> researchers at MIT have decided to tackle this challenge with full force by developing a brand new language for HPC called Julia This and the linked news pie

> researchers at MIT have decided to tackle this challenge with full force by developing a brand new language for HPC called Julia This and the linked news piece [1] from MIT News sound pretty weird to me. The OP article probably takes the bit about "researchers at MIT" developing Julia from the MIT News page, so that's the real source of the issue - the MIT News pages seems to have been written with weird biases, making it sound like a primarily MIT project that other people have just tacked a few things on to. And then there's: > A few years ago, when an HPC startup Edelman was involved in [...] was acquired by Microsoft, he launched a new project with three others. That to me sounds like an implication that Edelman was the one to initiate the project and take in the others. They seem to be writing from the usual academic bias of "the senior faculty gets the credit even if the actual work is done by the PhD/graduate students". Edelman was Bezanson's thesis advisor and a crucial part of Julia's history, but this article seems to be downplaying the role of the other core contributors and the open source community. I had assumed university news, at least in such technical topics, would be more reliable and less inherently biased, learned something new today. [1] http://news.mit.edu/2014/high-performance-computing-programming-ease http://news.mit.edu/2014/high-performance-computing-programm...