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Initial APL work was carried out at the [[wikipedia:Thomas J. Watson Research Center|Thomas J. Watson Research Center]] in [[wikipedia:Yorktown Heights, New York|Yorktown Heights, New York]]. [[Adin Falkoff]] had worked there since 1955, and [[Ken Iverson]] joined (on the advice of former teaching assistant [[wikipedia:Fred Brooks|Fred Brooks]]) in 1960. The group hired [[Larry Breed]] in 1962 and [[Dick Lathwell]] in 1966. Breed and Lathwell collaborated with [[wikipedia:Stanford University|Stanford University]] students [[Phil Abrams]] and [[Roger Moore]], who were never directly hired by IBM, in the implementation of [[IVSYS/7090]] and [[APL\360]] respectively. [[Jim Brown]], who had learned about APL at another IBM job started in 1965 and then left for [[Syracuse University]], worked at Watson Research beginning in 1969, at Yorktown over the summer and remotely from Syracuse while he worked on his Ph.D.<ref>[[Jim Brown]]. [https://old.aplwiki.com/OnAPLsHistory?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=JimBrownsPersonalHistoryOf_APL_20170405.pdf A Personal History of APL]. Updated 2017-04-05.</ref>