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Here is the program for the APL conference of the year: APL94

I post only part of it (to avoid to long messages) and I'll complete it
in the next weeks.

If you want it complete let me know, I'll send it. I am trying to get places to
make it available by ftp.

Thanks for coming

Alain Delmotte
Program Chairman

===================   APL94 : YOUR Conference   ====================

APL94 offers a varied programme of technical papers, of more active
events like workshops and panels as well as other activities:
Tutorials, posters' sessions, birds-of-a-feather sessions.

The language itself is explored, especially its developments like the
new user's interface (Windows and other GUI) and its future: evolution
towards Object Oriented APL.

The applications presented show that the language is a unique and
important pioneering computer environment in many different fields; a
position that many envy us.

APL is now at a turning-point; it is time to evaluate the  past:
achievements, successes but also mistakes, failures and on the basis of
that evaluation it is time to plan for the future.

We hope that APL94 will be a key part in the process.

A conference is also a time and a place to meet other people sharing the
same interests, to exchange and to debate ideas, to start new co-operative
projects. APL94 will offer you ample opportunities to meet old friends,
to discover new ones, to have constructive contacts.

From the start APL94 has been an illustration of this desirable
International Co-operation. The Conference is less the result of the
actions of a few people from one country than of a general co-operation
of the European APL Societies and Associations.

We hope that this spirit of common action will be the foundation of the
Conference.

We offer you a framework in which you can realise great things, YOU will
do the conference and the future of APL. We do consider that workshops,
tutorials and panels are major occasions to invest yourself in the
activities of the Conference.

Conference Chairman                   Program Chairman
Joseph De Kerf                        Alain Delmotte

1. Invited speakers

1.1 Opening session:

How symbols and notations may affect the mind and brain.
 Dr. Paul J. Lewi, Janssen Research Foundation, Beerse, BELGIUM

Computer science produces powerful symbols and notations. Psychoanalysts
proposed a model for the mind. Neuro-physiology begins to reveal the molecular
structure of the brain.

The brain appears as a gigantic parallel computer that continuously rewires
itself: plastic hardware. Patterns, when reinforced, grow into synaptic
connections between neurones: sticky software.

Symbols are the first links in the chain of encoding that maps the world into
our brains. They mediate between the observer and the observed.

Primitive people and alchemists understood the charm of symbols. Modernist
artists have rediscovered their magic. Present-day scientists are regaining
their alliance, most recently in fractal geometry and chaos theory.

An understanding of symbols and notations is essential for our intellectual, if
not mental, health. Because they embody our hopes, beliefs and fears, they
record the progression and fate of mankind.

1.2 Closing session:

Acquisition and Processing Data from Normal and Cancer Cells
 Dr. Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize, Rensselaer Polytechnics Institute, USA

It is common today to control an experimental set-up using a dedicated
personal computer which is used to both acquire and process the data.
Many computer programs exist for this purpose, but APL can easily be
adapted to do this task. In this talk, a novel system will be described
that can obtain morphological data from cells in tissue culture. When
mammalian cells are cultured on small gold electrodes, they will alter
the impedance of the electrodes. By measuring the impedance, it is
possible to get quantitative data with regards to both the dynamic and
static behaviour of the cells. During the experiments, the impedance is
plotted on the computer screen, and afterwards the data is analysed
using Fast Fourier Transform, Hurst Rescaled Range Analysis or other
mathematical techniques.


2. Plenary presentations

2.1 APL in Finance
 Arthur Whitney, USA

2.2 APL in Japan
 Kyozuke Saigusa, Japan

2.3 The history of APL2
 Jim Brown, USA

3. Accepted papers (main streams)

3.1 Management, Business and Decision support

3.2 Finance, Economics

3.3 Education and training

3.4 Mathematics, Binary algebra, Numerical analysis, Statistics

3.5 Sciences: Physics, Biology, Ecology

3.6 APL, Programming techniques and language development


4. Tutorials

On Sunday morning:

4.1 APL Illustratively
 R. Polivka

4.2 J
 M. Dumontier

4.3 and 4.4-5-6-7 Windows programming

During the week:

4.8 K
 A. Whitney

4.9 The first one hundred million Prime Numbers and APL with applications
in public key cryptography
 Prof. Henriques

4.10 The APL2/AGSS/UEDIT Computing Environment
 Prof P. Lewys


5. Workshops

5.1 APL and its Standardisation
 L. Dickey

5.2 Programming Style and APL
 E. Van Batenburg

5.3 Teaching APL and Teaching with APL
 R. Polivka

5.4 APL and Binary Algebra
 G.A. Langlet

5.5 Using APL for Commercial Packages
 D. Eastwood

5.6 Neural Networks in APL and J
 B. Best

5.7 Object-Oriented Programming and APL
 M. Gfeller and P. Parks


6. Panels


7. Posters


8. Software exchange

Offers should be sent before 31 May 1994 to:
    Michel Dumontier
    Rue de la Republique 7
    F-35580 Guichen
    France
    tel: (33) 99-429055
    fax: (33) 99-429475
    e-mail: dumontie@cambur.emse.fr

9. APL94 Russian Fund

Donations may be sent to:
    The APL94 Russian Fund
    c/o Madame L. Lemagnen
    174 Boulevard de Charonne
    F-75020 Paris
    France
    tel (work): (33) (1 ) 49-455223
    fax (home): (33) (1) 43-566798
    e-mail: lemagnen@mars.emse.fr

11. Registration Fee (l$ = 35 BEF)


12. Social Programme

Welcome reception

Sunday 11 September 1994-19.30h

Exhibitor reception

Monday 12 September 1994 - 19.00h

Cultural Evening

Tuesday 13 September 1994 - 20.00h

Banquet

Wednesday 14 September 1994- 19.00h

13. Conference Office

    APL94 Conference Office
    APL94
    c/o Technological Institute - K VIV
    Desguinlei 214
    B-2018 Antwerp
    BELGIUM
    tel.:   (32)-3-216 09 96
    fax:    (32)-3-216 06 89
    e-mail: tiapl94@autoctrl.rug.ac.be

    Program Chairman:
    Alain Delmotte
    Avenue du Marathon, 6
    B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
    BELGIUM
    fax:    (32)-10-45 23 26
    e-mail: apl94pgm@ires.ucl.ac.be

Avenue du Marathon, 6
B1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
BELGIUM
telephone :    32-10-45 11 92
fax :              32-10-45 23 26
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APL94 will be held in Antwerp, BELGIUM, 11-15 September 1994
                APL - the language and its applications

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