Dyalog

Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed.

Dyalog Ltd¶

Version 13.0¶

Dyalog APL Windows Version 13.0 was made commercially available on April 1 in 32 and 64 bit versions. The AIX and Linux versions are also commercially available.

Again this year, Dyalog has kept the pricing unchanged, which means prices have now stayed the same year on year since 2006.

For more information on new features and functionality please visit www.dyalog.com/v_13-0.html or visit the documentation page for Version 13.0 on http://www.dyalog.com/documentation/13.0

World Wide Computer Programming Contest 2011¶

Now in its third year, the Programming Contest for 2011 was kicked off on May 12. The purpose of the contest is specifically to encourage students and others to investigate APL.

A fully featured copy of the latest release of Dyalog APL is made available free of charge to students, whether or not they wish to participate in the contest. Contest participants can either use the Microsoft Windows or the Linux versions of Dyalog APL, or any other version of APL as long as it is converted to the Dyalog APL platform. Tools are provided on the contest website for interchange format conversion.

A total of US$12,600 in prize money has been provided by several sponsors, including US based Fiserv, Italian based APL Italiana, Danish based SimCorp, Dyalog Ltd., as well as several anonymous individuals and companies.

The First Prize winner can look forward to US$2,500 plus a round trip travel from anywhere in the world where the winner lives to the Dyalog '11 Conference in Boston Massachusetts, USA, during October 2-5 2011, where they will receive the award in person and present the work that lead to winning the prize.

Second and third prizes will be awarded with US$1,200 and US$600 respectively and a further 20 contestants will receive US$100 each. Additionally, the people or organisations that introduce the winning students to the contest will receive the same dollar prizes – and they need not be students to make the introduction.

This year we’re making more use of the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter to post information regarding the programming contest. We also regularly update the Q&A page relating to the Contest on http://www.dyalog.com/contest_2011/qanda.html

The deadline for submission is 12:00 UTC (Noon), Sunday August 14, 2011. The winners of the three main prizes will be notified directly via e-mail and their names will be posted to www.dyalog.com on August 22nd 2011.

Dyalog ’11 – THE Array Language Event of the Year¶

Book your diaries already now for October 2-5, where the Dyalog User Conference will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

This year’s conference will take place at John Hancock Hotel & Conference Center located in the heart of Boston’s Back Bay. It is a small venue - in comparison to many traditional Conference venues – only 68 guest rooms, so the Dyalog '11 Conference will occupy virtually the entire venue. We also urge you to book accommodation when you register, as we cannot guarantee bedrooms after the expiry of Early Bird Registration. Should we run out of guest rooms there are fortunately several other hotel located in close walking distance to John Hancock.

We’re in the process of putting the conference program together, but it will follow the now traditional format with Training Courses on Sunday 2 October and Wednesday 5 October pm. We can already now see that we will have a fully packed programme of Conference sessions – presented by invited speakers, users and Dyalog developers throughout Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday a.m. Remember to pack your glad rags for the banquet dinner Tuesday 4 Oct.

Conference participants can also look forward to a very exciting conference edition of Dyalog APL containing a number of experimental features from the Dyalog Research Labs.

The Registration System is now open and there is a 10% discount for Early Bird registration. Early Bird expires on August 14th at 23:59 UK time.

For more information on the Dyalog ’11 conference programme and to register please go to http://www.dyalog.com/dyalog_11/index.html

Manpower¶

After having worked with us on a consulting basis over the last couple of years, we are delighted that Brian Becker joined Dyalog full time in February. As you may know, Brian has in particular been working on the Stand Alone Web Service (SAWS) – on which he conducted a workshop at the APL 2010 Conference in Berlin. Brian will play a key role in the new “APL tools group” that we have formed where he will take primary responsibility for the design, implementation and documentation of tools that we will be writing in APL in the years to come. Brian is based in Rochester, New York – just south of Lake Ontario. In addition to working on APL tools, Brian is also providing helpdesk support to selected US customers outside UK office hours.

Check out the hot topics and discussions on Dyalog Forums¶

To follow all new discussion on Dyalog join our forums at forums.dyalog.com – you do not need to be a user of Dyalog APL, nor do you need to register, to read the postings. The Forums are getting livelier all the time and have become our primary channel for formal and informal announcements including FAQs.