(From left to right): UCSB CS alums Stefan Karpinski, and Viral Shah, with other cofounders of Julia Computing, Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Deepak Vinchhi and Keno Fischer.

Forbes recently features an article covering startup company Julia Computing, co-founded by UCSB CS alums Stefan Karpinski and Viral Shah. Both Karpinski and Shah were affiliated with the Combinatorial Scientific Computing lab (CSC), led by Prof. John Gilbert. According to julialang.org, Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical computing. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. Julia’s Base library, largely written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed open source C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, signal processing, and string processing. In addition, the Julia developer community is contributing a number of external packages through Julia’s built-in package manager at a rapid pace. IJulia, a collaboration between the Jupyter and Julia communities, provides a powerful browser-based graphical notebook interface to Julia. The new programming language Julia is now widely used by major companies.

Check out Forbes's detailed coverage of Julia Computing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/suparnadutt/2017/09/20/this-startup-created-a-new-programming-language-now-used-by-the-worlds-biggest-companies/#671184547de2