Vector is sorry to report the death last month of Mike Kingston. Norman Thomson writes:
He worked at IBM Headquarters at North Harbour in Portsmouth during the 70s and 80s, and was instrumental both in persuading the Finance and Planning departments there to use APL extensively, and subsequently in giving them excellent technical support. An offshoot of this was George Kunzl’s system which subsequently became ADATUM, which, if I have got it right, eventually became part of Dyalog. [Don’t think so. Ed.] As one of the ‘back room’ people he was always present at APL events and conferences, whether APL, BAPLA, or SIGAPL. Outside work he lived in Winchester and was a Lib Dem Counsellor in Hampshire, or perhaps just a candidate, I can’t quite remember which.
