IPSA conferences

I.P. Sharp Associates held a series of conferences in Toronto for APL programmers beginning in 1978. These user meetings were motivated in part by the lack of official 1977 and 1978 APL conferences, and the first was the only major APL conference held that year, while others were held in addition to APL conferences and possibly STSC conferences in the same year. Proceedings were published by IPSA for the 1978, 1980, and 1982 conferences, with the name "APL Users Meeting".

1978

 * The Evolution of Commercial APL Time-Sharing Systems. I. P. Sharp.
 * A Data Communications System for the APL User. R. D. Moore.
 * The Commercializing of APL\360 and some Plans for its Future. E. B. Iverson.
 * The Automated Inventory System. J. J. Fuller.
 * Corporate Financial Planning - is EDP Ready? T. J. Sakach.
 * Calculus in APL. Why? J. W. England.
 * APL at Sun Life of Canada. S. Trask.
 * APL and the Wheel. N. C. Hershfield.
 * Administration Applications For APL. D. J. Thomson.
 * Drafting with Computer Aided Graphics. B. P. Atutis.
 * APL Graphics for Trend Analysis and Planning. V. Hill.
 * Graphics for the Non-technical User. R. Kemble.
 * An Interactive Hardcopy Graphics Package. A. Harrison.
 * Application of APL Modeling in a Petroleum Distribution Network. E. C. Payne.
 * Financial Modelling: Keys to Successful Implementation. G. J. Beagle.
 * Using APL to Help Make Decisions in a Hurry. S. Graham.
 * Technical and Financial Evaluation of Capital Projects - a Lender’s Perspective. R. A. Boulay.
 * Financial Planning in International Banking. W. L. Bettes.
 * Forecasting European Air Travel. B. P. Loughran.
 * Variations on the Projection Function and their Application to the Analysis of Variance. R. M. Heiberger.
 * APL Standards and Documentation Within an Evolutionary Environment. A. Harrison.
 * Programming Style in APL (web). K. E. Iverson.
 * The Use of APL in Teaching Computer Science. L. Snyder.
 * The Architectural Elegance of Crystals Made Clear By APL. D. B. McIntyre.
 * Time-Sharing Information Management Service. R. D. Wilson.
 * Migration to an In-House System. M. Elliott.
 * SHARP APL as a Distributed Program Product. R. H. Lathwell.
 * Cash Flow Planning System for an Integrated Oil Company in a Developing Country. K. M. Wiig.
 * Experience with Direct Definition One-liners in Writing APL Applications. D. B. McIntyre.
 * Generalized Single Plant Freight Cost Model. L. Lapide.
 * APL Programming in a Dynamic Planning Environment. G. Koutsouros.
 * Application of Polynomial Distributed Lag to “Social and Personal Costs of Unemployment”. N. C. MacLeod.

