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This first APL Users Conference was held at the State University of New York at Binghamton, sponsored by the Computer Center, for two explicit purposes: (1) to bring together as a community of users those, primarily in university environments, who were ...

We find ourselves today trying to prepare for the operation of a 21st century institution and trying to solve and resolve the questions and the problems that we all must face, problems that are very different from those that perhaps any of us ...

The program says that this is going to be the history and status of APL\360. It will mostly be the history of APL, and I think that is reasonable because APL\360 is part of the history. I suspect that there will be many other APL\something-or-others ...

This session was presided over by Mr. Walter Niehoff who is the Manager of Engineering Education at IBM, Endicott. He has been using APL for about two years and his prime interest now is the application of APL for:

(1)Communication problems - those ...

Mr. Bruce Norcross, an Associate Professor of Chemistry at State University of New York at Binghamton, presided over this session. He has been associated with CAI for some time now and feels that, in APL, he has found a language that has a great effect ...

At an academic institution we are faced with a rather unique problem in programming instruction. First of all, we are faced with the fact of the cyclic nature of the student body. Also, unless we are concerned with a credit course involving programming, ...

We at Binghamton intend, at least for ourselves (and I believe Alberta at least expressed this interest) to abstract whatever we have that we feel we would be proud enough to make available to other people in printed form. We would hope by somewhere in ...

On Saturday, July 12, at 11:30 a.m., the “birds-of-a-feather” groups met in individual rooms. As far as we have been able to determine, there were at least seven groups which convened. Some of the sessions merely evolved into demonstrations of programs ...

As a result of the Conference, a questionnaire was mailed to about 120 registrants, one to an installation, requesting that they submit a priority list of their desires in terms of additional APL support or further elements of implementation. About 50 ...