APL Toronto Meetup (In Person)

IMPORTANT! This will be an in person event located in Downtown Toronto, Canada. Please do not register if you are not attending in person. This event will not be live streamed or have a virtual component. Proof of vaccinations and masks will be required.

There will be three speakers / talks at this event. See details below.

After the meetup, for those that are comfortable, we will head to a restaurant for a social where masks will not be required while eating or drinking.

After Meetup Social Details:
Where: Pogue Mahone Pub & Kitchen
When: 8:30 PM - Midnight

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Talk Summaries:
Talk 1: A History of APL in Toronto, Lib Gibson
Talk 2: A Look at Array Languages, Conor Hoekstra
Talk 3: Seven Deployments in 7x5 Minutes, Morten Kromberg

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Talk 1: A History of APL in Toronto

Abstract: Toronto was the beating heart of APL innovation in the world – the centre from which APL and other array languages circulated around the world. Lib will walk you down memory lane to meet key players in the birth and popularization of APL and the crucial role played by I.P. Sharp from its Toronto headquarters. Join her in hearing new stories and revisiting some old ones.
Speaker: Lib Gibson, Retired / Former CEO / Advisor to CEOs / IPSA Alum & More ⬇
Bio: After a Masters in Math, Lib found her way to I.P. Sharp Associates, where she worked for almost 20 years. She started in Ottawa and opened IPSA’s Western Canada branches and the subsidiary in Belgium before coming to Toronto, where she ultimately ran the Software Business Unit. After Reuters’ acquisition of IPSA, Lib was CEO of a (short-lived) mobile-data applications development start-up in the late 80s. In the 90s, she led teams that launched the Sympatico Internet service and the Globe and Mail web applications. In the aughts, she was the CEO of Bell Globemedia Interactive, Canada’s largest Internet media company. Subsequently she was a strategic advisor to the CEO of BCE and sat on several corporate boards before her retirement in 2021.

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Talk 2: A Look at Array Languages

Abstract: This talk will take a look at a single simple programming problem and solutions to it in different array languages (APL, BQN & J). It will highlight some of the important language features in array languages and show how the languages differ.
Speaker: Conor Hoekstra, Research Scientist, NVIDIA
Bio: Conor is a programming language enthusiast, avid array language fan and host of ArrayCast. Longer bio at https://www.linkedin.com/in/conorhoekstra/

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Talk 3: Seven Deployments in 7x5 Minutes

Abstract: In the space of half an hour, Morten will demonstrate how to deploy the same simple APL application in a variety of different ways, from use in an interactive APL session via desktop GUI applications to a containerised web service and a web server.
Speaker: Morten Kromberg, CTO, Dyalog
Bio: Morten has been an APL developer for more that 40 years. Since 2005, he has been the CTO of Dyalog Ltd. Longer bio at https://www.dyalog.com/blog/about-the-cto/