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Newsletter September 2018 - Julia Computing Newsletter
By JuliaHub | Sep 08, 2018
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Julia 1.0 Released at JuliaCon 2018
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JuliaTeam Launched by Julia Computing
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Julia with Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)
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NumFOCUS Julia Grant for BlockBandedMatrices.jl to Add Support for General Array Backends (GPU)
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Elegant Machine Learning Workshop with Julia and Flux at ODSC London Sept 19-22
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China Takes Worldwide Lead for Julia Downloads
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Julia Community Prizes Awarded at JuliaCon 2018
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DynamicalSystems.jl Wins DSWeb 2018 Software Contest Prize
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Julia Co-Creators Host Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA)
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Advances in Engineering Software - Julia Special Issue
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Julia Computing Training
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Julia Computing Products and Support
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JuliaCon 2018 Videos
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Julia 1.0 Release Takes Tech World by Storm
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Latest Julia Blog Posts
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Upcoming Julia Events
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Recent Julia Events
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Julia Meetup Groups
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Julia Jobs, Fellowships and Internships
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Contact Us
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About Julia and Julia Computing
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Julia 1.0 Released at JuliaCon 2018:
Julia 1.0 Released at JuliaCon 2018:
The much-anticipated release of Julia 1.0 was celebrated at JuliaCon 2018. The release was live-streamed and the video is available on YouTube. The blog post announcing the release is available in English, Spanish and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)..
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JuliaTeam Launched by Julia Computing:
JuliaTeam Launched by Julia Computing:
Julia Computing announced a new product called JuliaTeam during JuliaCon 2018. JuliaTeam is an enterprise solution that works seamlessly behind your organization’s firewall and allows you to develop, install, manage and control public and private packages.
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Julia with Tensor Processing Units (TPUs):
Julia with Tensor Processing Units (TPUs):
Do you have an application or proposal using Julia with Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)? We want to partner with you to support and showcase Julia applications on TPUs. Please contact us for details.
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NumFOCUS Julia Grant to Adapt BlockBandedMatrices.jl to Add Support for General Array Backends (GPU):
NumFOCUS Julia Grant to Adapt BlockBandedMatrices.jl to Add Support for General Array Backends (GPU):
NumFOCUS is providing a $3,000 grant to adapt BlockBandedMatrices.jl to add support for General Array Backends (GPU). The grant will fund the contributions of Mayeul d’Avezac, Senior Research Software Engineer in the Research Computing Service at Imperial College London. Sheehan Olver is the package developer.
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Elegant Machine Learning Workshop with Julia and Flux at Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) London Sept 19-22:
Elegant Machine Learning Workshop with Julia and Flux at Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) London Sept 19-22:
Julia Computing’s Avik Sengupta and Mike Innes will be leading an Elegant Machine Learning Workshop with Julia and Flux at the Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) in London Sept 19-22. Register before Sept 7 for 30% off, and use the code JULIACON when you register for an additional discount.
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China Takes Worldwide Lead for Julia Downloads:
China Takes Worldwide Lead for Julia Downloads:
For the first time ever, China became the number one country for Julia downloads. During the two weeks after Julia’s 1.0 release, China accounted for more than 34% of all Julia downloads, followed by the United States at 22%, Japan at 5%, Germany at 4%, the United Kingdom at 3% and more than 140 other countries.
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Julia Community Prizes Awarded at JuliaCon 2018:
Julia Community Prizes Awarded at JuliaCon 2018:
The 2018 Julia Community Prizes(and a $1,000 award) were awarded to
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Tim Besard, for extending Julia natively to GPUs
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Katharine Hyatt, for enhancing Julia’s test suite and documentation
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Chris Rackauckas, for developing JuliaDiffEq and community engagement
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Elliott Saba, for design and stewardship of Julia’s binary infrastructure
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DynamicalSystems.jl Wins DSWeb 2018 Software Contest Prize:
DynamicalSystems.jl Wins DSWeb 2018 Software Contest Prize:
DynamicalSystems.jl was awarded the DSWeb 2018 Software Contest Prize. DynamicalSystems.jl is a software library for the exploration of chaos and and nonlinear dynamics written entirely in Julia. DSWeb Dynamical Systems Software aims to collect all available software on dynamical software theory. The project was launched 20 years ago at the University of Minnesota Institute for Mathematics and its Applications as part of the Emerging Applications of Dynamical Systems special year.
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Julia Co-Creators Host Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA):
Julia Co-Creators Host Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA):
Julia co-creators Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah and Alan Edelman and core developer Keno Fischer hosted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Wednesday Aug 15. This Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) has more than 41 thousand views and more than 300 comments which can be read here.
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Advances in Engineering Software - Julia Special Issue:
Advances in Engineering Software - Julia Special Issue:
Advances in Engineering Software is producing a Julia special issue, now open for submission. The submission deadline is October 15, 2018.
