Newsletter August 2020 - JuliaCon 2020 Sets New Participation Record

JuliaCon 2020: Nearly 30,000 Julia users worldwide tuned in to JuliaCon 2020 on YouTube - more than 3x the number who viewed last year - and JuliaCon 2020 registrants represent 115 different countries. We extend our gratitude and appreciation to all those who made JuliaCon 2020 the biggest and best JuliaCon ever - participants, presenters, organizers, committee members, sponsors, volunteers, mentors and the entire Julia community. If you missed any JuliaCon 2020 presentations, they are now available online.

JuliaCon 2020 Wrap-Up Blog Posts

• JuliaCon 2020 Wrap-Up (JuliaCon Organizing Committee)

• JuliaCon 2020 Was Awesome! (Tom Kwong)

• JuliaCon2020: Julia Is Production Ready! (Bogumił Kamiński)

JuliaTeam and JuliaRun Presentation: If you missed Dr. Matt Bauman’s demonstration of JuliaHub’s upcoming compute capabilities during JuliaCon, you can find it online, along with nearly 20 other free Julia Computing Webinars and microtrainings.

Pumas-AI: Pumas-AI is a new pharmaceutical startup company that launched this week. The launch event has been watched by hundreds of viewers around the globe. Pumas-AI uses artificial intelligence in Julia to accelerate drug development and personalize patient care. For more information, visit Pumas-AI.

JuliaHub Launch: Julia Computing is pleased to announce the launch of JuliaHub’s compute capabilities. JuliaHub provides a seamless experience for Julia users to manage their packages, find documentation, make open source contributions and run large compute-intensive workloads. Sign up to receive notification when cloud computing is available via JuliaHub, and click here to register for a demonstration of JuliaHub’s new cloud computing capabilities.

Converting from Proprietary Software to Julia: Are you looking to leverage Julia’s superior speed and ease of use, but limited due to legacy software and code? Julia Computing and our partners can help accelerate replacing your existing proprietary applications, improve performance, reduce development time, augment or replace existing systems and provide an extended trusted team to deliver Julia solutions. Leverage experienced resources from Julia Computing and our partners to get your team up and running quickly. For more information, please contact us at info@juliacomputing.com.

Julia Computing Finance Webinar and JuliaHub Product Demo: Julia Computing’s Dr. Matt Bauman will present a free Webinar on Accelerating Finance with Julia and a JuliaHub product demonstration. Use the links below to register.

Julia Computing Enterprise Products

• JuliaHub: JuliaHub from Julia Computing provides a seamless experience for Julia users to manage their packages, find documentation, make open source contributions and run large compute-intensive workloads. Click here for more information.

• JuliaRun: JuliaRun from Julia Computing helps you scale and deploy Julia using high performance computing (HPC) resources, including large parallel simulations and analyses in the cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. 

• JuliaSure: JuliaSure from Julia Computing provides full service development support, production support and indemnification for companies using Julia. Subscriptions are USD 99 per month. Click here to subscribe.

• JuliaTeam: JuliaTeam from Julia Computing lets your entire enterprise work together using Julia. Collaborate, develop and manage private and public packages across your organization, manage open source licenses and benefit from continuous integration, deployment, security, indemnity and enterprise governance. 

• Pumas: Pumas from Julia Computing and Pumas.ai is a comprehensive platform for pharmaceutical modeling and simulation, providing a single tool for the entire drug development pipeline. Click here for more information.

Julia Computing Is Coming to Your Favorite Online Conferences****: Julia Computing is participating in several upcoming online conferences. Please join our Julia talks and workshops or connect with us.

• AI Summit September 2-3

• ODSC Europe September 17-19

• American Modelica September 22-24

• American Conference on Pharmacometrics October 4-7

Julia 1.5 Release: Julia 1.5 includes exciting new features such as struct layout and allocation optimizations, multithreading API stabilization and improvements and much more. More information is available here.

Julia Community Prizes: The winners of the 2020 Julia Community Prizes are Huda Nassar, Mosè Giordano and Chris Elron. Congratulations!

Julia User & Developer Survey 2020: The second annual Julia User & Developer Survey was presented during JuliaCon. Results are available here.

