Productivity and Performance Reconciled: The Julia Story

Speaker: Jan Vitek , Northeastern University

Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

Public: Yes

Location: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtdOqgrTwsGNV_k0Nk6JjLMk-G6GFzTRyk

Event Type: Seminar

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Host: Julian Shun, MIT CSAIL

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Abstract: Julia is a dynamic language that aims to balance programmer productivity with performance. To this end, the Julia designers have made some unusual and bold choices. This talk gives a programming language perspective on Julia as it is today and the challenges that lie ahead.

Bio: Jan Vitek is a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. He holds degrees from the University of Geneva and Victoria. He works on topics related to the design and implementation of programming languages. In the Ovm project, he led the implementation of the first real-time Java virtual machine to be successfully flight-tested. Together with Noble and Potter, he proposed a concept that became known as Ownership Types. He was one of the designers of the Thorn language. He worked on gaining a better understanding of the JavaScript language and is looking at how to support scalable data analysis in R. Prof. Vitek chaired ACM SIGPLAN; he was the Chief Scientist at Fiji Systems and the founding team at H2O.ai, a vice chair of AITO; a vice chair of IFIP WG 2.4, and chaired SPLASH, PLDI, ECOOP, ISMM and LCTES and was program chair of OOPSLA, ESOP, ECOOP, VEE, Coordination, and TOOLS.

Research Areas:
Programming Languages & Software

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Created by Julian J. Shun at Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 11:22 AM.