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[[File:Gitte Christensen Webinar.png|thumb|right|Gitte Christensen introducing a [[Dyalog webinar|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 | '''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 is currently the CEO of [[Dyalog Ltd.]]<ref>[[Dyalog Ltd]]. [https://www.dyalog.com/meet-team-dyalog.htm#Gitte Meet Team Dyalog: Gitte]. Dyalog website.</ref> | ||
== 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]] | [[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 <source lang=apl inline>)MESSAGE</source> system command.<ref name=cl/> | |||
She met [[Morten Kromberg]] via the IPSA Mailbox (also written in APL, before the Internet). | |||
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> | 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> | ||