British APL Association (London) presents a talk by Dr. James A.
Brown.
"The Future of APL".⍺
An evolution from his Berlin talk, refined for San Jose APLBUG and
again refined for NYSIGAPL.
It will be presented at:
The Albion
2/3 New Bridge Street
City of London
London
EC4V 6AA
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=The+Albion+EC4V+6AA
on Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 7.30 p.m.
"In 2010, at the international APL Conference in Berlin, it was
surprising to see how much new work is being done by the APL vendors.
APL is alive and well and is evolving. I will discuss the various
features of APL offerings and give my feelings on which should be
preserved and which I would be willing to give up. I will discuss
newer technologies including parallelism and distributed processing
which provide platforms where array technology can thrive. I will
discuss a project to move APL computing to the Cloud."
Jim Brown's Ph.D. thesis contained many of the extensions realized in
IBM's APL2. He was IBM's chief architect for APL2. After retiring from
IBM he founded SmartArrays with James Wheeler from STSC/Manugistics/
APL2000. He has recently formed NestedComputing with Mircea Morosan,
Morten Kromberg, and Gitte Christensen.