Viral B Shah on Creating Programming Language Julia

Inventions often happen when someone somewhere is unhappy with the state of affairs. At MIT, Viral Shah and his colleagues were frustrated with data science and ended up creating Julia, a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. In this special segment of India Innovates, we talk to the co-founder of Julia Computing, Viral Shah, about why MIT, Cornell and Stanford are teaching Julia to their students.