1980

 * The APL User Community - Its Roots. Garth H. Foster.
 * The Integration of APL into the Larger World of Data Processing. Eric B. Iverson.
 * APL Technology: Language Architecture, System Concepts, and Application Methodology. Adin D. Falkoff.
 * Cost Management in a Growing APL Department. Barry M. Linton.
 * Managing APL Resources at Upjohn. Richard J. Busman.
 * The Growth and Future of APL at Fireman's Fund. Eugene R. Mannacio.
 * Monitoring the Listed Stock Option. Howard M. McLean.
 * A Financial Model for Acquisition Analysis. Don N. Hughes.
 * An APL Model as an Aid to Systems Analysis. Stuart Fraser.
 * The Efficient Use of APL in an EDP Environment: A Real Time Financial Inventory Control System. Adrian A. J. Browne and Sandra L. Browne.
 * FINAPL - The Development of a Financial Dialect of APL. Geoff Kemmish.
 * The Application of APL to Air Traffic Forecasting. Josef T. Sachs.
 * APL - The Scheduler's Tool. Daneda K. Cullen.
 * Using the CAB Airline Data Base in Security Analysis. Edmund S. Greenslet.
 * Use of Teles for Financial Planning and Reporting. Roger W. Shaw.
 * International Networks Enhance Spares Support Logistics. Wayne Porter Keyes.
 * Use of Communicating Word Processors in Networks. Marvin W. Gaines, Jr..
 * Private Networking in a Multinational. Irene P. Harford.
 * An Interactive Aid to Planning in the Food Industry. Ted W. Burnside.
 * New Dimensions in Economic Forecasting. James Lymburner.
 * A Comprehensive System for Planning Economics. Gregory T. George.
 * Scheduling Production with the Dynamic Lot Size Package: Approach and Method. Andreas Buch.
 * A Personnel Records and Information System. Chris Baron.
 * APL and Record Keeping for Defined Benefit Plans. Benson H. Kreutziger.
 * CAR: The Marriage of Micrographics and Magnetics. Bob Campbell.
 * SHARP APL Syracuse. Dana E. Cartwright and Phyllis A. Kent.
 * The APL Time-Sharing Development in Mexico. Daniel G. Olivares.
 * What is Sybron and Does it Really Need In-House APL? Lynne C. Shaw.
 * Dome SHARP APL - Planning and Achieving Growth. Ernst Goetze.
 * The Mythical Man Month Revisited: Building a Decision Support System in APL. Peter G. W. Keen and Thomas J. Gambino.
 * Development of a Data Based Management Information System for Planning and Control. Eric S. Hogg.
 * Linking Planning Systems to Real Life Operations. Peter H. S. Redwood.
 * Decision Support Systems: the Power and Problems of APL. Maurice Elliott.
 * Private Data Bases in the Financial Sector. Carlos P. Naudon.
 * Corporate Decision-Making & Data Base Applications. Eike W. Kaiser.
 * Legi-Slate Bill and Vote Tracking Service. Curtiss C. Grove.
 * Pilot Rates of Pay - A Data Base Application. Jill Kastris.
 * A Derivative Algorithm for APL. D. M. DeTurck and D. L. Orth.
 * Optimization of APL Code. Roy A. Sykes, Jr..
 * Making APL Programmers More Productive. Robert C. Metzger.
 * Programmer Productivity Gains Through Emphasis of Fundamentals. Jon McGrew.
 * An Information System for Fleet Management. George A. Clark.
 * Using APL for the Quebec 1980 Referendum. Arthur T. Shapiro.
 * An APL Prototype of a Management and Control System for a Semiconductor Fabrication Facility. Hassan Gomma and Douglas Scott.
 * The European Refiners' Margin. J. A. Nasmyth.
 * COALMOD: A Financial Analysis and Policy Simulation Model for Coal Mining Developments. Frank C. Basham and Philippe Monier.
 * Some Recent Developments in Energy Demand Modelling. G. C. Watkins.
 * An APL Corporate Model for an Electric Utility Corporation. Charles O. Manahan.
 * APL in a Liberal Arts College. Donald B. McIntyre.
 * Teaching APL in an Academic Environment. Gillian Wade.
 * APL in the Classroom. E. M. Edwards.
 * The Inductive Method of Introducing APL (web). Kenneth E. Iverson.
 * Data Manipulation with MAGIC. David A. Keith.
 * An Introduction to SUPERPLOT. Brian W. Oliver.
 * Operators and Enclosed Arrays (web). Robert Bernecky and Kenneth E. Iverson.
 * Corporate Communications Using the SHARP APL Mailbox. Leslie H. Goldsmith.
 * Commercial Applications for Event Handling. Eugene E. McDonnell.
 * Production Simulations in APL. Charles L. Miller and Andrew North.
 * Preparing to Forecast. Dinos Appla.
 * SHARP APL Multiprocessing and Shared Variables. Richard H. Lathwell.
 * MABRA: A Package for Record Handling Systems. Hugh Hyndman.
 * How the Package Data-Type has Affected Programming. Paul Berry.