Employee Spotlight: Aarush
It’s been a year since Aarush joined us, and we asked him to look back over his first twelve months. Aarush joined Dyalog Ltd after studying at VIT Vellore in India, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Forgoing his college placements in pursuit of working on the nitty-gritty of programming […]
Welcome Karl Holt
Karl had always imagined that he would spend his career in academia, as had many who know him. However, after becoming disenchanted with the whole university environment halfway through his Master’s degree, he sought a role outside academia and joined Dyalog Ltd. Although he’s only been here for a few months, he feels that he […]
Employee Spotlight: Stefan
It’s now one year since Stefan joined Dyalog Ltd, and we asked him what he made of the experience so far. “I can’t believe how time flies. It feels like it was only yesterday I arrived at the Bramley office for the first time, to pick up my laptop and meet everyone.” Prior to joining […]
Employee Spotlight: Jada
This week marks one year since Jada joined Dyalog Ltd, and we asked her about her experiences thus far. “It’s truly been a whirlwind of a year. I don’t know where the time has gone! It’s been intense, but in the best way possible. I’ve been able to get a feel for everything that being […]
Welcome Mike Mingard
Mike recently joined Dyalog Ltd, bringing his experience in web and digital design. Mike grew up in West London, and now lives by the sea in East Sussex. His background is in Recording Engineering, and he worked for a number of years as a front-of-house sound engineer and theatre stage manager. Having learnt the basics […]
Welcome Abs Suri
After graduating from the University of Portsmouth with a bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Abs started investigating IT roles. He wanted something that provided a challenge, working for a team that was passionate about what they do, and in which he could contribute to that effort through the software and IT abilities that he has […]
Welcome Aarush Bhat
In pursuit of his dream to contribute to the development of a programming language professionally, Aarush started cold emailing companies that worked on them (there aren’t a lot, but a lot). One of the companies he contacted was Dyalog Ltd. Aarush initially joined us in January 2023 as a contractor, focusing on testing the primitives […]
Dyalog '23 Day 5: The End, Yet Still Much More to Do
In his second presentation of the week, Brandon Wilson relayed some of his experiences as a relative newcomer to APL and Dyalog. Having heard that most users learn APL through an apprentice model in which they enter an organisation and are taught by already experienced users, he sought out further help to learn array programming […]
Dyalog '23 Day 4: So Many Problems to Solve
We started Wednesday with an update to the co-dfns project by Aaron Hsu. Aaron is trying to make APL more accessible to more people for tackling more problems. He explained how version 4 focusses on good performance on GPUs and detailed error reporting – including a parser that can be used for static analysis of […]
Dyalog '23 Day 3: Quantum, Human, and Network Communications
Tools Architect Brian Becker started today’s presentations with an overview of the tools provided by Dyalog Ltd. to help develop applications. He also explained the plans to improve documentation and tutorials and have more comprehensive testing, especially as our tools are supported across different platforms, architectures, and deployment scenarios. He then demonstrated use of HttpCommand to […]
Dyalog '23 Day 2: Looking Into the Future
The weather improved today – the sunshine was a refreshing feeling as we awoke to a new day of forward-thinking presentations. As usual, we began with Gitte Christensen’s welcoming address in which she spoke of the exciting new growth happening at Dyalog Ltd. Five new employees have joined since we met in Portugal last year […]
Dyalog '23 Day 1: Welcome to Denmark!
