# Boyd is a Julia fan!
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/boyd-is-a-julia-fan/126317
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** optimization, convex-optimization
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/boyd-is-a-julia-fan/126317 "2025-02-25T23:31:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@langestefan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/langestefan)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/boyd-is-a-julia-fan/126317/1 "2025-02-25T23:31:32Z")
Just saw this interesting talk by Stephen Boyd:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U41e7hKAAPQ&t=3070s)
It’s an older video but he says some very interesting stuff about Julia at 51:10 🙂
(entire talk is super interesting, highly recommend watching it)
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### Author:  [@apo383](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/apo383)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/boyd-is-a-julia-fan/126317/2 "2025-03-02T18:02:40Z")
It’s great how opinionated he is, been that way his whole life.
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### Author:  [@Benny](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Benny)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/boyd-is-a-julia-fan/126317/3 "2025-03-02T18:45:24Z")
Didn’t watch the whole talk, just the 49:35-52:09 clip where he gets into languages, but looking this guy up very quickly, he’s one of the authors on the paper for Convex.jl, as well as the other libraries he mentioned.
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### Author:  [@langestefan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/langestefan)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/boyd-is-a-julia-fan/126317/4 "2025-03-02T19:43:52Z")
‘this guy’ is famous enough to have [his own wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_P._Boyd) 🙂
I bet every student taking convex optimization right now will use one of his books.
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### Author:  [@maxkapur](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/maxkapur)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/boyd-is-a-julia-fan/126317/5 "2025-03-02T23:42:52Z")
Speaking at my graduate alma mater, no less! We had like 12 copies of his textbook in our lab. So many interesting application examples.
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### Author:  [@kapple](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kapple)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/boyd-is-a-julia-fan/126317/6 "2025-03-03T06:51:07Z")
Haha! Our social status and employability is higher, nice. 😛