British APL Association (London) presents a talk by Dr. James A. Brown.
Phil Last
"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.
Phil Last
on a Thursday not a Friday and in the evening not the afternoon.
And will everyone else note that it is only nine days from today.
Phil Last
Thursday evening, 7.30pm
"The Albion", New Bridge Street, London EC4V 6AA
A rare opportunity to hear Jim speak publicly in Britain.
Don't miss it.