Introduction to Julia

Introduction to Julia

Presenter: Joel Mason

Bio: PhD student at UNSW interested in Machine/Deep/Reinforcement Learning, Interactive Data Visualisation, AI, and maintainer/contributor to various Julia packages as https://github.com/JobJob

Abstract: The Julia programming language ( https://julialang.org/ ) is a high level language specialised for numerical computing, originally developed at MIT, that was first publicly released in 2012. Julia code looks a bit like Python or Matlab, but is designed from the ground up with a focus on high performance (approaching that of C). This talk will give an introduction to Julia, and discuss features of the language that make it well suited for machine learning, data science, and scientific computing in general. It will also discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with a relatively young language, with a smaller software library ecosystem/open source community than the likes of R, Python/NumPy/SciPy, and Matlab.