasilia: Julia Lang BSB (67 members)

• Campinas: Campinas Julia Language Meetup (92 members)

• Chicago: Midwest Julia Users (120 members)

• Cleveland: Greater Cleveland Python/Julia/R Data Science Group (515 members)

• Copenhagen: JuliaCPH (106 members)

• Delhi: Julia Delhi (31 members)

• Detroit: SE-Michigan Julia Language Meetup (28 members)

• Dublin: Dublin Julia Users Group (352 members)

• Istanbul: JuliaStanbul (50 members)

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

• Lima: Julia Data Science Lima (56 members)

• London: London Julia User Group (580 members)

• Los Angeles: Southern California Julia Users (142 members)

• Luxembourg: BeNeLux Julia User Group (45 members)

• Mexico City: JuliaLangEs - CDMX (404 members)

• Montréal: Montréal Julia Programming Language Meetup (172 members)

• Nashville: Nashville Conda, R, Julia Users Group (419 members)

• New York: New York City Julia User Group (641 members)

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

• Prague: Prague Julia Programming Group (53 members)

• Raleigh: Triangle Julia Users (143 members)

• Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro Julia Meetup (49 members)

• Rosario, Argentina: Julia Rosario (50 members)

• San Francisco: Bay Area Julia Users (644 members)

• São Paulo: Julia Meetup São Paulo (89 members)

• Singapore: Singapore Julia User Group (88 members)

• Sydney: Julia (JuliaLang) Sydney (224 members)

• Vancouver: Vancouver Julia Users (69 members)

• Vienna: Vienna Julia Meetup (141 members)

• Warsaw: Warszawskie Forum Julia (359 members)

• Zurich: Zurich Julia Users Group (95 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 AstrophysicsCenter 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.