DSI | Julia, The Power of Language by Alan Edelman

Abstract: The Julia language has become well known for its combination of performance and ease-of-use. We argue the real power of language is the ability to have impact. In this talk we will assume no or little familiarity with the Julia language, and describe why Julia is not just another language for everyday and high performance computing. We argue that the real power of a language is the ability to collaborate and have impact. We will discuss the application of Julia to domains like climate science, materials design, simulations that require optimization, differential equations, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification and highlight why we say "humans compose when software composes."

Bio: Professor Edelman considers himself to be a pure mathematician and an applied computer scientist. He works in the areas of numerical linear algebra, Random Matrix theory, high performance computing systems, networks, software, and algorithms. He has won many prizes for his work including the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize, the Householder prize, the Sidney Fernbach award, and Babbage Prize. He was the founder of Interactive Supercomputing, a company acquired by Microsoft in its fifth year employing nearly 50 people and is a co-creator of Julia. He is an elected fellow of ACM, AMS, IEEE, and SIAM. He believes above all that math and computing go together and both should be fun.

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