Glasgow hosts Anniversary Celebration of APL Language

  Dyalog Ltd - the world’s leading provider of the APL language - will host a celebration of the 50th anniversary of APL (A Programming Language) during Dyalog ‘16, its annual global user conference in Glasgow, (Oct 9-13). Some of the most innovative and exciting new applications developed using Dyalog APL will be showcased live at the event, including the Big Data research solution, Galileo Cosmos, which will demonstrate how researchers such as Cancerlinq in the US, explore terabytes of data to highlight areas of interest that help clinicians choose the optimum treatment for each new cancer patient.

The solution embraces a completely new way of exploring big data by accessing terabytes of data – mainly for research purposes. Paul Grosvenor, managing director of Optima Systems in the UK, who has been one of the main drivers behind the development of the new software solution explains, “Galileo Cosmos is developed entirely in Dyalog APL and allows users to explore their data in a bold new way. Contrary to many other data exploration and business intelligence solutions, the main focus is not to answer known questions as you would normally expect when querying a database. Rather, it’s about letting the data itself show you areas of interest that may prompt you to dig deeper into specific datasets. The uniquely flexible visual analytic interface immediately highlights data correlations, which makes it easy for researchers to decide which areas they ought to examine.”

The APL language is highly effective at solving problems that involve performing complex calculations on lists or arrays of data. Its bit-manipulation capabilities make it a great tool for embedded, robotics and computer vision applications as well as in the finance and banking sectors. It is also used for applications such as ‘Take Care’, the Swedish patient journal system currently implemented in the greater Stockholm area in Sweden.