Jeff Bezanson

{{Short description|Computer scientist}}

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File:Jeff Bezanson.jpg presenting his session "Introduction to Julia Internals" at JuliaCon 2014]]

Jeff Bezanson (born December 26, 1981) is an American computer scientist best known for co-creating the Julia programming language with Stefan Karpinski, Alan Edelman and Viral B. Shah in 2012.{{Cite web|last=Krill|first=Paul|date=2012-04-18|title=New Julia language seeks to be the C for scientists|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2616709/new-julia-language-seeks-to-be-the-c-for-scientists.html|access-date=2021-11-05|website=InfoWorld|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Schmidt|first=Julia|date=2021-08-05|title=State of Julia: the future looks modular, generic, and fast • DEVCLASS|url=https://devclass.com/2021/08/05/state-of-julia-language-2021/|access-date=2021-12-09|website=DEVCLASS|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|last=D'Cunha|first=Suparna Dutt|date=2017-09-20|title=How A New Programming Language Created By Four Scientists Now Used By The World's Biggest Companies|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/suparnadutt/2017/09/20/this-startup-created-a-new-programming-language-now-used-by-the-worlds-biggest-companies/?sh=5473f57de2ad|access-date=2022-05-13|website=Forbes|language=en}} The language spawned Julia Computing Inc.{{Cite web|date=2015-05-18|title=Why the creators of the Julia programming language just launched a startup|url=https://venturebeat.com/2015/05/18/why-the-creators-of-the-julia-programming-language-just-launched-a-startup/|access-date=2021-12-09|website=VentureBeat|language=en-US}} (since then renamed to JuliaHub Inc.) of which Bezanson is the CTO. As a founder of the company and co-creator of the language, Bezanson earned the 2019 J.H. Wilkinson Prize for his work on the Julia programming language{{Cite web|title=January Prize Spotlight: Jeff Bezanson, Steven L. Brunton, Jack Dongarra, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B. Shah|url=https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/january-prize-spotlight-jeff-bezanson-steven-l-brunton-jack-dongarra-stefan-karpinski-and-viral-b-shah|access-date=2021-10-12|website=SIAM News|language=en-US}} alongside Shah and Karpinski. Bezanson is also listed as an author on academic papers regarding the Julia language.{{cite arXiv|last1=Bezanson|first1=Jeff|last2=Edelman|first2=Alan|last3=Karpinski|first3=Stefan|last4=Shah|first4=Viral B.|date=2015-07-19|title=Julia: A Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing|class=cs.MS|eprint=1411.1607}}{{Cite web|last=al|first=Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, Alan Edelman, et|title=Research|url=https://julialang.org/research/|access-date=2021-12-09|website=julialang.org|language=en}}