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SIGAPL Special Interest Group for Array Programming Languages

Back Up 5.0. SIGAPL Special Interest Group for Array Programming Languages. SIGAPL Mission. Foster a culture of A rray P rogramming L anguages and make it possible for more people to approach and use this technology.

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SIGAPL Special Interest Group for Array Programming Languages

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  1. Back Up 5.0 SIGAPL Special Interest Group for Array Programming Languages

  2. SIGAPL Mission • Foster a culture of Array Programming Languages and make it possible for more people to approach and use this technology. • Extend the SIGAPL interest to all the languages that perform solid array manipulation techniques, including APL, J, K, A+, Matlab, Octave, Gauss, NumPy (Numeric Python) and IDL (Interactive Data Language), etc.

  3. SIGAPL Executive Committee Chairman: Dr. Guy R. Larocque Vice-Chairman: Robert G. Brown Secretary/Treasurer: Dr. Steven H. Rogers APL Quote Quad Editor: Dr. Manuel Alfonseca Members at Large: Lynne C. Shaw James Korn Devon McCormick

  4. SIGAPL Chronology of Eventsrecent history • slate of officers elected (July 2005) • SGB EC communicates with Chairman Antonio Annibali (Antonio is unresponsive), SGB ECdoes not communicate with rest of SIGAPL Executive Committee until it is too late (leadership is questioned; SIGAPL is placed in transition February 2006). • Guy Larocque appointed to lead transition. SIGAPL Strategic Plan written. • Small SIG Advisor, Janice Sipior, reports “… I am extremely happy to see the progress you're making! It is evident that you are a core group of passionate members. …” (April 2006) • Antonio resigns. Guy Larocque assumes chair. (February 2007).

  5. SIGAPL Chronology of Eventscontinued • Small SIG Advisor fails to report complete SIGAPL status to SGB EC (motion to dissolve SIGAPL brought by SGB EC Feb. 2007). • dissolution notice published in April 2007 issue of CACM. SIGAPL membership successfully challenges dissolution delaying SGB EC decision by 6 months (April 2007). • SIGAPL Status Update and Strategic Plan (July 2007) communicated to SGB EC. Joe Konstan reported “Thank you; I'll forward this report to the SGB EC, and we'll review it next week at our pre-SGB meeting conference call. I'm delighted to see such strong progress.” • SIGAPL Status Update and Strategic Plan (December 2007) communicated to SGB EC and discussed with V.Hanson and B. Walker (January 2008).

  6. SIGAPL 2006/2007 Business Plansummary • Get APL Quote Quad back on schedule and publish backlog issues. • Update the SIGAPL web site. • Reinstate the annual APL conference and the presentation of the Kenneth E. Iverson award. • Develop a volunteer effort plan. • Keep SIGAPL members informed on a regular basis. • Conduct a membership survey. • Return SIG to viability.

  7. SIGAPL Accomplishments(publications) • Five issues of APL Quote Quad (the SIGAPL newsletter) were published.* Two more are in production. Publication is back on a quarterly schedule. • The SIGAPL Executive Committee met on a regular basis (a minimum of bi-monthly). • A Letter to the Members was published bi-monthly. * note: only 2 issues were published in the 4 years prior

  8. SIGAPL Accomplishments(conferences) APL2007: • Organized jointly with OOPSLA in Montreal and held in October 2007. (Kenneth E. Iverson award presented.). Strong academic focus*. • The APL vendors were contacted to get them involved. They participated in APL2007. • Introductory tutorials were provided at APL2007. Other conference activities in 2007: • SIGAPL was represented at the annual meetings of Dyalog APL and APL2000 and the Minnowbrook APL Implementer’s workshop. • *Presentations on the integration of object oriented languages features in APL.

  9. SIGAPL Accomplishments(community) • The SIGAPL web site was continuously updated and continues to be updated. SIGAPL will host the Waterloo archives, an APL community resource. • A coordinator for volunteer efforts was recruited and volunteer plans put in place. • Contacts with other Array Programming Languages user groups were established. • A membership survey was conducted and results published. • The Kenneth E. Iverson Award was relaunched.

  10. SIGAPL Consolidation with Another SIG? • Guy Larocque discussed this with Kathleen Fisher, Chair of SIGPlan. The possible merger only raised questions, not answered them. Neither person saw a fit. • Feedback of SIGAPL membership through special panel at APL2007 and responses challenging dissolution indicates the membership does not want this. • It is not clear that there would be any benefit.

  11. SIGAPL Summary • This is not your SIGAPL of the period prior to April 2006, but it is for the period since: • member benefits (conferences/publications/Kenneth E. Iverson award, etc.) are back on track. • future plans have been laid and are in process (web site, community outreach, volunteer development, etc.) • We can’t speak for the past, but we can for the future. Thank you in advance for your vote of confidence (andagainst dissolution).

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