This blackboard was in Ken's office the '80s at IPSA. After that it was in Bob Bernecky's office and Tony Bailey's, I'm not sure if Benoit Paquin had if for a while or not. After the separation of Soliton, I inherited it and removed Tony's batman stickers and kept it in my office at Reuters until they eventually shut us down. The blackboard is on a wall in my studio and will remain there unless someone else wants it. It has plenty of chalk and a couple of erasers. It's still in excellent condition.
If you can come to Oakville and pick it up, it's yours.
Showing posts with label Iverson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iverson. Show all posts
Monday, 16 August 2010
Ken Iverson’s blackboard from his days at IPSA
From Peter Wooster at the group APL – A Programming Language at LinkedIn.com:
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Jeffrey Shallit on Ken Iverson - 2004
Just thought I'd let you know I've posted Jeffrey Shallit's unbridged talk at Ken Iverson's memorial in Toronto in 2004.
And for the pundits among you... I'll have you know that the full version of the 1974 Origins of APL video has had 3,502 plays to date. Who would have thought!
Jaffrey Shallit @ KEI Memorial
Catherine | MySpace Video
To read more about it see my blog.
And for the pundits among you... I'll have you know that the full version of the 1974 Origins of APL video has had 3,502 plays to date. Who would have thought!
Jaffrey Shallit @ KEI Memorial
Catherine | MySpace Video
To read more about it see my blog.
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Rediscovering APL’s history
A new article posted at Vector recounts Catherine Lathwell’s talk to APL BUG about her documentary film project.
Monday, 26 October 2009
Donald McIntyre
Roger Hui on the J Forum:
Donald B. McIntyre (1923-08-15 to 2009-10-21) passed away peacefully in the afternoon of October 21. Donald was an eminent geologist who pioneered the use of computers in geology. He was a gifted and inspiring teacher, an early and long-time APL and J user, and a friend and colleague of Ken Iverson and myself. He is survived by his wife Ann and his son Ewen. A memorial service will be held in St John’s Kirk in Perth, Scotland, this coming Friday, October 30.
Information about Donald’s life and times and his work can be found at www.mcintyre.me.uk
Professor McIntyre was a generous contributor to Vector. He is greatly missed.
Thursday, 18 June 2009
How language shapes thought
Professor Lera Boroditsky at Stanford has dragged the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis back into the laboratory. Her work discovers the ways in which thought depends on the languages we use. Iverson, rest easy; programmers, take note.
Article: "How does our language shape the way we think?"
Friday, 5 June 2009
Catherine Lathwell Rediscovers the History of APL
Most of you have probably figured out that my name is Catherine Lathwell and I have begun working on a documentary film about the History of APL.
Last month, on May 11, 2009, I spoke publicly for the first time about this film with the APL Bay Area Users' Group meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. I live in Toronto and had booked a trip to Palo Alto to touch base with some of the old timer APL folks as an informal kick-off trip for the film. Curtis Jones found out about these plans because I plastered them all over cyberspace and organised the meeting as well as a personal tour of the museum by Dr. Leonard Shustek, Chairman of the Board for the Museum.
The Museum is awesome. At the time, a fully functioning Babbage Engine had taken up residence is the foyer. It's beautiful. Later, I got goose bumps in the lab where they are re-conditioning old machines. The lab feels like one those old machine rooms, only smaller. They had card readers (oh, my) and those old machine room printers - I can't even remember what they are called. I do however, clearly remember Charlotte Dawson giving me what-for about not tying my hair back when I was setting them up. Charlotte was my (s)hero and boss :) so, the hair went up.
Back at the Museum they are in the midst of a massive fund raising campaign to support an ambitious exhibit featuring a time line of computer history. And incidentally, as far as I can tell, we haven't made it onto the time line in software languages category on the museum's web site, so there is an opportunity for advocacy here. In any case, a problem they will have with their exhibition, and a problem I will also share is, how do you explain something abstract, like a computer language to a general audience?
The meeting with the APL Bay Area Users' Group went much as one might expect. I introduced myself and talked about my ideas for the film. I then showed a short video interview with my father, and this stimulated discussion about the good old days. Discussion was lively and folks have a lot to say. The group supports the film idea and everyone is eager to help out. This is great.
I'm now getting ready to fly to the UK tonight so that I can talk about the film at the BAPLA2009 conference. This is very exciting and fun. I have a lot of energy for this project because I truly believe it is important - and if not now, When? And if not me, Who?
I'm looking forward to seeing you all on Monday. Keep watching this space...
http://www.computerhistory.org/
http://www.aprogramminglanguage.com/
Last month, on May 11, 2009, I spoke publicly for the first time about this film with the APL Bay Area Users' Group meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. I live in Toronto and had booked a trip to Palo Alto to touch base with some of the old timer APL folks as an informal kick-off trip for the film. Curtis Jones found out about these plans because I plastered them all over cyberspace and organised the meeting as well as a personal tour of the museum by Dr. Leonard Shustek, Chairman of the Board for the Museum.
The Museum is awesome. At the time, a fully functioning Babbage Engine had taken up residence is the foyer. It's beautiful. Later, I got goose bumps in the lab where they are re-conditioning old machines. The lab feels like one those old machine rooms, only smaller. They had card readers (oh, my) and those old machine room printers - I can't even remember what they are called. I do however, clearly remember Charlotte Dawson giving me what-for about not tying my hair back when I was setting them up. Charlotte was my (s)hero and boss :) so, the hair went up.
Back at the Museum they are in the midst of a massive fund raising campaign to support an ambitious exhibit featuring a time line of computer history. And incidentally, as far as I can tell, we haven't made it onto the time line in software languages category on the museum's web site, so there is an opportunity for advocacy here. In any case, a problem they will have with their exhibition, and a problem I will also share is, how do you explain something abstract, like a computer language to a general audience?
The meeting with the APL Bay Area Users' Group went much as one might expect. I introduced myself and talked about my ideas for the film. I then showed a short video interview with my father, and this stimulated discussion about the good old days. Discussion was lively and folks have a lot to say. The group supports the film idea and everyone is eager to help out. This is great.
I'm now getting ready to fly to the UK tonight so that I can talk about the film at the BAPLA2009 conference. This is very exciting and fun. I have a lot of energy for this project because I truly believe it is important - and if not now, When? And if not me, Who?
I'm looking forward to seeing you all on Monday. Keep watching this space...
http://www.computerhistory.org/
http://www.aprogramminglanguage.com/
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