Julia Computing Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Alan Edelman accepted the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award at SC19 with a presentation on The Power of Language.

According to IEEE, Edelman received the award “for outstanding breakthroughs in high-performance computing, linear algebra and computational science, and for contributions to the Julia programming language.”

Alan Edelman is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT and Principal Investigator at the MIT Julia Lab. In addition to the Sidney Fernbach Award, Alan’s other awards include the Charles Babbage Prize, Gordon Bell Prize, Chauvenet Prize, Householder Prize, Edgerly Science Partnership Award, Lester R. Ford Award (with Gilbert Strang) and the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize.

By: Blog on JuliaGPU

Re-posted from: https://juliagpu.org/new_site/

Welcome to the new landing page for the JuliaGPU organization. This website serves as an introduction to the several packages for programming GPUs in Julia, with pointers to relevant resources for new users.
The sources for this website are hosted at GitHub and generated using Hugo, feel free to open an issue or pull request if you think it could be improved.

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