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'''Eric Bernard Iverson''' is a co-owner of [[Jsoftware]], primary implementer of [[J]]'s [[session]] environment, and son of [[Ken Iverson]]. | '''Eric Bernard Iverson''' is a co-owner of [[Jsoftware]], primary implementer of [[J]]'s [[session]] environment, and son of [[Ken Iverson]]. Before starting Jsoftware he contributed to [[SHARP APL]] as an implementor and development manager at [[IPSA]]. | ||
{{quote|In 1966 [[Eugene McDonnell|Eugene]] worked at [[IBM]] and hired Eric Iverson as a summer student. Twelve years later Eugene left IBM to join the language and system group at I.P. Sharp Associates, managed by Eric Iverson. | |||
Two years thereafter [[Ken Iverson]] too left IBM to join I.P. Sharp, also to be managed by Eric Iverson. After that, Eugene didn’t feel so bad about his own reversal in the pecking order.<ref>[[Roger Hui|Hui, Roger]]. [https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#ebi1 "APL Quotations and Anecdotes"]. Accessed 2020-04-30.</ref>}} | |||
Iverson left his studies at [[wikipedia:Yale University|Yale University]] in 1968 to join [[I.P. Sharp Associates]], where he did implementation work on [[APL\1130]]<ref>[[Larry Breed|Breed, Larry]]. [http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10001190 How We Got To APL\1130]. [[Vector journal]] 22:3, p.68. 2006-08.</ref> and a rewrite of [[APL\360]] for small machines.<ref name="apl@50">York University. APL@50 [http://www.cse.yorku.ca/museum/apl50/program.htm Invited Speakers]. 2012. Accessed 2020-04-30.</ref> His work with [[Larry Breed]] on a shared file system for APL was demonstrated by Al Rose and Breed at [[APL70]], the second APL conference.<ref>Korn, Karl. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/987429.987434 "APL Community Meets at NASA"]. [[APL Quote-Quad]] Vol. 2, No. 2. 1970-07-10.</ref> Among other management positions, Iverson managed [[SHARP APL]] development from 1974 to 1984.<ref name="apl@50"/> | |||
Iverson left I.P. Sharp in 1990 to found Iverson Software, Inc. to provide an improved Sharp APL/PC product (APLIWIN) for Microsoft Windows. The company would later be named [[Jsoftware]] to focus on J.<ref>[[Roger Hui|Hui, Roger]]. [http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm "Remembering Ken Iverson"]. 2004-11.</ref> Iverson has worked on various IDEs for J including the original Windows-based environment, GTK- and Qt-based IDEs, and the HTML-based JHS, and is a co-developer of the Jd database management system. In 1999 he was appointed CTO of [[Adaytum Software]], a company which relied heavily on J.<ref>Faust, Anne. [http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/1999-August/001921.html Press Release - Iverson Software Inc.] J forums. 1999-08-09.</ref> | |||
== Publications == | |||
* [[IPSA '78]]: The Commercializing of APL\360 and some Plans for its Future. | |||
* [[IPSA '80]]: The Integration of APL into the Larger World of Data Processing. | |||
* SATN-46: Enhancements Provided in Update #1 to the May 1983 Release of SHARP APL. 1983-08-05. | |||
* [[Dyalog '11]] G08: [https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog11/?v=vWI_hSYjQmU Vstar: A high-performance, full-featured database system implemented in J] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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