Julia and Julia Computing in the News

• ZDNet: Programming Language Julia Version 1.5 Is Out: Lots of New Features, Better Performance

• Analytics India: JuliaCon 2020 Is Live and Virtual

• Analytics India: Julia and PyCaret Latest Versions

• Daily Excelsior: Data Science – the New Paradigm of Technology

• Enterprise Talk: Julia Version 1.5 Launched

• Analytics India: Julia v1.5 Released: Brings Lots of New Features and Better Performance

• Dev Class: Julia 1.5 Tackles Latency and Heap Allocations Before Tossing in Another LTS Release

• Dev Class: Bye-Bye Juno, Hello Julia for VS Code – IDE Shifts Form, Reaches 1.0

• PC World: Learn a New Programming Language with this $15 Humble Bundle

• SD Times: Julia 1.5 Released

• Heise: Programmiersprache: Julia 1.5 Stabilisiert die Multithreading-API

• Analytics Insight: What Will Be the Best Language for Data Science - Julia or Python?

• I Programmer: Julia 1.5 Improves Struct Layout Support

Julia Blog Posts

• SciML Ecosystem Update: SDE Adjoints, FFORD Layers, and Jump Diffusion (Chris Rackauckas)

• New Package: ChemEquations.jl (Zlatan Vasović)

• Grokking Deep Learning with Julia (Deepak Suresh)

• Julia 1.5 Highlights (Jeff Bezanson & Stefan Karpinski)

• JuliaCon 2020 Was Awesome! (Tom Kwong)

• JuliaCon 2020 Wrap-up (JuliaCon Organizing Committee)

• JuliaCon2020: Julia Is Production Ready! (Bogumił Kamiński)

• JuliaCon2020: Conclusions for DataFrames.jl (Bogumił Kamiński)

• DataFrames.jl @ JuliaCon2020 (Bogumił Kamiński)

• How Is => Used in DataFrames.jl? (Bogumił Kamiński)

• First Steps with Agent Based Modeling in the Julia Language (Bogumił Kamiński)

• The Beginning of Javis.jl (Ole Kröger)

• Visualizing Pi, Tau and Prime Numbers (Ole Kröger)

Upcoming Julia Online Events

• Online Meetup: Julia Meetup with Boulder Data Science, Machine Learning and AI August 13

• Online Meetup: JuliaCon Afterthought: What Have You Learned from JuliaCon? with Stephan Sahm and Julia User Group Munich August 13

• Virtual Conference: Julia Chinese Community 2020 Summer Conference (Julia中文社区2020年夏季会议) August 18-24

• Online Meetup: Post-JuliaCon Gathering with Michael Mallari and Julia5280 August 20

• Online Meetup: Neural Ordinary Differential Equations with Konstantinos Michailidis, Nicolas Holland and Julia User Group Freiburg August 25

• Online Meetup: JuliaConnectoR with Guido Möser and Wiesbaden R User Group August 26

• Webinar: Going on a Bull Run: Accelerating Finance with Julia with Matt Bauman (Julia Computing) August 27

• Online Meetup: Fall in Love with Julia - Learning Deep Learning in Julia 101 with Julia User Group Munich September 1

• Virtual Conference: Virtual AI Summit with Julia Computing September 2-3

• Product Demonstration: JuliaHub - Introducing Single Click Scaling and Deployment in the Cloud with Matt Bauman (Julia Computing) September 3

• Online Meetup: Post-Labor Day / Back-to-School with Michael Mallari and Julia5280 September 10

• Virtual Conference: ODSC Europe with Julia Computing September 17-19

• Virtual Conference: American Modelica with Viral Shah (Julia Computing) September 22-24

• Virtual Conference: American Conference on Pharmacometrics with Julia Computing October 4-7

Recent Julia Online Events

• Webinar: Feel the Power! Julia for Energy Webinar with Matt Bauman (Julia Computing) July 16

• Virtual Conference: BuzzConf with Viral Shah (Julia Computing) July 27-31

• Online Demonstration: JuliaTeam and JuliaRun with Julia Computing July 29-31

• Virtual Conference: JuliaCon 2020 with Julia Computing July 29-31 (Workshops July 23-28)

• Virtual Booth: JuliaCon Virtual Booth with Julia Computing July 29-31

• Online Launch: Pumas-AI Launch August 11

Julia Jobs, Fellowships and Internships

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 hundreds of Julia jobs currently listed on Indeed.com. Click here to apply.

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• Purchase or obtain license information for Julia Computing products such as JuliaSure, JuliaTeam, JuliaRun or Pumas

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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. Julia has been downloaded by users at more than 10,000 companies and is used at more than 1,500 universities. Julia co-creators are the winners of the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software and the 2019 Sidney Fernbach Award. 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.

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.