Announcing Julia 1.0
NumFOCUS congratulates the Julia community on their achievement of the much-anticipated 1.0 release—the culmination of nearly a decade of work to build a language for “greedy programmers.” JuliaCon2018 celebrated the event with a reception where the community...
Optimization modeling language JuMP joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: JuMP. JuMP is a modeling interface and a collection of supporting packages for mathematical optimization that is embedded in Julia (also a NumFOCUS sponsored project). With JuMP,...
Two Sigma Renews Corporate Sponsorship of NumFOCUS
Two Sigma, Quantitative Hedge Fund, Renews Support for Open Source Scientific Computing NumFOCUS is proud to announce that Two Sigma, a Gold level Corporate Sponsor, has renewed their financial support for a second year. “Two Sigma is thrilled to continue our...
NumFOCUS to Hold 2018 Elections for Board of Directors
New Procedures for This Year’s Election In the coming weeks, NumFOCUS will be holding Board of Directors elections to install a new board of seven members whose terms will begin at our Summit, September 22-25. It turns out that we have not had elections in a few...