[Crib-list] PLSE Seminar: 12/10/18, Jeff Bezanson and Alan Edelman: Humans Compose when Software Does (fwd)

[Shirley Entzminger]

          Programming Languages (PL), Software Engineering (SE) Seminar

                                  (PLSE Seminar)




DATE:           Monday, December 10, 2018

LOCATION:       Building 32, Room D463 (Star)

TIME:           4:00 PM to 5:00 PM



SPEAKERS:       Jeff Bezanson (Julia Computing) and Alan Edelman (MIT)


TITLE:          Humans Compose when Software Does


ABSTRACT:


In the early days of 18.337/6.338, we gave a simple assignment. Part 1:
Download any parallel program and run it.  Part 2: Download two parallel
programs and have them compose.  Smart hard-working students failed
miserably with Part 2.

Fast forward to 2018, with the formation of MIT's College of Computing, and
some of us dream that Part 1: Researchers at MIT will continue excellent
research and Part 2: Researchers across disciplines can compose.

We have found that the Julia language, through its composable abstractions,
multiple dispatch, and expressive typing is accelerating the formation of
bridges at MIT.  As physical bridges may be made from steel and provide
infrastructure for many to cross, it seems Julia's language elements are
the medium that allow people to connect to solve hard problems.

In this talk we will give a quick introduction to Julia, and then speak in
depth about some of Julia's special features.

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