An Interview with Roy Sykes Ray Polivka polivkar@juno.com An interview with Roy Sykes at APL99. Ray Polivka: Roy, first of all I would like to congratulate you on your receiving the 1998 Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL. I think it is well deserved. In that vein, I would like to ask you how you got started with APL. Roy Sykes: Thank you, Ray. I encountered APL at Syracuse University. While taking a production management course, I was assigned a linear programming problem. I discovered some big, boxy terminals with keyboards and type balls that had funny symbols on them. Ray Polivka: What were the terminals? Roy Sykes: They were 2741's, naturally; 14.9 characters per second, 134.5 baud. Ray Polivka: What year was this? Roy Sykes: This was 1969. Incidentally, I met Marilyn Pritchard there -- she a graduate student and I an undergraduate. Ray Polivka: Isn't Marilyn a former chair of SIGAPL? Roy Sykes: Yes, that's right. She worked for Scientific Time Sharing Corporation (later, STSC) after that. Her husband Tom, who also joined STSC, was also at Syracuse. I also met Jim Brown when he was a graduate student. I was merely an undergraduate gnat
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An interview with Roy Sykes
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