[Crib-list] TODAY: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 | Distinguished Seminar: Intro to Julia with Prof. Alan Edelman

[Shirley Entzminger]

  	T O D A Y . . .


What makes a programming language "fast"?  Find out at MIT SIAM student 
chapter's first distinguished seminar of 2018.  ALAN EDELMAN, PROFESSOR OF 
APPLIED MATHEMATICS, WILL GIVE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE JULIA PROGRAMMING 
LANGUAGE.  Refreshments from Flour will be provided.


 	Date: Tuesday, April 17th (TODAY)

 	When: 4:00 PM

 	 Where: 37-212
 		 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=37>



Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for
numerical computing. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed
parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical
function library. More information can be found at julialang.org.



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