MIT, where the popular Julia language was born, has created a probabilistic-programming system called 'Gen', which it says will make it easier for newbies to get started with computer vision ...

Python is the most popular "other" programming language among developers using Julia for data-science projects.

The four young people at MIT who developed Julia wanted to address the shortcomings in Python other languages, and applications used for scientific computing and data processing.

Dubbed Julia, it provides an early glimpse into what programming languages might look like in the not-too-distant future. Today's languages were each designed with different goals in mind.

Feature Enterprises have sought out the creators of Julia to get support, training, and expertise in the language.

In a recent paper, MIT researchers introduced Gen, a general-purpose probabilistic language based on Julia aimed to allow users to express models and create inference algorithms using high-level ...

MIT has a Julia lab dedicated to the research and development of the language, and the fourth annual JuliaCon conference will take place at the University of California, Berkeley this year.