We have returned to the (very windy this time!) shores of Elsinore in Denmark for our annual user meeting, Dyalog ’23! Today saw the usual range workshops in which everybody could get involved learning the intricacies of a range of topics with the support of experts from Team Dyalog and friends. In the morning, users […]
Welcome Stefan Kruger
Stefan Kruger recently joined Dyalog Ltd from IBM, where he worked on distributed databases for many years. Stefan spent a long time at university doing research in signal processing; after that he worked in several start-ups that were closely tied to the academic world. Then, taking a step away from technology for a while, Stefan […]
Employee Spotlight: Peter
This week marks the first anniversary of Peter joining Dyalog Ltd. He is one of the newest additions to Team Dyalog and we couldn’t be more excited for his future here. We were able to pry him away from the interpreter to catch up with him and see what his time has been like so […]
Welcome Jada Andrade
Jada moved to the United Kingdom in 2015 to pursue a degree in law with politics at the University of Manchester. On graduation she relocated to Reading in the south of England, where she took on various temporary positions in administration during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jada first heard about APL when her partner, Rich Park, […]
APL Seeds '23: Wednesday 22 March
Last Wednesday we hosted APL Seeds ’23, the third of our free online user meetings aimed at new and prospective users of APL. In attendance was a mix of new users and the APL-curious, as well as more experienced APLers answering questions and imparting wisdom in the chat and during the post-event meetup. Rich Park […]
Welcome Peter Mikkelsen
Peter joined Dyalog Ltd in mid-July 2022, shortly after finishing his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Aalborg University in Denmark. He didn’t originally plan to look for a job so soon, but when he saw that Dyalog Ltd had an opening involving three of his favorite things (C programming, interpreters, and APL) it was […]
Welcome Silas Poulson
As is often the case these days, Silas found APL through online programming language discussions – both in various forums and through videos (Aaron Hsu’s Co-dfns and John Scholes’ Game of Life demonstatration in particular) – whilst attempting to understand the more esoteric ideas and their theoretical underpinnings provided by Scheme and other functional languages. […]
Dyalog '22 Day 5: Looking Forward
Links to recordings from this day of the user meeting are at the bottom of this post. To begin the final day of the user meeting, Aaron Hsu presented some strategies and ways of thinking about processing data that come from text. While his specific focus is parsing APL code for the co-dfns compiler, he […]
Dyalog '22 Day 4: Celebrations
Links to recordings from this day of the user meeting are at the bottom of this post. The third day of presentations kicked off with Brian Becker running us through the gauntlet of setting up and deploying web services. Initial setup with Jarvis and Docker containers seems like an absolute breeze. However, the later stages […]
Dyalog '22 Day 3: Automation, architecture and performance
Links to recordings from this day of the user meeting are at the bottom of this post. Automation, architecture and performance were throughlines of the second day of presentations. Lars Stampe Villadsen from SimCorp A/S provided some advice on how to write tests and gave a live demonstration of a small testing framework together with […]
Dyalog '22 Day 2: Welcome Back to User Meetings
Links to recordings from this day of the user meeting are at the bottom of this post. We were welcomed to the 2nd day of the user meeting by managing director (CEO) Gitte Christensen. Everybody could appreciate the emotion and sentiment when she noted the distinct “APL Hum” apparent in the atmosphere at this year’s […]
Dyalog '22 Day 1: Welcome to Sunny Olhão!
Arriving to meet the warm sea air is already a refreshing change as this year’s long, hot summer started to close in the weeks leading up to this year’s user meeting. Of course, for some with less far to travel, the warmth is a familiar comfort. As delegates arrived on Sunday night we were treated […]
APL Seeds '22: Tuesday 29 March
On Tuesday 29 March we hosted APL Seeds ’22, the second annual online event for new and prospective users of APL (although everyone was welcome). Once again we were delighted to see that the majority of registrants had little to no APL experience; it feels like we get the chance to offer that same sense […]
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
On Friday 15 October, the SERV S&L was presented with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey. Geoff Streeter was one of 20 volunteer SERV S&L members who attended. What Is SERV S&L? SERV S&L (Service by Emergency Rider Volunteers for Surrey and London) are a charity organisation, made up […]
Welcome Karta Kooner
Karta joined Dyalog in April, and is yet to meet anybody in person although he’s been told that this is not necessarily a bad thing! After completing his doctoral degree in theoretical physics, Karta stumbled upon Dyalog and APL entirely by happenstance. Being often captivated by things that look unfamiliar to him, and having an […]
