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Robert (Bob) Bernecky is a Canadian computer scientist notable as a designer and implementer of APL. His APL career started at [[I.P. Sharp Associates|IPSA]] in 1971.
Robert (Bob) Bernecky is a Canadian computer scientist notable as a designer and implementer of APL. His APL career started at [[I.P. Sharp Associates|IPSA]] in 1971.


Bernecky's first published APL work concerned with speeding up the iota and epsilon ([[index-of]] and [[membership]]) [[primitives functions]] by orders of magnitude. While at IPSA, he was a colleague of [[Roger Hui]], Dick Lathwell, [[Gene McDonnell]], [[Roger Moore]], [[Arthur Whitney]], and APL's inventor [[Ken Iverson]]. He continued on after IPSA was acquired by Reuters on 1987-04-01, and left Reuters in 1990 to found Snake Island Research. He works on APL compiler and parallel-processing technology to this day.
Bernecky's first published APL work concerned with speeding up the iota and epsilon ([[index-of]] and [[membership]]) [[primitive function]]s by orders of magnitude. While at IPSA, he was a colleague of [[Roger Hui]], Dick Lathwell, [[Gene McDonnell]], [[Roger Moore]], [[Arthur Whitney]], and APL's inventor [[Ken Iverson]]. He continued on after IPSA was acquired by Reuters on 1987-04-01, and left Reuters in 1990 to found Snake Island Research. He works on APL compiler and parallel-processing technology to this day.


Bernecky holds the Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
Bernecky holds the Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto.
== Publications ==
=== Dyalog user meetings ===
* [[Dyalog '09]] 30: Amazing Performance Looms ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog09/presentations/30_Bernecky_Performance materials])
* [[Dyalog '11]] G10: Index Vector Scalarization in High-Performance Array Computation ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog11/presentations/G10_index_vector_scalarisation materials])
* [[Dyalog '12]] U28: The Three Beaars: Basically, Every Array Allocation Reduces Speed ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog12/presentations/U28_ThreeBeaars materials])
* [[Dyalog '15]] U10: Abstract Expressionism for Parallel Performance ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog15/presentations/U10_Abstract_Expressionism_for_Parallel_Performance.pdf slides])
* [[Dyalog '16]] U08: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog16/?v=G2g13YKjWes A Compendium of SIMD Boolean Array Algorithms in APL] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog16/presentations/U08_SIMD_Boolean_Array_Algorithms_slides.pdf slides], [https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog16/presentations/U08_SIMD_Boolean_Array_Algorithms_handouts.pdf handouts])
* [[Dyalog '16]] L03: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog16/?v=1N_oYD-ZkX8 Zoo Story: How the I.P. Sharp APL Development Group Got its Name] ([https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog16/presentations/L03_Zoo_Story.pdf slides])
== External links ==
== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bernecky Wikipedia]
* [[wikipedia:Robert_Bernecky|Wikipedia]]
* [https://www.snakeisland.com/ Snake Island Research website]
* [https://www.snakeisland.com/ Snake Island Research website]
{{APL community}}[[Category:People|Bernecky]]
{{APL community}}[[Category:People|Bernecky]]

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