Snapshot blog from the last day at Dyalog’16 in Glasgow
#Dyalog16 – Vibeke Ulmann So we have come to the last blog from this year’s Dyalog User Conference. This is going to be a short one – as I can’t possibly do justice in words to some of the presentations we had Thursday morning. Gitte Christensen started off the morning by giving us a run […]
APL50 – celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the APL language
#Dyalog16 – Vibeke Ulmann Wednesday 12th October was dedicated to celebrating the 50th Anniversary of APL becoming an interactive programming language. And what day we had. This blog will aim to give you a few impressions from what turned out to be a ‘tour the force’, with entertaining, amusing, thought provoking, presentations covering the early […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Thursday
Today was the last day of the user meeting, a further half-day celebrating 50 years of APL, with presentations both looking back at the history of APL from its beginnings to the present day, and looking forward to the future and how it can reach new audiences. In that vein, Roberto Minervini, a teacher from […]
Winning the APL Programming Contest – Finance Category
#Dyalog16 – Vibeke Ulmann Today we had the third of the 3 grand prize winner presentations. Zack Batik is 23 years old and is in his second year studying for an undergraduate in Maths and Economics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. See Zack’s profile here: http://www.dyalog.com/news/112/420/2016-APL-Programming-Contest-Winners.htm Until about 18 months ago […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Wednesday
Today we started to celebrate APL’s 50 year history, looking at how it has developed since IBM created the first clear workspace on 27 November 1966, and how it will continue to develop in the future. There was audience participation – prior to lunch, everyone joined in a rendition of APL Blossom Time. Behind the scenes the day […]
Winning the APL Programming Contest – Bioinformatics Category
#Dyalog16 – Vibeke Ulmann Today we had the second of the 3 grand prize winner presentations. Marinus Oosters is 25 years old and is in his second year studying for a Masters in Computer Science at the University of Utrecht. See Marinus’s profile here: http://www.dyalog.com/news/112/420/2016-APL-Programming-Contest-Winners.htm Until about 2 years ago, Marinus had never heard about […]
Cooking with Dyalog – Kai Jaeger (APL Consultant) and Stephen Taylor (Equiniti Claybrook)
#Dyalog16 – Vibeke Ulmann The presentation today was centred around the fact that many software programmers – and especially those who programme in Dyalog APL – have been involved in their applications for many years. Hence, they have not had to consider how to get from ‘beautiful code’ to a scenario where they have to […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Tuesday
Last night’s whisky and chocolate tasting Last night’s dinner ended with a talk from Glengoyne, a highland distillery based fourteen miles north of Glasgow. We were presented with three different whiskies in their range, and a talk explaining how they were produced and how that gave them their different flavours. They were served with single origin chocolate […]
Winning the APL Programming Contest – General Computing Category
#Dyalog’16 – Vibeke Ulmann Today we had the first of the 3 grand prize winner presentations. Joshua David is 19 years old and is in his second year studying Computer Science at the University of Scranton. He is also taking a minor in Philosophy – and he’s been an intern with Carlisle Group where the […]
The Calm before Stormwind – Tomas Gustafsson
#Dyalog16 – Vibeke Ulmann As announced earlier – and iterated many times by yours truly, to media and other interested parties, because it is SOOOOOOO exciting – this year, the Viking Challenge is to drive a speed boat in the Stormwind Simulator sitting in a 6DOF (6 degree of freedom) motion platform from Simotion in […]
