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From: Mike Kent <70530.1226@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: ToT VIII Report
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Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:09:30 GMT


 The 8th NY/SIGAPL-sponsored "Tool of  Thought" professional development
 seminar was held this past Saturday (January 23) in the facilities of
 Cornell University Medical College/New York Hospital in Manhattan.

 Plenary sessions were addressed by J. Philip Benkard on the topic of 
 "Changing Perspectives" and by Kenneth E. Iverson on "From Iverson
 Notation to J".  There were additionally over a dozen workshops and
 tutorials.  Most speakers and attendees were from the New York metro
 area, but others came from California, Texas, New England, Canada, and
 the United Kingdom.  Academics, employees of large and small firms, and
 independent consultants were among the attendees.  In all there were
 approximately 70 attendees.

 Spiral-bound proceedings are available (vii+141 pp.); I don't know the 
 exact price yet, but it will not exceed $US 20 postpaid in North America.
 I will post the price and ordering address to the news group as soon as
 I know exactly what it is.

 Contents of the proceedings:

	Langlet		"New Mathematics for the Computer"
	Alvord		"When 0 is False and 1 is True"
	Waters		"Population Study:  Life Tables and Age Pyramids"
	Wood		"Thoughts Rescued:  an Historian's Use of APL"
	MacDonald	"Computers in the Curriculum:  Structural
				Geology and Tectonics"
	Conser		"The Use of APL in Monitoring Marine Fish
				Populations"
	Lin		"Teaching Operations Research with APL"
	Bowman		"APL Makes Me Feel All GUI"
	Armstrong	"Expanding Vocabularies"
	Jones		"Inner-Product Scans for Spirals and Random Bits"
	Butterworth	"Integrating Graphics to Your APL*PLUS 	 	
				Application" 
	Lea		"Object Oriented Design and APL"
	Lee		"Object Oriented Programming and APL"
	Kent		"Data Typing, Encapsulation, and Abstraction:
				an APL2 Technique"
	Lucas		"APL -- Concepts and Tools"

 Additionally, software (TryAPL and APL2/PC) for Jones's and Kent's
 presentations was received, and will be made available both by diskette
 purchase (probably around $5, price not fixed) from NY/SIGAPL, and by
 ftp (most likeley at UWaterloo, once th details of transport are worked
 out).

 Somewhat to my surprise (and disappointment), there were no presentations
 on or using J, except for Ken's plenary address, but (very) preliminary
 preparations for ToT IX will be underway soon.  As soon as we have
 a proposed date (or range of dates) and an address, I'll post it here.

 Finally, I think it safe to say that a good time was had by all, and
 NY/SIGAPL looks forward to the next ToT PDS.