News and Recommendations Regarding Dyalog Versions 17.1, 18.0 and 18.1
Background Dyalog version 18.0 contained the largest number of optimised algorithms in the history of Dyalog APL. Unfortunately, since its release, we have found that our process for review and testing of optimisations was insufficient to cope with the quantity and nature of the optimisations. Many of the new algorithms had edge cases that escaped […]
APL Seeds '21: Wednesday 31 March
Last Wednesday we hosted APL Seeds ’21, an event for those just starting their APL journey. Although we knew we had a good programme with some exceptional presenters in place, we very quickly had to increase our Zoom webinar limit to accommodate the 287 people who registered to attend! We were surprised and excited by […]
Welcome Rodrigo Girão Serrão
The story of how Rodrigo got his first internship at Dyalog is, in his opinion, a textbook example of serendipity. As 2020 started, Rodrigo began actively participating in an online code golf community, where people try to solve programming challenges in as few bytes of code as possible. Whilst his golfing skills were possibly lacking, […]
Welcome Shuhao Yang
Shuhao joined Dyalog straight after he completed his Master’s degree in quantum computing, which happened to be during the second COVID-related lockdown in the UK. This has given him a quite unusual experience of starting a career as he has yet to meet a single member of the Dyalog team face to face! Shuhao obtained […]
Highlights of the 2020 APL Problem Solving Competition – Phase I
We received some excellent competition entries this year. Once again, thank you to all those who participated, congratulations to this year’s winners, and thank you to the Grand Prize Winner Andrii Makukha for his presentation at this year’s user meeting. This post contains some suggested Phase I solutions along with some comments from the judges. […]
Welcome Ron Murray
Ron Murray is a recent addition to the Dyalog team, with a long history in the APL community. He first encountered APL/360 in 1969 and was hooked. He used it as the basis for teaching Computer Science courses for the Hampton, Virginia High Schools. Then, working with other APL pioneers, he wrote several APL applications […]
Welcome Kirstine (Stine) Kromberg
Stine graduated from Copenhagen Business School with a Masters degree in Business Administration and Information Management in 2016, and went to work for a small consultancy firm. She started with “Drag&Drop” programming in SSIS and other similar tools, but quickly moved into project management, accounting, and Business Intelligence. Covid-19 intervened just as she was looking […]
Dyalog ’19: Thursday 12 September
Dyalog Pictures Ltd? After a wonderful banquet dinner bonding with fellow teammates of last night’s Viking Challenge, we were invited to the Jorns Auditorium for the world premiere of our movies from earlier in the day. The screening and awards show was a roaring success with everybody being surprised and thrilled at the quality of […]
Dyalog ’19: Wednesday 11 September
Floaty balls In contrast with Monday night’s brain-bending puzzles, last night there was some lighter entertainment as Richard Park presented his molecular dynamics framework APLPhys. He showed us how elegantly APL could express mathematical equations and we joined in his fascination watching simulations of little balls flying around on his MiServer based graphical interface. APL […]
Dyalog ’19: Tuesday 10 September
2⍴⊂’APL’ Last night Roberto Minervini and his students Pietro Pio Palumbo, Gabriele Meroni and Alessandro Laselli of Liceo Scientifico GB Grassi Saronno conducted A Puzzle League – sneakily introducing us to another APL. The delegates were divided into teams who competed to solve 18 maths and logic puzzles, which could be solved both using APL […]
Dyalog '19: Monday 9 September
Dyalog ’19 talks begin As usual, we began the series of User Meeting talks with a warm welcome from Managing Director Gitte Christensen. This year Gitte’s message felt somewhat spiritual as she described the lore of Thor’s hammer Mjölnir and its place in formal ceremonies. The choice of logo for this year’s User Meeting feels […]
Dyalog ’19: Sunday 8 September
Welcome back This year once again the Dyalog User Meeting returns to beautiful Elsinore in Denmark. The historic seaside city is home to Kronborg castle, famously immortalised in Shakespeare’s Hamlet – and Kromberg castle, where Morten lives. We are holding the user meeting at Konventum in the western outskirts of Elsinore. It features winding corridors […]
Welcome Josh David
Josh David is a recent graduate from the University of Scranton with a degree in Computer Science. He minored in Philosophy at college and headed The Philosophy Society, so feel free to strike up a philosophical discussion with him at any time! He is no stranger to APL. In Scranton, he was introduced to APL […]
Welcome Nathan Rogers
