We wanted to thank all Julia users and well wishers for the support and for being part of the Julia Community, and to give an update on some exciting developments for 2017:

1. JuliaPro Release
2. Julia by the Numbers
3. Julia Jobs Growth
4. Julia Development Update Calendar
5. Julia in the News
6. Julia Case Studies
7. Contact Julia Computing

1. JuliaPro Release

   If you haven’t already downloaded the new JuliaPro, please take
   a moment to do so now.

   JuliaPro comes in two flavors:

   • JuliaPro: The fast, free way to download and use Julia
     immediately on your desktop or laptop. Includes Julia compiler,
     debugger, profiler, integrated development environment,
     visualization and plotting and over 100 curated packages.

   • JuliaPro Enterprise: For installation on your desktop, laptop or
     enterprise server. Includes all the features of JuliaPro, plus Excel
     integration and support for $1,500 per user per year. Indemnity is
     available with a customer site license for an additional charge.

2. Julia by the Numbers

   Julia use expanded dramatically in 2016, and 2017 is shaping up to be
   the year that Julia expands from early adopters into the mainstream.

[1] Julia: A Fast Dynamic Language for Technical Computing (2012)
[2] Julia: A Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing (2014)

1. Julia Jobs Growth

   Demand for Julia programmers is increasing rapidly in finance,
   industry, science and technology.

   Employers looking to hire Julia programmers in 2017 include: Apple,
   Amazon, Facebook, BlackRock, Ford, Oracle, Comcast, Massachusetts
   General Hospital, Farmers Insurance, Los Alamos National Laboratory and
   the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

   Indeed.com: Julia Job Postings and Julia Jobseeker Interest

   
   

2. Julia Development Update Calendar

   2016

   • Julia 0.5, JuliaPro and JuliaPro Enterprise released, including
     Excel integration

   • Julia debugger, profiler and integrated development environment
     released

   • Julia became available on Amazon Web Services and AWS pronounced
     MXNet the “Framework of Choice” for deep learning using Julia and
     other languages

   2017 – Q1

   • JuliaFin launches, including Bloomberg integration, Excel
     integration, advanced time-series functionality and Miletus, a new
     dedicated Julia package for implementation of complex trading
     strategies

   • Julia launches on Microsoft Azure’s Data Science Virtual Machine

   2017 – Q2 & Q3

   • JuliaCon 2017 @ UC Berkeley

   • Julia 1.0 release

3. Julia in the News

   • “Julia is poised to become one of the leading tools deployed by
     developers and programmers at banks, hedge funds, regulators and
     vendors.”
     WatersTechnology:
     “The Infancy of Julia: An Inside Look at How Traders and Economists
     are Using the Julia Programming Language”

   • “Julia is fast, … can call C directly without a wrapper, integrates
     top tier open source C and Fortran code into its Base library, and
     can easily call Python as well. Julia is built for parallel and
     cloud computing, and has particular interest from the analytics and
     scientific computing communities. According to KDnuggets’ most
     recent analytics software poll, Julia placed 8th on the list of most
     used programming languages.”
     KDnuggets:
     “Top Machine Learning Projects for Julia”

   • “Delivering Hadoop style parallelism, … [Julia] is destined to
     make a major impact.” Coding
     Dojo:
     “7 New Programming Languages to Learn in 2016”

   • “[I]t’s notable that Julia, a high-level programming language
     built expressly for use in technical computing, has entered TIOBE’s
     list …. In industries that prize efficiency, such as finance, Julia
     has enjoyed rapid adoption by tech professionals and
     data scientists. In banking and trading, algorithmic traders and
     quants now rely on Julia because it allows them to push code as
     quickly as possible to market, without needing to rewrite.”
     Dice:
     “Julia Gains Popularity on the TIOBE Language List”

   • “Overall, Julia is a welcome addition [to the High Performance
     Computing (HPC)] community. …The future looks bright for Julia. New
     and existing HPC coders will appreciate a dirt-simple on-ramp to the
     HPC superhighway.”
     TheNextPlatform:
     “Dirt Simple HPC: Making the Case for Julia”

   • Julia should be on the radar of everyone from traders and operations
     executives to IT managers, developers and data scientists and really
     anyone who wants to expand their job options as electronic trading
     takes over and the industry as a while becomes more
     technology-centric.”
     Efinancialcareers:
     “Julia Programming Language: This Is the New Skill Hedge Funds Are
     Asking For”

4. Julia Case Studies

   • Nobel Laureate Thomas J.
     Sargent,
     presenting at JuliaCon 2016, described his next-generation
     macroeconomic models as “a walking advertisement for Julia”

   • Julia for Deep
     Learning
     was showcased with IBM at SC16, using IBM’s Power8 server and NVIDIA
     GPU accelerators to increase the processing speed of medical image
     analysis 57x for diagnosing diabetic retinopathy

   • Researchers at
     Intel,
     UC
     Berkeley,
     Lawrence Berkeley
     Labs, the
     National Energy Research Scientific Computing
     Center (NERSC),
     JuliaLabs@MIT
     and Julia Computing developed a new
     parallel supercomputing method which increases the speed of
     astronomical image analysis 225x

   • BlackRock,
     the world’s largest asset manager, is using Julia to upgrade their
     trademark Aladdin analytics platform

   • Lincoln
     Labs and
     the Federal Aviation
     Administration
     are using Julia to analyze 650 billion decision points for the next
     generation Aircraft Collision Avoidance System

   • The Federal Reserve Bank of New
     York is using
     Julia to run their Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model
     10-11x faster with 50% fewer lines of code

   • Voxel8 is
     using Julia for 3D printing and drone manufacture

   • UC Berkeley researchers are using Julia to guide the Berkeley
     Autonomous Race
     Car

   • An article published in
     Nature
     describes how UK cancer researchers are using Julia to model cancer
     evolution and inform interpretation of cancer genomes

   • Augmedics
     is using Julia to provide surgeons with ‘X-ray vision’ using Julia
     and augmented reality to project images of internal structures onto
     patients’ bodies in real time during surgery

   • PathBioAnalytics
     is using Julia to develop personalized precision medical treatments
     for patients

5. Contact Julia Computing

   Please contact us at info@juliacomputing.com for any of the following reasons:

   • Julia Sales and Marketing: Can Julia Computing help you, your
     organization or industry? Are you interested in JuliaFin (for
     finance), JuliaRun (for cloud), JuliaPro Enterprise with indemnity,
     support, training or consulting? Can we make you a more effective
     advocate for Julia within your organization or industry? Please
     contact us at info@juliacomputing.com.

   • Case Studies: Are you using Julia for something interesting,
     unique, exciting or cool? Please check out the case
     studies on our Website. If
     you have a Julia story to tell, we want to capture it. Please
     contact us at info@juliacomputing.com and we will follow up with
     you for more information.