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APL2003: Stretching the Mind!

Vector 19:2, page 6

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FCRC: APL2003 Call For Papers

SIGAPL is pleased to announce that APL2003 will be held in San Diego, California from Wednesday June 11 through Saturday June 14, 2003. This year we will participate in the 2003 Federated Computing Research Conference.

FCRC is an umbrella for over a dozen ACM-sponsored conferences. Other FCRC events span June 7-14, 2003. Quoting from the FCRC Web page:

The Federated Computer Research Conference (FCRC) assembles a spectrum of affiliated research conferences and workshops into a week long coordinated meeting held at a common time in a common place. This model retains the advantages of the smaller conferences, while at the same time, facilitates communication among researchers in different fields in computer science and engineering. Mornings of FCRC week will begin with joint plenary talks on topics of broad appeal to the computing research community.

FCRC offers a broad canvas for the exchange of ideas, development experiences, and tools. Compare yours to the world! If you have an application, this is the place to compare notes with others who have done it in other ways, and bring their own perspectives and experience.

APL2003 provides us with the opportunity to showcase APL and APL applications to our professional peers; we believe a number of the other conferences at FCRC offer exceptional opportunity to exchange knowledge and ideas with our professional peers:

  • EC'03: The Fourth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
  • MOD/PODS: ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2003 Conference
  • PLDI: ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
  • PPoPP: ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
  • PADS: Parallel and Distributed Simulation Workshop
  • SPAA: ACM Annual Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

If you want to see how APL really measures up, contribute your best experience, and see how others really react. Serve up the best you can at the food court of ideas from the APL kitchen.

The FCRC web site is located at http://www.acm.org/fcrc.

The SIGAPL conference committee invites you to submit papers for review on

  • applications
  • techniques
  • education
  • history
  • language design and enhancement

and other topics related to APL, A+, J, K, Matlab, Mathematica, Nial, S-Plus and other array programming languages. The users and advocates of different language that are heavily oriented toward array programming have many common values. APL2003 can be an event where we come together and face the future.

Themes you may wish to explore include (but are not limited to) are the following:

  • Practical applications using arrays
  • Interfaces between APL and other languages
  • Array-based programming in the classroom
  • GUI Programming using array-based languages
  • APL on various platforms (Windows, Unix, Pocket PC)
  • Similarities and difference among array programming languages

Please submit a 1-page abstract by January 31, 2003. Final drafts for review are due by March 1, 2003. We also invite those interested in preparing workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, panel discussions and other items of interest to contact Kevin Weaver, program chair:

Kevin Weaver · [address omitted]
[telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address omitted]