Based in Denver, Colorado, Nathan Rogers is a new member of the Dyalog team. In previous lives, Nathan spent six years as a member of the United States Armed Services as a Satellite Communications Operator, studied music theory and performance at the University of Northern Colorado, and built desktop and web applications across numerous languages […]
Welcome Richard Park
Richard Park is the latest addition to the Dyalog team and is based at Dyalog HQ in the UK. Richard has been living in the same house in Bramley his entire life and recently returned to the village after one successful degree in physics at the University of Manchester, and one unsuccessful degree in education […]
Pool Stories: Fergus back on Form
It has been almost 2 years since our last post about Jo Fergus (daughter of our Customer Account Manager, Karen Shaw) the pool player who Dyalog have sponsored in the past. When we last updated you, Jo had just had her daughter, Remy, and made the difficult decision to take some time out from pool […]
Supporting the Community – Update
You may have been wondering what has been happening with Jo Shaw (daughter of our Customer Account Manager, Karen) the England pool player who Dyalog have sponsored in the past, so we thought it was time for an update. After getting a new job in December 2014, Jo moved from Hampshire to Wiltshire and joined […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Thursday
Today was the last day of the user meeting, a further half-day celebrating 50 years of APL, with presentations both looking back at the history of APL from its beginnings to the present day, and looking forward to the future and how it can reach new audiences. In that vein, Roberto Minervini, a teacher from […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Wednesday
Today we started to celebrate APL’s 50 year history, looking at how it has developed since IBM created the first clear workspace on 27 November 1966, and how it will continue to develop in the future. There was audience participation – prior to lunch, everyone joined in a rendition of APL Blossom Time. Behind the scenes the day […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Tuesday
Last night’s whisky and chocolate tasting Last night’s dinner ended with a talk from Glengoyne, a highland distillery based fourteen miles north of Glasgow. We were presented with three different whiskies in their range, and a talk explaining how they were produced and how that gave them their different flavours. They were served with single origin chocolate […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Monday
This year at the user meeting we have 106 attendees and a further 15 partners and guests, from 15 different countries worldwide. Today was the first day of presentations and the day the user meeting opened formally. Today also saw the arrival of the motion platform for the Viking challenge tomorrow and that’s been causing a lot of interest […]
Report from Dyalog ’16 – Sunday
It was a gloriously sunny day in Glasgow today. The Golden Jubilee Hotel overlooks the River Clyde and this was the view at sunrise: The day began with delegate registration, with Karen and Fiona manning the registration desk throughout the day. To mark Dyalog at 50, Geoff also presented a desk loaded with memorabilia from the […]
Report from Dyalog '16 – Saturday
Welcome to Glasgow and to Dyalog ’16 – this year’s annual Dyalog user meeting, which is taking place at the Golden Jubilee Hotel on the banks of the River Clyde. Whether you are attending in Glasgow or following from afar, we hope to give you a taste of what is going on from the perspective […]
Tuesday at Dyalog '15
MiServer UI Controls Dan Baronet and Adám Brudzewsky continued yesterday’s presentation by Morten Kromberg on Cross-platform User Interfaces by demonstrating a lot of varied interface elements that are available when creating front-ends in MiServer. Especially encouraging were the special controls designed by Dyalog. These make it possible to have arrays render as complete super-elements (e.g. a table). No need to worry about the many underlying HTML […]
TamStat, a Statistical Package
Blog post from presentation by Stephen M Mansour PhD, The Carlisle Group as well as the University of Scranton, and Jerry Brennan PhD, A former teacher of Statistics in Hawaii, who has now moved being a fulltime Psycologist. By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 Last year I managed to squeeze in a mention of TamStat in a blog […]
Using Co-dfns to Accelerate APL Code
Blog post from Aaron Hsu’s (Indiana University, USA) presentation Wednesday 9th September. By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 For the past 2-3 years Aaron and Dyalog have been collaborating on creating a new compiler. This is an Open Source project and the compiler – which is currently in ‘Version 0.5’, is available as a zip download from […]
How I won the Dyalog Programming Contest
Blog post from Arianna Locatelli’s presentation on how she won the Dyalog APL programming contest 2015. By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 Introduction Now it it’s 7th year, the annual Dyalog APL Programming Contest continues to attract a lot of interest. One of our favourite sessions at the Annual User Meeting, is when we get the opportunity to meet the […]
Highlights from User Presentation at Dyalog '15 Tuesday 8th September
