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Alan Edelman
KindPerson
Born1963
StatusAlive
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcemath.mit.edu ↗

Co-created Julia and runs its MIT lab — the math professor who wanted Fortran's speed with Python's face.

Created Julia

Co-created Julia — the MIT professor behind the project — and built the parallel-computing theory it runs on.\n\nSIAM fellow; the 'why we created Julia' (2012) blog post is the founding document.

Sources

  1. math.mit.edu/~edelman/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Edelman