Advanced Programming Specialist Group

The Advanced Programming Specialist 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.^[1] It has met continuously in London since then, generally on the second Thursday of the months from October to May each year.^{[citation needed]}

APSG's 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.^[2]

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).^[1] The current chairman is Prof. Geoff Sharman (2011-).

From time to time, the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs, for example:^{[citation needed]}

May 2010, with Fortran SG, Parallel Programming in Fortran with Coarrays
January 2010 with Computer Conservation Society, The 50th Anniversary of the publication of the Algol 60 Report
October 2006, with Computer Conservation Society, The first 35+ years of IBM Hursley software
November 2005, with Formal Aspects SG (BCS-FACS), Separation Logic

The Group has had several recent talks focusing on each of the following topic areas:

Aspect-oriented programming and Aspect-oriented Design (AOSD)
Enterprise-Level Software Architecture (Enterprise software)

and most recently:

Parallel programming for multi-core systems

References

^ ^a ^b "Our Heritage". Advanced Programming Specialist Group. British Computer Society. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
^ APSG, British Computer Society.

External links

[heritage-1] "Our Heritage". Advanced Programming Specialist Group. British Computer Society. Retrieved 18 July 2014.

[2] APSG, British Computer Society.

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