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[[File:Gitte Christensen Webinar.png|thumb|right|Gitte Christensen during a webinar on [https://dyalog.tv dyalog.tv]]]
[[File:Gitte Christensen Webinar.png|thumb|right|Gitte Christensen introducing a [[Dyalog webinar|webinar]] on [https://dyalog.tv dyalog.tv] ]]
'''Anne-Birgitte Christensen''' discovered APL in 1983. After graduating as a research biologist, she was offered 6 months of training in EDP (Electronic Data Processing). When exposed to APL she immediately fell in love and never looked back. Since then she has worked as an APL consultant, headed development and sales of commercial software based on APL and finally in 2005 ended up where she started, at [[Dyalog Ltd.]] – but this time as the CEO.
'''Anne-Birgitte Christensen''' discovered APL in 1983. Since then, she has worked as an APL programmer and consultant, headed development and sales of commercial software based on APL, and was the CEO of [[Dyalog Ltd.]]<ref>[[Dyalog Ltd]]. [https://www.dyalog.com/meet-team-dyalog.htm#Gitte Meet Team Dyalog: Gitte]. Dyalog website.</ref> until the end of 2023.
 
== History ==
After graduating as a research biologist, she was offered 6 months of training in EDP (Electronic Data Processing). Afterwards, she had to do an internship, and was placed at [[I.P. Sharp Associates]] (IPSA), where she felt very much at home. When exposed to the implicit mapping of APL's [[scalar function]]s, she immediately fell in love and never looked back at [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]].<ref name=cl>Catherine Lathwell. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w Gitte Christensen on her introduction to APL]. 2009.</ref>
[[File:Iverson_Gitte.png|thumb|left|Gitte Christensen's Iverson Award]]
She met [[Morten Kromberg]] via the IPSA Mailbox (also written in APL, before the Internet), which (as opposed to today's email protocols) allowed looking up information mail addresses. Kromberg had written a little routine that would keep track of mail addresses that had recently been added or removed. When he noticed "a lady" had joined the Copenhagen, Denmark office, he immediately sent a message welcoming Christensen, and they started communicating via email and the then available <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>)MESSAGE</syntaxhighlight> system command.<ref name=cl/>
 
After Kromberg visited Copenhagen for the second time, they became a couple,<ref name=cl/> and in 1990 they together formed Insight Systems where they combined [[SHARP APL]] work with work in [[APL*PLUS]] and [[Dyalog APL]] on PCs.
 
Backed by SimCorp and APL Italiana, Gitte Christensen became the CEO of [[Dyalog Ltd.]] in 2005 and has held the position since. In 2016, CEO Gitte Christensen and Morten Kromberg received a joint [[Iverson Award]] for the substantial leaps forward in APL technology that have been made under their leadership.<ref>''[http://www.dyalog.com/dyalogue-newsletters.htm?nl=27&a=158 2016 Iverson Award Recognises Dyalog's CEO and CXO]'', DYALOGue Newsletter 27.</ref>
 
== Publications ==
 
=== Dyalog user meetings ===
{{Main|Dyalog user meeting}}
Christensen has generally given an opening statements every year in her role as CEO, mirroring the technical direction presentation by CTO/CXO [[Morten Kromberg]].
 
