COVERSTORY for OutdtandinG ontribution to th( D(o(Iopm t and iElpplicattionof BY ADIN FA.LKOFFON BEHALFOF S I G A P L pL PRESENTED AT THE A P L A s A TOOL OF THOUGHT CONFERENCE --Comments by.Ton McGrew XNCE1983, the Person of the Year award from ACM's Special Interest Group on APL has become the computer industry's most prestigious award f o r APL ent. It has been presented to the people who have done the most to further the role of APL, whether through implementation or education or any other significant means. Previous recipients of the SIGAPL award form an impressive group: Adin FalkoiF, Garth Foster; Dan Dyer and Ian Sharp; Raymond Tisserand, Clark Wiedmann and Alex Morrow; Eugene McDonnell; Al Rose; Philip Van Cleave; Ray Polivka; Phil Abrams; Jim Brown; Donald McIntyre; Peter Donnelly and John Scholes; and Roger Hni. ACM SIGAPL is pleased to announce that the Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Distinguished Achievement in APL was presented in z997 to Tohn C. McPherson for his many years of support to APL. The presentation of the award was made at the APL as a Tool of Thought Conference held at the Stevens Institute of Technology in
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