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Julia Computing Training:
Julia Computing Training:
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Live Online Instructor-Led Julia Training: Click here to register Julia Computing’s Intro to Julia course on Sep 17-18 or Nov 5-6 or for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Julia on Sep 24-25 or Nov 12-13
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Customized Julia Training from Julia Computing: Contact us for scheduling and pricing for customized in-person or online training for you and your organization including courses such as Intro to Julia, Intermediate and Advanced Julia, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Julia, Optimization in Julia and more.
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Julia Computing Products and Support: Julia Computing provides training, support and products for Julia users including:
Julia Computing Products and Support: Julia Computing provides training, support and products for Julia users including:
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JuliaPro for data science professionals and researchers to install and run Julia with more than one hundred carefully curated popular Julia packages on a laptop or desktop computer.
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JuliaTeam for enterprises to work seamlessly behind your firewall, develop private packages as easily as public ones, permission and control Julia package installation, versions and builds across your organization.
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JuliaRun for deploying Julia at scale on dozens, hundreds or thousands of nodes in the public or private cloud, including AWS and Microsoft Azure.
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JuliaFin for financial modeling, algorithmic trading and risk analysis including Bloomberg and Excel integration, Miletus for designing and executing trading strategies and advanced time-series analytics.
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JuliaBox to use Julia in a Jupyter notebook from a Web browser with no download or installation required.
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JuliaCon 2018 Videos:
JuliaCon 2018 Videos:
Hosted by University College London, JuliaCon 2018 was the biggest and best JuliaCon yet. More than 130 JuliaCon 2018 videos are available on YouTube including:
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Unraveling Lymphoma Tumor Microenvironment Interactions with Julia
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EcoJulia - Towards a Framework for Ecological Data Analysis in Julia
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Advocating for Public Policy Change (Bicycle Safety) with Julia
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Performance of Monte Carlo Pricing of Asian Options Using Multi-Threading
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Julia 1.0 Release Takes Tech World by Storm:
Julia 1.0 Release Takes Tech World by Storm:
The release of Julia 1.0 generated a surge of news and blog coverage in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Czech, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Japanese.
English (40)
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Dice: Julia Reaches a Big Milestone. Can It Become a Big Language?
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HPCWire: Downloads of Julia Programming Language Surge in China
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InfoQ: Numerical Computing Dynamic Language Julia 1.0 Released
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InfoWorld: Julia Tutorial: Get Started with the Julia Language
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InsideHPC: Julia 1.0 Release Opens the Doors for a Connected World
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JaxEnter: All Eyes on Julia - The Language’s Growth and Creators’ AMA
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MyBroadband: Julia 1.0 – the Programming Language with the Ease of Python and the Speed of C++
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Quartz: Should Data Scientists Using R and Python Switch Over to Julia?
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Technotification: Julia Programming Language – A True Python Alternative
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Technotification: Top 5 New Programming Languages with High Demand
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Technotification: Is “C’ Programming Language Still Worth – Learning in 2018?
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TechRepublic: Is Julia the Next Big Programming Language? - MIT Thinks So, as Version 1.0 Lands
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TechWorm: New Python Rival? Julia Is Winning Over Developers
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ZDNet: Possible Python Rival? Programming Language Julia Is Winning Over Developers
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ZDNet: Python Now a Top-3 Programming Language as Julia's Rise Speeds Up
CHINESE (15)
Dutch (3)
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Bits & Chips: Julia: de Programmeertaal die Alles Kan (Maar Nergens in Uitblinkt)
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TechZine Nederland: Programmeertaal Julia Wint Aan Populariteit: Haalt Het Python In?
