Forbes Names Julia Computing Co-Founder Keno Fischer to ‘30 Under 30’ List

Cambridge, MA – Forbes has named Julia Computing Co-Founder and
Chief Technology Officer Keno
Fischer
to its prestigious ‘30 Under 30’ list of young leaders in enterprise
technology.

The Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list recognizes 30 extraordinary individuals
under the age of 30 for their accomplishments.

Keno Fischer began contributing to Julia when the language was first
released in 2012. At the time, Keno was a 16 year-old high school
student. Keno is a native of Hösel, Germany who co-founded Julia
Computing in 2015 and graduated from Harvard University in 2016.

According to Viral Shah, CEO of Julia Computing, “Keno’s contributions
are fundamental to Julia’s growth and development. Keno started
contributing to Julia in high school when he led the Julia port to
Windows. Keno also led Julia Computing’s efforts on
Celeste, which
is the first petascale application in a dynamic computing language, and
Google.ai lead Jeff
Dean
recognized Keno’s work porting Julia to Google Cloud Tensor Processing
Units
(TPUs)
for artificial intelligence and machine learning. Keno is only 23 years
old and he is just getting started!”

About Julia and Julia Computing

  • Julia is free and open source with a large and growing community of
    more than 800 contributors, 2 million downloads, 1,900 packages, 41
    thousand GitHub stars (cumulative for Julia language and
    Julia packages) and +101% annual download growth

  • Julia combines the high-level productivity and ease of use of Python
    and R with the lightning-fast speed of C++

  • Julia users, partners and employers hiring Julia programmers include
    Amazon, Apple, BlackRock, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capital One, Comcast,
    Disney, Ernst & Young, Facebook, Federal Aviation Administration,
    Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Ford, Google, IBM, Intel, KPMG,
    Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, Oracle, PwC and Uber

  • Julia is used at more than 1,500 universities, research laboratories
    and research institutions worldwide including Harvard, MIT, UC
    Berkeley, Stanford, University of Chicago, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon,
    Cambridge, Oxford, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
    National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Energy
    Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Livermore National
    Laboratory, Alan Turing Institute, Max Planck Institute, National
    Renewable Energy Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Ames
    Laboratory and Barts Cancer Institute

  • Julia is the only high-level dynamic language that has run at
    petascale

  • Julia leveraged 650,000 cores and 1.3 million threads on 9,300
    Knights Landing (KNL) nodes to
    catalog
    188 million astronomical objects in just 14.6 minutes using the
    world’s sixth most powerful supercomputer

  • Julia provides speed and performance improvements of 1,000x or more
    for applications such as insurance risk
    modeling     and
    astronomical image
    analysis

  • Julia delivers vast improvements in speed and performance on a wide
    range of architectures from a single laptop to the world’s sixth
    most powerful supercomputer, and from one node to thousands of nodes
    including multithreading, GPU and parallel computing capabilities

  • Julia powers the Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen
    Aircraft Collision Avoidance
    System (ACAS-X)    ,
    BlackRock’s trademarket Aladdin analytics
    platform
    and the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s Dynamic Stochastic General
    Equilibrium (DSGE) macroeconomic
    model

  • Julia Computing was founded in
    2015 by all of the co-creators of Julia to provide Julia users with
    Julia products, Julia training, and Julia support. Julia Computing
    is headquartered in Boston with offices in London and Bangalore