Advanced Programming Group
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The Advanced Programming Group (APSG) is a Specialist Group (SG) of the British Computer Society
(BCS). It held its first meeting, when it was referred to as "BCS Study Group No. 5", at Bishop's House, High Holborn
, London
WC1, England
on 17 December 1959. It has met continuously in London since then, generally on the second Thursday of the months from October to May each year.
Its purpose is to disseminate information on emerging concepts, programming languages, tools and techniques. Rather than relying on publication, the main format for communication is a talk from an invited speaker whose slides are made available on the Group's website http://www.bcs.org/groups/advprog.
Past chairmen of the Group were Ewart Willey (first chairman 1959–1974), Peter King (1974–1980), Peter Prowse (1980–1982) and John Florentin (1982–2010). The current chairman is Prof. Geoff Sharman (2011-).
From time to time, the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs, for example:
The Group has had several recent talks focusing on each of the following topic areas:
and most recently:
British Computer Society
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(BCS). It held its first meeting, when it was referred to as "BCS Study Group No. 5", at Bishop's House, High Holborn
High Holborn
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, London
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WC1, England
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on 17 December 1959. It has met continuously in London since then, generally on the second Thursday of the months from October to May each year.
Its purpose is to disseminate information on emerging concepts, programming languages, tools and techniques. Rather than relying on publication, the main format for communication is a talk from an invited speaker whose slides are made available on the Group's website http://www.bcs.org/groups/advprog.
Past chairmen of the Group were Ewart Willey (first chairman 1959–1974), Peter King (1974–1980), Peter Prowse (1980–1982) and John Florentin (1982–2010). The current chairman is Prof. Geoff Sharman (2011-).
From time to time, the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs, for example:
- May 2010, with Fortran SG, Parallel Programming in Fortran with Coarrays
- January 2010 with Computer Conservation SocietyComputer Conservation SocietyThe Computer Conservation Society is a British organization, founded in 1989. It is under the joint umbrella of the British Computer Society, the Science Museum in London, and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Many of the society's meetings are held at the Science Museum...
, The 50th Anniversary of the publication of the Algol 60 Report - October 2006, with Computer Conservation SocietyComputer Conservation SocietyThe Computer Conservation Society is a British organization, founded in 1989. It is under the joint umbrella of the British Computer Society, the Science Museum in London, and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Many of the society's meetings are held at the Science Museum...
, The first 35+ years of IBM Hursley software - November 2005, with Formal Aspects SG (BCS-FACSBCS-FACSBCS-FACS is the British Computer Society Formal Aspects of Computing Science Specialist Group. The group, founded in 1978, organizes meetings for its members and others on formal methods and related computer science topics...
), Separation Logic
The Group has had several recent talks focusing on each of the following topic areas:
- Aspect-oriented programmingAspect-oriented programmingIn computing, aspect-oriented programming is a programming paradigm which aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns...
and Aspect-oriented Design (AOSDAOSDAOSD can refer to:*Adult-onset Still's disease*Aspect-oriented software development...
) - Enterprise-Level Software Architecture (Enterprise softwareEnterprise softwareEnterprise software, also known as enterprise application software , is software used in organizations, such as in a business or government, contrary to software chosen by individuals...
)
and most recently:
- Parallel programming for multi-core systems