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 […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Monday
This year at the user meeting we have 106 attendees and a further 15 partners and guests, from 15 different countries worldwide. Today was the first day of presentations and the day the user meeting opened formally. Today also saw the arrival of the motion platform for the Viking challenge tomorrow and that’s been causing a lot of interest […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Sunday
It was a gloriously sunny day in Glasgow today. The Golden Jubilee Hotel overlooks the River Clyde and this was the view at sunrise: The day began with delegate registration, with Karen and Fiona manning the registration desk throughout the day. To mark Dyalog at 50, Geoff also presented a desk loaded with memorabilia from the […]
