Dyalog '23 Day 2: Looking Into the Future
The weather improved today – the sunshine was a refreshing feeling as we awoke to a new day of forward-thinking presentations. As usual, we began with Gitte Christensen’s welcoming address in which she spoke of the exciting new growth happening at Dyalog Ltd. Five new employees have joined since we met in Portugal last year […]
Dyalog '23 Day 1: Welcome to Denmark!
We have returned to the (very windy this time!) shores of Elsinore in Denmark for our annual user meeting, Dyalog ’23! Today saw the usual range workshops in which everybody could get involved learning the intricacies of a range of topics with the support of experts from Team Dyalog and friends. In the morning, users […]
Welcome Stefan Kruger
Stefan Kruger recently joined Dyalog Ltd from IBM, where he worked on distributed databases for many years. Stefan spent a long time at university doing research in signal processing; after that he worked in several start-ups that were closely tied to the academic world. Then, taking a step away from technology for a while, Stefan […]
Employee Spotlight: Peter
This week marks the first anniversary of Peter joining Dyalog Ltd. He is one of the newest additions to Team Dyalog and we couldn’t be more excited for his future here. We were able to pry him away from the interpreter to catch up with him and see what his time has been like so […]
Welcome Jada Andrade
Jada moved to the United Kingdom in 2015 to pursue a degree in law with politics at the University of Manchester. On graduation she relocated to Reading in the south of England, where she took on various temporary positions in administration during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jada first heard about APL when her partner, Rich Park, […]
APL Seeds '23: Wednesday 22 March
Last Wednesday we hosted APL Seeds ’23, the third of our free online user meetings aimed at new and prospective users of APL. In attendance was a mix of new users and the APL-curious, as well as more experienced APLers answering questions and imparting wisdom in the chat and during the post-event meetup. Rich Park […]
Welcome Peter Mikkelsen
Peter joined Dyalog Ltd in mid-July 2022, shortly after finishing his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Aalborg University in Denmark. He didn’t originally plan to look for a job so soon, but when he saw that Dyalog Ltd had an opening involving three of his favorite things (C programming, interpreters, and APL) it was […]
Welcome Silas Poulson
As is often the case these days, Silas found APL through online programming language discussions – both in various forums and through videos (Aaron Hsu’s Co-dfns and John Scholes’ Game of Life demonstatration in particular) – whilst attempting to understand the more esoteric ideas and their theoretical underpinnings provided by Scheme and other functional languages. […]
Dyalog '22 Day 5: Looking Forward
Links to recordings from this day of the user meeting are at the bottom of this post. To begin the final day of the user meeting, Aaron Hsu presented some strategies and ways of thinking about processing data that come from text. While his specific focus is parsing APL code for the co-dfns compiler, he […]
Dyalog '22 Day 4: Celebrations
Links to recordings from this day of the user meeting are at the bottom of this post. The third day of presentations kicked off with Brian Becker running us through the gauntlet of setting up and deploying web services. Initial setup with Jarvis and Docker containers seems like an absolute breeze. However, the later stages […]
