ACM Turing Award Honors Jack J. Dongarra for Pioneering Concepts and Methods Which Have Resulted in World-Changing Computations

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I thought this would be relevant to the Julia scientific computing community!

Jack J. Dongarra is the primary author of BLAS and LAPACK, without which scientific computing would be much more difficult!

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Huge congrats to Dr Dongarra! Well deserved and a significant recognition of the importance of numerical computing as a facet of computer science.

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And here an interview to znet where he speaks of Julia:

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By the way, here’s a link to a short video that was referenced in the Communications of the ACM for June of this year: