Julia is a modern programming language that increases accessibility of high performance computing. We leverage Julia's features in the creation of a high performance package for computationally intensive epidemic models. Specifically, we introduce Pathoge... (more…)

On Dec 8, 1919 Julia Robinson was born, so today is close to her 100th birthday (she passed away at the age of 65 on July 30, 1985). S... (more…)

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” go the famous words of Arthur C. Clarke. Often when we see magic, a small dose of knowledge is enough to wash away our wide-eyed awe and bring us back to sweet, comfortable cynicism. ... (more…)

After 2 years of slow but steady development, we would like to announce the first preview release of native GPU programming capabilities for Julia. You can now write your CUDA kernels in Julia, albeit with some restrictions, making it possible to use Juli... (more…)

In this post I would like to reflect a bit on Julia. These are my personal views and I have had more than a year developing a lot of packages for the Julia programming language. After roaming around many different languages including R, MATLAB, C, and Pyt... (more…)