French (3)
German (3)
Japanese (3)
Russian (2)
Danish (1)
Finnish (1)
Hungarian (1)
Norwegian (1)
Spanish (1)
Swedish (1)
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Latest Julia Blog Posts
Latest Julia Blog Posts
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Some State of the Art Packages in Julia v1.0 (Chris Rackauckas)
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GSoC 2018 and Speech Recognition for the Flux Model Zoo: The -Conclusion (Matthew Kelley)
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GSoC 2018: Adding Newer Features and Speeding up Convolutions in Flux (Avik Pal)
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PuMaS.jl: Pharmaceutical Modeling and Simulation Engine (Christopher Rackauckas)
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Union-Splitting: What it Is, and Why You Should Care (Tim Holy)
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Solving Partial Differential Equations with Julia (Christopher Rackauckas)
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Why Numba and Cython Are Not Substitutes for Julia (Christopher Rackauckas)
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GSoC 2018: Reinforcement Learning and Generative Models Using Flux (Tejan Karmali)
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Iterative Methods Done Right - Life’s Too Short to Write For - Loops (Lorenzo Stella)
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DifferentialEquations.jl's Confederated Modular API (Christopher Rackauckas)
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Upcoming Julia Events
Upcoming Julia Events
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Warsaw: Co Nowego w Julia 1.0 Sep 5
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New York: Why I Use Julia for Quantum Physics with Dr. Katharine Hyatt (Flatiron Institute Center for Computational -Quantum Physics) Sep 12
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Zurich: JuliaCon 2018 Gossip Sep 13
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Online: Intro to Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with -Julia Computing Sep 17-18
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London: Julia Workshop at Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) Sep 19-22
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Online: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Sep 24-25
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Online: Intro to Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Nov 5-6
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Online: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Nov 12-13
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Recent Julia Events
Recent Julia Events
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Online: Intro to Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Jul 18-19
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Mumbai: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Julia with Abhijith Chandraprabhu (Julia Computing) at IMS Jul 20-22
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Toronto: North American Conference for Conservation Biology with Viral Shah and Ranjan Anantharaman (Julia Computing) Jul 21-26
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Bangalore: Computational Artificial Intelligence in Julia with Abhijith Chandraprabhu (Julia Computing) at Sir Mokshagundum Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology Jul 25-27
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Cleveland: Let’s Challenge Kaggle’s Santander Value Prediction Competition Jul 28
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London: JuliaCon 2018 at University College London Aug 7-11
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Online: Intro to Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Aug 13-14
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New York: The Journey to Julia 1.0 – the ‘Ju’ in Jupyter with Viral Shah and Jane Herriman (Julia Computing) at JupyterCon Aug 21-24
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New York: An Introduction to Julia in Jupyter with Jane Herriman (Julia Computing) and Sacha Verweij (Stanford University) at JupyterCon Aug 21-24
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Seattle: Julia Seattle - Language Features for Data Science Meetup with Jeff Bezanson (Julia Computing), Valentin Churavy (MIT), Eliot Saba (UW) and Chad Scherrer (Metis) Aug 28
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Bangalore: Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) Aug 30-Sept 2
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Online: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Julia Live Instructor-Led Online Training with Julia Computing Aug 30-31
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Julia Meetup Groups:
Julia Meetup Groups:
There are 34 Julia Meetup groups worldwide with 7,147 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.
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Bangalore: Bangalore Julia User Group (626 members)
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Barcelona: Barcelona Julia Meetup (92 members)
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Berlin: Julia Users Group (129 members)
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Boston: Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN) (653 members)
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Brasilia: Julia Lang BSB (63 members)
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Campinas: Campinas Julia Language Meetup (90 members)
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Chicago: Midwest Julia Users (117 members)
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Cleveland: Greater Cleveland Python/Julia/R Data Science Group (480 members)
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Copenhagen: JuliaCPH (108 members)
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Delhi: Julia Delhi (31 members)
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Detroit: SE-Michigan Julia Language Meetup (29 members)
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Dublin: Dublin Julia Users Group (335 members)
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Istanbul: JuliaStanbul (50 members)
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León, México: León Julia Meetup (50 members)
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London: London Julia User Group (569 members)
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Los Angeles: Southern California Julia Users (136 members)
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Luxembourg: BeNeLux Julia User Group (26 members)
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Mexico City: JuliaLangEs - CDMX (403 members)
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Montréal: Montréal Julia Programming Language Meetup (171 members)
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Nashville: Nashville Conda, R, Julia Users Group (415 members)
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New York: New York City Julia User Group (615 members)
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Orlando: Julia Lang Enthusiasts at Winter Park (6 members)
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Prague: Prague Julia Programming Group (22 members)
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Raleigh: Triangle Julia Users (144 members)
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Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro Julia Meetup (49 members)
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Rosario, Argentina: Julia Rosario (47 members)
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San Francisco: Bay Area Julia Users (642 members)
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São Paulo: Julia Meetup São Paulo (88 members)
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Singapore: Singapore Julia User Group (85 members)
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Sydney: Julia (JuliaLang) Sydney (222 members)
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Vancouver: Vancouver Julia Users (69 members)
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Vienna: Vienna Julia Meetup (138 members)
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Warsaw: Warszawskie Forum Julia (340 members)
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Zurich: Zurich Julia Users Group (90 members)
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Julia Jobs, Fellowships and Internships
Julia Jobs, Fellowships and Internships
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Invenia Labs is hiring Julia developers for their Cambridge, UK and Winnipeg, Canada offices.
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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 institution 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 200 Julia jobs currently listed on Indeed.com, including jobs at Google, Facebook, IBM, KPMG, Ernst & Young, Booz Allen Hamilton, Comcast, Zulily, National Renewable Energy Research Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brown, Princeton, Columbia, Notre Dame, MIT, University of Chicago and many more.
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Contact Us
Contact Us
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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 many other domains. 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, the world’s sixth-largest supercomputer. With more than 1.8 million downloads and +101% annual 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. Julia Computing offers the following products:
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, Oracle, PwC, Uber, and many more.
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