We have been spoilt with a large number of User presentations today, and although I have focused on writing more indepth about How to Save an Italian School with APL in a separate blog, I find it important to also give our blog readers a glimpse of what we also saw and heard today. By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 We […]
Monday at Dyalog ‘15
There is so much going on at Dyalog ’15. The general theme of the day was set with Morten Kromberg’s Technical Road Map. Dyalog is constantly refining and expanding APL’s capabilities and ease of use, quickly adding functionality to tie into new technologies, and adapting to emerging trends. Here are some highlights from the day: […]
How to Save an Italian School with APL
Blog post from presentation by Roberto Minervini with 4 of his students; Arianna Greco, Samuele Luigi Di Gioia, Kariman Admed and Silvana Maria Belén Colman Cabrera – all from Liceo Classico S.M. Legnani, a Public Secondary School. By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 Getting the message of the power of Dyalog APL to young people, is one we […]
The Importance of Communication, Transparency and Practice
Blog post from Presentation by Gianfranco Alongi from Ericsson AB By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 Those of you who have been following my blog posts from Dyalog User meetings the past couple of years, will know that I am a always alert when we take a departure from talking about ‘coding’ or ‘technology solutions’, and ‘target achievement in […]
Premium Capping Schemes: An important steering Mechanism in German Health Insurance
Blog post from presentation by Dr. Markos Mitsos – Deutsche Krankenversicherung AG DKV – ERGO, Actuarial Department @ Dyalog ’15. by Vibeke Ulmann DKV has many million health insurance contracts. Each tariff of each contract has to be checked and possibly adjusted annually in terms of insurance premium based on a number of criteria – without […]
Parallel Programming with Futures/Isolates
Morten Kromberg went right to it with his well-prepared workshop on the prototype features that were introduced in version 14.0 of Dyalog APL. The features are still partly modelled in APL to allow the first wave of users to pass judgement on the design. Throughout the workshop, we were asked for feedback, to ensure that […]
Building a Web Application with MiServer
One of Sunday’s tracks was Brian Becker’s engaging workshop on MiServer 3.0 – the newest version of Dyalog’s APL-based web application framework that allows you to develop a cross platform application for stand-alone use or delivery via the web. The motto of MiServer is that everyone who can develop an APL application should also be able to make […]
Postcard from Dyalog '15 – Sicily
We’re here, we’re excited and Naxos greeted us with sweltering temperatures and beautiful sunshine on Saturday. Being the oldest Greek settlement in Sicily, founded before Syracuse, around 735 BC, Naxos has a lot to offer. The Atahotel Naxos venue, where the user meeting is taking place, is situated right on the coast with a fantastic view […]
Postcard from Dyalog ’14 – Thursday
This is the last day of Dyalog ’14 so this is the last of six daily postcards from Eastbourne – we hope you have enjoyed getting a flavour of things as they happened. We expect there will be more discussion to come once we’re back and rested! Last Night’s Banquet Yesterday culminated in the traditional […]
Postcard from Dyalog ’14 – Wednesday
It’s been another busy day at Dyalog ’14; there’s lots to write about and little time to do it! Winners of the International APL Programming Contest 2014 This year, 710 registrations were received for the annual APL Programming Contest and the two main winners – Emil Bremer Orloff, student entrant from Aarhus Universitet, and Iryna […]
Postcard from Dyalog ’14 – Tuesday
The weather predictions have been spot on so far; it’s been another lovely sunny day at Eastbourne – here was the scene this morning at sunrise: It was another busy day of presentations – read on for some highlights! After dinner tonight the evening will be rounded off with Morten and his Dancing ‘Bots – […]
Postcard from Dyalog '14 – Monday
Monday opened with registration for what is the biggest Dyalog user meeting on record – it could have been even bigger but we had to turn some people away because there was no more room available. In total there are 126 attendees (even more that when we went to print with the programme!) made up […]
Postcard from Dyalog ’14 – Sunday
Today at Dyalog ’14 was a day of Technical Workshops: six half-day sessions and one all-day session were held, and there will be more at the end of the user meeting on Thursday. This evening Gitte will informally welcome the attendees before Vibeke introduces the scavenger hunt and Karen and Jason run a traditional English […]
Postcard from Dyalog '14 – Saturday
Welcome to the first of several postcards from Dyalog ’14 in Eastbourne. The last Dyalog conference/user meeting held in the United Kingdom was at Horsley near Guildford back in 2003 and we’re looking forward to holding it on what is, for a lot of us, home ground. Eastbourne is a resort on England’s south coast […]
