Julia at the frontier: fast, flexible, fun

speaker: Alan Edelman and Viral Shah, MIT event: DataScienceSG ** usage specification language for airborne collisions avoidance (ACAS-X) voxel8 uses julia for 3d printing classes: http://julialang.org/teaching ** fast dynamic language with speed of C generic functions with multiple methods jit compiles to native code via llvm ** flexible Andreas Novack’s cross cutting library generic code that works on different data types ** fun jupyter notebook to study ECG models Lego mindstorms class project ** distributed computation –machinefile ** GPU computation with ArrayFire ** Cxx.jl provides FFI to C++