JuliaCon (the first one ever) was a great event and I'm glad the videos are ready to go up now so others can see these excellent presentations – there will be more, but this includes talks by Tim Holy about the medical imaging applications his research lab at WUSTL uses Julia for and some cool recent NLP work by Pontus Sterntorp. Well worth watching for both scientific curiosity and interest in Julia as a language and ecosystem.
I was a presenter. I wasn't entirely sure what I expected from the conference when I submitted my talk, but I was really impressed with the breadth of topics as well as some early commercial adopters of Julia. Props to the creators and maintainers for making this a reality, you all have some serious talent working behind the scenes and if that keeps up I see only good things for Julia. I look forward to the next conference, and hope after people see these videos they may be encouraged to come to the next one (how about Houston? :) )
Note that these are just the first three videos. As I understand the rest of the videos are being edited and uploaded right now.
Such a pity the audio and video quality is so mediocre. Python (David Sanders Julia presentation at iPython conference) did it much better. :)
We're actually lucky it's this good! It was as good as our audio/visual dept could edit it; we definitely didn't prepare as much as we should in this area and next year will be much better.
The entire event was volunteer run, and I am actually thankful to the organizers that we got these recordings. There are always things that one can do better the next time...