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| Nov 21 || Zbigniew "Ziggy" Stachniak<ref>Computing historian, associate professor of computer science at York University in Toronto, and author of [https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Inventing_the_PC/cyWOA2FED7EC?hl=en Inventing the PC].</ref>, [[CoSy|Bob Armstrong]] || Timeline leading to [[MCM/70]]: [[wikipedia:Mers Kutt|Mers Kutt]], [[York APL]], [[wikipedia:Intel 8008|Intel 8008]], [[APL '73]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaQdzKnOxJE speed of <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>0.7÷⍳255</syntaxhighlight>], battery-operation, European tour and selling [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxXxAxxL5I the computer as a personal calculator], users of MCM/70, [[IBM]] possible "inspiration" to create the [[APL 5100|IBM 5100]], the display technology, the applications libraries including [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YitUfJySYz4 games], [https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/ York University Computer Museum], using APL for arts, [https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/mcm70e the MCM/70 emulator]. || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA9XymS-vho&list=PLYKQVqyrAEj91hZHbJiWOENHZP4JT8VFv 1:09:21] | | Nov 21 || Zbigniew "Ziggy" Stachniak<ref>Computing historian, associate professor of computer science at York University in Toronto, and author of [https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Inventing_the_PC/cyWOA2FED7EC?hl=en Inventing the PC].</ref>, [[CoSy|Bob Armstrong]] || Timeline leading to [[MCM/70]]: [[wikipedia:Mers Kutt|Mers Kutt]], [[York APL]], [[wikipedia:Intel 8008|Intel 8008]], [[APL '73]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaQdzKnOxJE speed of <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>0.7÷⍳255</syntaxhighlight>], battery-operation, European tour and selling [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxXxAxxL5I the computer as a personal calculator], users of MCM/70, [[IBM]] possible "inspiration" to create the [[APL 5100|IBM 5100]], the display technology, the applications libraries including [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YitUfJySYz4 games], [https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/ York University Computer Museum], using APL for arts, [https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/mcm70e the MCM/70 emulator]. || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA9XymS-vho&list=PLYKQVqyrAEj91hZHbJiWOENHZP4JT8VFv 1:09:21] | ||
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| Dec 19 || [[Charles Brenner]] || [[Larry Breed]], [[ | | Dec 19 || [[Charles Brenner]] || [[Larry Breed]], [[Roger Moore]], [[IBM]] at [[Watson Research Center|Yorktown Heights]], [[Ken Iverson]]'s [[A Programming Language]], [[Adin Falkoff]], [[Eugene McDonnell]], [[APL\360]], implementing (high-rank) [[Transpose]] and [[Rotate]] with APL models, [[wikipedia:Imlac PDS-1|Imlac]], [[APL\1130]], the [[wikipedia:modem|modem]] precursor, generating poetry by sampling trigrams, [[STSC]], [[Roy Sykes]], optimised transpose of [[Boolean]] arrays, [[Bob Bernecky]], [[wikipedia:John Gilmore (activist)|John Gilmore]], [[control structure]]s, [[APL00|APL2000]], [[John Scholes]], [[Roger Hui]], [[IPSA]], [[dfns.dws]], [[wikipedia:IBM 650|IBM 650]], uses of APL, forensic mathematics, [[Adrian Smith]] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmEtMrBikT0&list=PLYKQVqyrAEj91hZHbJiWOENHZP4JT8VFv 1:13:16] | ||
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| Mar 12 || Norman Thomson<ref>Author of ''APL Programs for the Mathematics Classroom'' and co-author, with R. Polivka of ''APL2 in Depth''.</ref> || | | Mar 12 || Norman Thomson<ref>Author of ''APL Programs for the Mathematics Classroom'' and co-author, with R. Polivka of ''APL2 in Depth''.</ref> || [[IBM]] in Hursley, use of computers, [[wikipedia:PL/I|PL/I]], language of reasoning, teaching APL, catergories of APL users, the importance of grasping the concept of [[rank]], [[APL2]], anecdotes from [[APL conference]]s, [[wikipedia:Eigenvalues_and_eigenvectors|Eigen analysis]], [[J]] demonstration of computing and using Eigen values || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPujK-GvHGQ&list=PLYKQVqyrAEj91hZHbJiWOENHZP4JT8VFv 1:21:52] | ||
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