Robert (Bob) Bernecky is a Canadian computer scientist notable as a designer and implementer of APL. His APL career started at I.P. Sharp Associates (IPSA) in 1971.[1]
Robert (Bob) Bernecky | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 28, 1947 |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Education | Caltech University of Buffalo University of Toronto |
| Alma mater | Hutchinson Central Technical High School, Buffalo, NY |
| Known for | APL |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | I.P. Sharp Associates Reuters Snake Island Research |
| Thesis | APEX:The APL Parallel Executor - Univ of Toronto, masters |
Bernecky's first published APL work concerned with speeding up the iota and epsilon (index-of and membership) primitives functions by orders of magnitude.[2] While at IPSA, he was a colleague of Roger Hui,[3] Dick Lathwell,[4] Eugene McDonnell,[5] Roger Moore, Arthur Whitney, and APL inventor Ken Iverson.[5][6] [7]
He continued on after IPSA was acquired by Reuters on 1987-04-01, and left Reuters in 1990 to found Snake Island Research. He conducts research into functional array languages, APL compiler, and parallel-processing technology to this day.
Bernecky holds the Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto.[8]
References
edit- ^ Robert Bernecky (2016-10-12). "Zoo Story: How the I.P. Sharp APL Development Group Got its Name". Dyalog '16 User Meeting. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
- ^ Bob Bernecky (1973-08-22). "Speeding up Dyadic Iota and Dyadic Epsilon". Proceedings of the APL Congress 73.
- ^ Bob Bernecky and Roger Hui (1991-08-04). "Gerunds and Representations". APL91 Conference Proceedings.
- ^ Bob Bernecky (1977-06-10). "Comparison Tolerance". SATN 23, I. P. Sharp Associates. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
- ^ a b Bob Bernecky, Kenneth E. Iverson, Eugene McDonnell, Robert Metzger, and J. Henri Schueler (1983-05-02). "Language Extensions of May 1983". SATN 45, I. P. Sharp Associates. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Bob Bernecky and Kenneth E. Iverson (1980-10-06), "Operators and Enclosed Arrays", 1980 APL Users Meeting Proceedings, retrieved 2018-03-06
- ^ Robert Bernecky and Charles Brenner and Stephen B. Jaffe and George P. Moeckel (1990). "ACORN: APL to C on Real Numbers". APL90 Conference Proceedings.
- ^ Robert Bernecky (1997). APEX: The APL Parallel Executor (M.Sc. thesis). University of Toronto.
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