Holy s**t! I'm very excited!
On Friday, 8 April 2016 20:43:09 UTC-5, Andreas Noack wrote: > > JuliaCon 2016 > June 21 - 25, 2016 > Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. > http://juliacon.org/ > > On behalf of the JuliaCon 2016 committee, I am happy to announce the > following keynote speakers: > > *Timothy E. Holy, Thomas J. Sargent, *and* Guy L. Steele Jr.* > > *Timothy E. Holy* is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Washington > University in St. Louis. In 2009 he received the NIH Director’s Pioneer > award for innovations in optics and microscopy. His research interests > include imaging of neuronal activity and his lab was probably one of the > first to adopt Julia for scientific research. He is a long time Julia > contributor and a lead developer of Julia’s multidimensional array > capabilities as well as the author of far too many Julia packages. > > *Thomas J. Sargent* is Professor of Economics at New York University and > Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2011 the Royal Swedish > Academy of Sciences awarded him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic > Sciences for his work on macroeconomics. Together with John Stachurski he > founded quant-econ.net, a Julia and Python based learning platform for > quantitative economics focusing on algorithms and numerical methods for > studying economic problems as well as coding skills. > > *Guy L. Steele Jr.* is a Software Architect for Oracle Labs and Principal > Investigator of the Programming Language Research project. The Association > for Computing Machinery awarded him the 1988 Grace Murray Hopper award. He > has co-designed the programming language Scheme, which has greatly > influenced the design of Julia, as well as languages such as Fortress and > Java. > > Andreas Noack > JuliaCon 2016 Local Chair > Postdoctoral Associate > Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory > Massachusetts Institute of Technology >
