Oct 2015
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9 Fri 09:00 AM – 06:05 PM IST
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Julia is a high-level dynamic language which was invented out of greed to do more. Unlike other high-level dynamic languages, Julia is really fast. It inherits design tenets from Lisp, builds on the good parts of C, MATLAB, R, Python and Ruby to create a language that is performant and highly productive at the same time.
We are proud to announce the first ever JuliaCon India. It will feature the creators of the language Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B Shah, and an enthusiastic contingent of Julia programmers in India. It’s a two-day event consisting of a day-long conference (9th Oct) and a workshop (10th Oct).
KM
Kannan Moudgalya
@kannanm
Teaching Julia
Submitted Oct 3, 2015
Section:
Crisp talk
Technical level:
Beginner
To Introduce our group’s efforts to use Julia in Education.
Outline
This session will be about the story of the Rs. 5,000 laptop built at IITB, the team’s experience of porting Julia to it, teaching material we are building for Julia.
We will learn how open source software systems can co-exist, and together can make a viable alternative to established commercial software. For example, with Julia’s computing power at the back end, A Scilab Xcos modelling framework could be as good as, if not better than, Simulink. Julia’s targeted code development for microcontrollers, through Julia to C compiler and other applications, will fill a long felt need, as such capabilities exist only in commercial systems.
Speaker bio
Prof. Kannan M Moudgalya is a professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and Education Technology at IIT Bombay. His group has been pivotal in driving the adaption of open source software in India - especially tools for technical computing, such as SciLab. In the field of education his group is now working on Aakash, the world’s lowest cost computer and also its successor, a netbook computer costing Rs. 7,500. We are developing educational content for these devices.
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