Jeff Bezanson PhD

[stevengj]

One of the core Julia authors, @JeffBezanson, has become a problematic developer. He needs to graduate from MIT, ideally by January 2015. Dependencies:

• [x] Thesis proposal.
• [x] Thesis outline.
• [x] Meeting with thesis committee.
• [x] Rough draft sent to advisor(s).
• [x] Schedule defense.
• [x] Final draft sent to committee.
• [x] Defense.
• [x] Alcohol.

This is a priority issue, to ensure that arms are not broken and to guarantee long-term viability of the Julia project.

cc: @alanedelman, @jiahao, @StefanKarpinski, @ViralBShah, @samanamarasinghe, @gjs

Edit (VS): This issue is closed with the following thesis. I am putting it up here, since many people will be interested in finding it. https://github.com/JeffBezanson/phdthesis/blob/master/main.pdf

[toivoh]

Congratulations!

[abhijitiitr]

Congrats

[sjkelly]

Woop woop congrats Jeff!

[aviks]

Congratulations, Dr Bezanson!

[stevengj]

Thanks for posting the photo, @ScottPJones. @jiahao, I think you have some photos as well?

[tknopp]

Congratulations Jeff. Your work that ended in this PHD has influenced many of us. It will have and already has a huge impact on scientific computing! Rock on!

[shabbychef]

congratulations.

[mschauer]

Great!

[rahuldave]

Congrats Jeff!!

[dpsanders]

Fantastic, congrats!!

[ViralBShah]

Congrats Dr. Bezanson!

[ViralBShah]

The thesis, for those who'd like to take a peek:

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/phdthesis/blob/master/main.pdf

[tonyhffong]

Congrats!

[mattjj]

Congratulations!

[lindahua]

Congratulations!

[Gnimuc]

Congrats :+1:

[jiahao]

I don't know why GitHub decided to rotate all my pictures, but here they are.

Issue closing ceremony video: http://youtu.be/hGpLOZX6CEY

[staticfloat]

Aleph-zero congratulations to you, Jeff! If you're ever in Seattle, let me buy you a congratulatory drink. :)

[amitmurthy]

Congrats Jeff. It feels very nice to celebrate your work as a community.

[tkelman]

Congratulations!

@jiahao, might be worth re-running the latest world of Julia as supplementary material for the acknowledgements page :)

[JeffBezanson]

Thank you everybody.

Unfortunately my thesis is not actually done, but hopefully will be soon...

[ScottPJones]

I've got a couple more pictures, I'll be sending them on to Jeff after I wake up (for his mother, a very nice lady!) Dr. Bezanson can post them here if he wishes...

[ScottPJones]

Not done??? Did Gerry ask you to remove all of that bloody "syntax" and just let him write with s-expressions?

[ViralBShah]

@JeffBezanson using a mac is not a picture I ever expected to see!

[carlobaldassi]

Yay!

[dancasimiro]

Congratulations

[sherrinm]

Well done from all your fans this side of the pond.

[JeffBezanson]

Not done??? Did Gerry ask you to remove all of that bloody "syntax" and just let him write with s-expressions?

You nailed it! I'm not kidding. But he will settle for an optional s-expr mode.

[ScottPJones]

I’d been talking to him after the presentation... he liked your stuff, but really didn’t care for all the syntax... there’s just so much of it... he reminded me of how small the Scheme manual is :grinning: When I had him for 6.001 [first semester it was taught], we had to implement a small Scheme interpreter in MacLisp... since Scheme was so small, it was pretty doable...

[ScottPJones]

and I’m sure you can knock that out pretty quickly, with that bottle of bourbon for company (if there’s any left! ;-) )

[JeffBezanson]

Speaking of the length of the scheme manual, it's funny: a large percentage of it is devoted to documenting the behavior of numbers, while in Julia that's defined in libraries. Julia could potentially be a smaller core language than scheme (unless of course you stapled the LLVM spec to it).

For it or against it, there's too much emphasis on syntax! Also check out section 7.1 of http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/. Scheme syntax is more complex than people think!

[ScottPJones]

Julia could potentially be a smaller core language than scheme (unless of course you stapled the LLVM spec to it).

Yes, Julia has good bones!

[toivoh]

Time to dig out the old @sexpr macro?

[trezitorul]

Congratulations on graduating and on what you pulled out with Julia!

[yurivish]

:cake: Congratulations!

[stepchowfun]

Congrats @JeffBezanson!

[dustinvtran]

congratulations :)

[interhive]

:+1:

[StefanKarpinski]

@boyers! Long time no see!

[stepchowfun]

miss you guys :)

[nicola-gigante]

Congratulations!

Just a question: the PDF does not have links in the ToC nor an browsable index in the pdf metadata. Why is it so difficult for a MIT-graduated compiler-writer to add \usepackage{hyperref} in his preamble?

[ViralBShah]

That is because you are supposed to read the whole thing and not just skip around. ;-)

But yes, hyperref would make this a lot more accessible.

[nicola-gigante]

I promise you to read the whole thing if you add the links :P

[rtoip]

Congratulations. Freedom awaits.

[nlazarevic]

Congrats, Dr. Bezanson!

[timholy]

@nicola-gigante, you can make a pull request :smile:.

[jpfairbanks]

can we lobby for a best dissertation award?

http://awards.acm.org/doctoral_dissertation/nominations.cfm

[mseri]

Congratulation!!!

[ScottPJones]

@jpfairbanks - good idea! It has to be submitted by his thesis advisor though... pester Alan Edelman, I think...

[jpfairbanks]

Yeah it needs nomination by the advisor and 5 letters of support. Based on this issue I think at least 5 people think he deserves it.