British APL Association News

Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed. Read it in the PDF of the issue, page 11

At the November committee meeting we heard that Jonathan Barman is willing to take over from Adrian Smith as editor of Vector. He will need no introduction to many of you as he has been prominent in the APL community for a long time, for many years with Cocking & Drury and now with his own consultancy.

He has been a member of the Vector working group from the beginning and used to edit the technical section with David Ziemann until Vol. 4. We are still looking for a new honorary secretary for the association, and I would welcome enquiries from anyone who would like to know what they would be letting themselves in for before deciding whether they would be willing to go for it.

Outstanding Achievement Award¶

Please send your nominations for this award to me, Graham Parkhouse, by 30th April 1990. The first mention of this award is in Vector Vol. 3 No. 4 where it states "any person or group that has achieved some outstanding task with or for APL or performed some outstanding service to the APL community or in the promotion of APL to the non-APL world may be a suitable candidate". The prize of a gilded glass apple, held for the year, and cheques for £500 have been won by John Scholes in 1988 for the development of Dyalog APL and jointly by Delia Hickson and Graeme Davison in 1989 for the development of AIMS, British Airways' suite of management information software.

Who will it be in 1990? Each nomination should include a citation and reasons why the achievement is outstanding in no more than one A4 page of ordinary type, signed by two members of the British APL Association. Nominations will be judged by a sub-committee and the result announced at the AGM on Friday 8th June 1990.

The sub-committee reserves the right not to make an award should the nominations not be considered to be sufficiently outstanding.