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* [[Dyalog '05]]: Welcome and overview of Version 11 (with [[Morten Kromberg]])
* [[Dyalog '07]] 01: Dyalog Today and Tomorrow (Opening Session)
* [[Dyalog '08]] 01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog08/?v=SqTO9eZ4zg4 Welcome]
* Dyalog '08 07: Educating New APLers
* Dyalog '08 25: Closing Session (with [[Morten Kromberg]])
* [[Dyalog '09]] 01: Welcome and Opening Statement
* Dyalog '09 09: A New Introductory Book on APL (with Bernard Legrand)
* Dyalog '09 18: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog09/?v=HpF3vFTkr2s Selling Proposition for APL]
* [[Dyalog '11]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog11/?v=-6QOB3SdAx0 Welcome!]
* Dyalog '11 D17: See You in Elsinore for Dyalog '12 (with [[Morten Kromberg]])
* [[Dyalog '12]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog12/?v=_UzyPsqylO8 Welcome!]
* Dyalog '12 C01: [https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog12/presentations/C01_ExternalDataI Managing External Data I]
* Dyalog '12 C05: [https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog12/presentations/C01_ExternalDataI Managing External Data II] (with Bjørn Christensen)
* Dyalog '12 C09: [https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog12/presentations/C01_ExternalDataI Managing External Data III] (with [[Dan Baronet]]
* [[Dyalog '13]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog13/?v=w5zSTPHBQmI Welcome to Dyalog '13] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog13/presentations/D01_Welcome_to_Dyalog_13.pptx slides])
* [[Dyalog '14]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog14/?v=j-uQjEPPGPo Welcome] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog14/presentations/D01_Welcome.pptx slides])
* Dyalog '14 D11: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog14/?v=it1MzL9DqlY The SharpPlot Chart Wizard] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog14/presentations/D11_The_SharpPlot_Chart_Wizard.ppt slides]) (with [[Nicolas Delcros]])
* [[Dyalog '15]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog15/?v=pL8OQIR5cB4 Welcome to Dyalog '15] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog15/presentations/D01_Welcome_to_Dyalog15.pdf slides])
* [[Dyalog '16]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog16/?v=KOgriSYlcDM Welcome to Dyalog '16] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog16/presentations/D01_Welcome.pdf slides])
* Dyalog '16 L11: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog16/?v=kQ1ogbIW-jg 50 Years of APL]
* Dyalog '16 TP04: Data Visualisation (with [[John Daintree]], Nicolas Delcros, and [[Adám Brudzewsky]])
* [[Dyalog '17]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog17/?v=bFxeynFBgb4 Welcome to Dyalog '17] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog17/presentations/D01_Welcome.pdf slides])
* [[Dyalog '18]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog18/?v=gt7894I4We0 Welcome to Dyalog '18] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog18/presentations/D01_Welcome.pdf slides])
* [[Dyalog '19]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog19/?v=-d_PJfXR2Hk Welcome to Dyalog '19] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog19/presentations/D01_Welcome_to_Dyalog19.pdf slides])
* [[Dyalog '20]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog20/?v=LuCb27ra8LI Welcome to Dyalog '20] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog20/presentations/D01_Welcome_to_Dyalog20.pdf slides])
* [[Dyalog '21]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog21/?v=_8Ary1ypzlk Welcome to Dyalog '21] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog21/presentations/D01_Welcome_to_Dyalog21.pdf slides])
* [[Dyalog '22]] D01: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog22/?v=xmU-tk6DC1g Welcome to Dyalog '22] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog22/presentations/D01_Welcome_to_Dyalog22.pdf slides]) (with Stine Kromberg)
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=== Other talks ===
* [[APL Campfire]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAu03M5fLck 1 August 2021]
* [[Array Cast]]: [https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode12-gitte-christensen Gitte Christensen of Dyalog Ltd.]
 
== References ==
<references/>


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Latest revision as of 09:51, 10 September 2024

Gitte Christensen introducing a webinar on dyalog.tv

Anne-Birgitte Christensen discovered APL in 1983. Since then, she has worked as an APL programmer and consultant, headed development and sales of commercial software based on APL, and was the CEO of Dyalog Ltd.[1] until the end of 2023.

History

After graduating as a research biologist, she was offered 6 months of training in EDP (Electronic Data Processing). Afterwards, she had to do an internship, and was placed at I.P. Sharp Associates (IPSA), where she felt very much at home. When exposed to the implicit mapping of APL's scalar functions, she immediately fell in love and never looked back at Fortran.[2]

Gitte Christensen's Iverson Award

She met Morten Kromberg via the IPSA Mailbox (also written in APL, before the Internet), which (as opposed to today's email protocols) allowed looking up information mail addresses. Kromberg had written a little routine that would keep track of mail addresses that had recently been added or removed. When he noticed "a lady" had joined the Copenhagen, Denmark office, he immediately sent a message welcoming Christensen, and they started communicating via email and the then available )MESSAGE system command.[2]

After Kromberg visited Copenhagen for the second time, they became a couple,[2] and in 1990 they together formed Insight Systems where they combined SHARP APL work with work in APL*PLUS and Dyalog APL on PCs.

Backed by SimCorp and APL Italiana, Gitte Christensen became the CEO of Dyalog Ltd. in 2005 and has held the position since. In 2016, CEO Gitte Christensen and Morten Kromberg received a joint Iverson Award for the substantial leaps forward in APL technology that have been made under their leadership.[3]

Publications

Dyalog user meetings

Main article: Dyalog user meeting

Christensen has generally given an opening statements every year in her role as CEO, mirroring the technical direction presentation by CTO/CXO Morten Kromberg.

Other talks

References

  1. ↑ Dyalog Ltd. Meet Team Dyalog: Gitte. Dyalog website.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Catherine Lathwell. Gitte Christensen on her introduction to APL. 2009.
  3. ↑ 2016 Iverson Award Recognises Dyalog's CEO and CXO, DYALOGue Newsletter 27.


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