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Julia (programming language)

Julia, also known as the Julia language, is a high-level programming language for scientific and numerical computing, announced in 2012, that matches C's speed through just-in-time compilation.

Julia J. Brown

Julia ("Julie") J. Brown is an electrical engineer who serves as Chief Technical Officer of Universal Display Corporation, leading development of phosphorescent OLED display materials.

Julia Pkg

Pkg is the built-in package manager of the Julia programming language, handling installing, updating, and removing packages since its debut with Julia 1.0 in 2018.

Julia R. Greer

Julia R. Greer is a materials scientist at Caltech known for 3D-printed nanoarchitected metamaterials and for showing that metal becomes stronger as its dimensions shrink.

Julia R. Weertman

Julia R. Weertman, born Julia Ann Randall (1926–2018), was an American materials scientist and professor at Northwestern University known for research on high-temperature alloys and pioneering studies of nanocrystalline metals.

Julia Watson

Julia Watson is an Australian-born designer, author, and educator who coined Lo—TEK, a design movement built on Indigenous technologies, writing its TASCHEN volumes in 2019 and 2025.

Julian J. Bussgang

Julian J. Bussgang (Julian Jakob Bussgang, 1925–2023) was a Polish-born American engineer, entrepreneur, and translator known for the Bussgang theorem, for founding Signatron, and for translating Polish-Jewish memoirs.

Julian Szekely

Julian Szekely (1934–1995) was a Hungarian-born American materials scientist who taught at MIT from 1975 and pioneered mathematical modeling of steelmaking, welding, and plasma processing.

Juliane Koepcke

Juliane Koepcke, now Juliane Diller, is a German-Peruvian biologist who was the sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508, which crashed in the Peruvian Amazon in 1971.

Jülich Solar Tower

The Jülich Solar Tower (Solarturmkraftwerk Jülich) is a 1.5 MW experimental concentrating solar power plant in Jülich, Germany, the only solar thermal tower plant in the country.

Julie B. Zimmerman

Julie B. Zimmerman, also known as Julie Beth Zimmerman, is an American environmental engineer at Yale known for the Twelve Principles of Green Engineering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Julie Inman Grant

Julie Inman Grant is an Australian technology policy official who has served as the inaugural eSafety Commissioner since 2017, leading Australia's online safety regulator through the under-16 social media ban.

Julie Payette

Julie Payette, born in 1963 in Montreal, is a Canadian engineer and former astronaut who flew two Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station.

Julien Le Dem

Julien Le Dem is a French software architect, open source leader, and entrepreneur who co-created Apache Parquet, Apache Arrow, and OpenLineage; chaired Parquet at the ASF, co-founded Datakin (acquired by Astronomer), and is now Principal Engineer at Datadog in Berkeley, California.

Julimar-Brunello

Julimar-Brunello is a pair of offshore natural gas and condensate fields in the North Carnarvon Basin off Western Australia, discovered in 2007, that feed the Chevron-operated Wheatstone LNG facility.

Julio M. Ottino

Julio M. Ottino is an Argentina-born chemical engineer at Northwestern University whose work established the scientific basis of mixing in laminar flows through chaotic advection.

Julius Adams Stratton

Julius Adams Stratton was an American electrical engineer and mathematical physicist who served as MIT's eleventh president, from 1959 to 1966, and chaired the Ford Foundation.

Julius Beau Lucks

Julius Beau Lucks, also known as Julius B. Lucks, is an American synthetic biologist and RNA engineer who is a professor at Northwestern University and co-founded Stemloop.

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was a physicist, born in Lemberg in Austria-Hungary in 1882, who patented the field-effect transistor concept in 1925, two decades before the first working transistor.

Julius J. Harwood

Julius J. Harwood (died 2014) was an American metallurgist who directed Ford's Materials Sciences Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Julius Nyerere hydroelectric plant

The Julius Nyerere Hydropower Plant is a 2,115 MW facility in southeastern Tanzania. It is the country's largest power plant and key energy source.

July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike

The July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike was a US Army Apache attack in eastern Baghdad that killed Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh, among others.

Jumbo frame

A jumbo frame is an Ethernet frame with a payload larger than the standard 1,500-byte MTU, typically about 9,000 bytes, used mainly in storage networks.

Jumbotron

Jumbotron, also known as Jumbovision, is a Sony trademark for a giant video display introduced at Tsukuba Expo '85 in 1985, now used loosely for any stadium screen.

Jumièges Abbey

Jumièges Abbey (Abbaye de Jumièges) is a former Benedictine abbey at Jumièges in Normandy, France, founded in 654 by Saint Philibert and now among France's most celebrated monastic ruins.

Juming Tang

Juming Tang is a Chinese-American food process engineer who developed FDA-approved microwave sterilization for packaged foods at Washington State University and became University of Washington engineering chair in 2024.

Jump search

Jump search, also called block search, is a searching algorithm for sorted arrays that jumps ahead in fixed-size blocks and then linearly scans the block that could hold the target.

Jump server

A jump server, also called a jump host or jump box, is a hardened computer administrators connect to first to reach machines in a more sensitive network zone.

JumpCloud Inc.

JumpCloud Inc. is a privately held software company in Louisville, Colorado, founded in 2012, selling a cloud directory platform for identity, access, and device management.

Jumpsuit

A jumpsuit is a one-piece garment combining a top and trousers, originating in Italy in 1919 as protective wear for skydivers and later moving between workwear and high fashion.