AnnouncingAPLO0: The Array Processing Languages Conference for the Year 2000 L00: THE ARRAYPROCESSINGLANGUAGESCONFERENCE forthe Year 2000 will be held on 24 July 2000 through 27 July 2000, at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. APL00 is sponsored by SIGAPL and APL Germany, and will be held in cooperation with SIGPLAN. For more information, please contact Dieter Lattcrmann at Kheinstrasse 23, D-69190 Walldoff, Germany; Tel: +49 6227 6227 63469, or E-Mail ID: "Dicter_Lattermann@Compuscrve .com', The conference opened with a keynote address by Eric Baden ofAPL2000 enfided '7 Can Succeed with APL--and So Can You. " This was followed by the presentation of the Kenneth E. Iverson Award. It was presented to John McPherson, a former IBM vice-president, by Adin FaLkoff. The presentations given during the day were: ¢ ¢ ¢ I Can Succeed with APL--and So Can You--Eric Baden How I Use APL--Richard Krafchin * Low Down Objects--Bob Armstrong An APLer's Suroival Guide to the World of Windows--Gary Bergquist J: Life after the Workspace--Chris Burke * APEX:A Key to High PerformanceAPL--Robert Bernecky The Derivative isfor Dancing--Linda Alvord ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ APLO0 Contacts General Chair: Dieter Lattermann Dieter Lattermann@Compuserve.com Treasurer: Gert Osterburg .......... GertOsterburg@t-o,line.de T a k i n g A P L A p a r t a n d P u t t i n g l t B a c k TogetherAgain-Jacob Brickman (Analyzing and Compiling Control Structures) ¢ The Epistemology ofAPL2--J. Phillip Bevkard ¢ ¢ OOP in J - - E r i c Iverson * Won-LoopingAlgorithmsforMortgage CashFtows--Steven M. Mansour 0 (Zero): A Practical Programming Language--Alan Graham K: A Demo--Michael K. Rosenberg * Windows Design Guide--Brian Chizever GommercialAPL Year-2OOOProjects: Tools, Testing, Metrics, Management, and Pope Gregory on Mars-Clement Kent Bayesian Financial Dynamic Linear Modeling in APL-Devon McCormick APL and the Media--Fred Waid A Panel on Year 2000 Issues in APL Projects--Clement Kent, Chris Lincoln, and Lynne Shaw * The conference ended with a closing keynote address by Gary Bergquist entitled "The Future of APL (in the Insurance Indusbry). " Co-Chair: Conrad Hoesle-Kienzlen Orgamizing C h a i r : Martin B a r g h o o m . .. Conrad_Hoesle@Csi.com ¢ ............. barg~cs.m-herlin.de Papers are to be submitted by February 2000. As further plans develop, they will be posted on the SIGAPL web page; bookmark "www.aem.org/sigapl". ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ A Review of the "APL as a Tool of Thought" Conference --An overview by Ray Polivha Poughkeepsie, .AtY ¢ HE NY/SIGAPL GRouP presented their 10th annum APL conference which they entitled APL as a Tool of Tkought, on January 31, 1998. This year, the conference was held at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The conference chairman was Phil Benkard, and the program chairman was David Siegel David arranged the program so that several of the presentations were repeated, since the day consisted of five tracks. T The presentations marked with * had no paper included in the proceedings. However, there was one paper in the proceedings, "TJendiesfor LOPS" by Jan Karman, for which no presentation at the conference was made. A copy of the proceeding for this conference may be obtained from NY/SIGAPL; contact David Siegel (Siegel@ACM.org) for more information. ¢ Ray PolivIm is theExecutive Editor for APL Quote Quad. He can be reached at "Polivka@ACM.org': APL Quote~uad

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