APL2001

An Arrays Odyssey

June 25-28, 2001
Yale University
New Haven, CT
U.S.A.

ACM/SIGAPL is pleased to announce that APL2001, the annual international conference on APL and other array programming languages, such as A, A+, J, K, Matlab, Mathematica, and Nial, will be held June 25-28, 2001. The theme is An Arrays Odyssey to celebrate our launch into the multi-dimensional space of the new millennium. An international committee headed by NY/SIGAPL is planning the conference.

The conference will be held at Yale University, which is celebrating its 300th anniversary. Yale has made important contributions to the development of APL, both directly and indirectly through its graduates and faculty. We hope to make the conference compact and affordable. Lodging will be available in new high quality student housing where up to 180 of our participants will be able to stay. Rooms will also be reserved at local hotels. Meals will be held in one of the college dining halls. Presentations will be made in the facilities of the department of engineering.

New Haven, Connecticut is located on Long Island Sound within an hour and a half from major international airports in New York City and Hartford, CT. Train and limo service is available. The University is a short taxi ride from the train station and limo depot. Besides Yale’s excellent museums, there are a number of tourist sites ranging from dinosaur footprints to colonial whaling ships within easy reach.

Call for Papers
The committee invites you to submit technical papers for review on applications, techniques, education, language design and enhancement, and related topics for array programming languages. Papers will be due on March 5, 2001. You may submit an optional abstract before that date.

Please contact us if you need to request an extension of this deadline. Reviewers will be paying attention to content only. Stylistic formatting is not required until submission for publication. We request that you submit your paper electronically (preferably in text, Word or Latex format) by e-mailing it to Lynne Shaw, Program Chair, at shaw@acm.org. You may mail submissions to

    NY/SIGAPL
    P.O. Box 2697
    New York, NY 10163-2697
    U.S.A.
if you include a copy of your paper on a 3.5" diskette.

Among the themes you may wish to explore (but are not limited to) are the following:

  • How does array-oriented programming compare to traditional scalar-oriented programming using languages such as C, C++, Basic, and Fortran? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the two approaches?
  • What extensions to object-oriented or other languages elegantly handle arrays?
  • What problems are well suited to array-based solutions?
  • How are arrays used for practical solutions?
We also invite those interested in preparing workshops, tutorials, panel discussions, and other items of interest to contact Lynne Shaw, Program Chair, at shaw@acm.org. Other questions may be addressed to Ed Shaw, Conference Chair, at eshaw@eventra.com, and Devon McCormick, Publicity Chair, at devon@acm.org or (212) 529-6139 by phone. Updated notices concerning the conference will be available at www.acm.org/sigapl.

To assist in advance planning, please immediately email or mail the following information to the program chair at an address indicated above:

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