About the Author

Malcolm Sherrington has been working in computing for over 35 years. He holds degrees in mathematics, chemistry, and engineering and has given lectures at two different universities in the UK as well as worked in the aerospace and healthcare industries. Currently, he is running his own company in the finance sector, with specific interests in High Performance Computing and applications of GPUs and parallelism.

Always hands-on, Malcolm started programming scientific problems in Fortran and C, progressing through Ada and Common Lisp, and recently became involved with data processing and analytics in Perl, Python, and R.

Malcolm is the organizer of the London Julia User Group. In addition, he is a co-organizer of the UK High Performance Computing and the financial engineers and Quant London meetup groups.

I would like to dedicate this book to the memory of my late wife, Hazel Sherrington, without whose encouragement and support, my involvement in Julia would not have started but who is no longer here to see the culmination of her vision.

Also, I wish to give special thanks to Barbara Doré and James Weymes for their substantive help and material assistance in the preparation of this book.