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IBM APL Products and Services wins Iverson Award

October 21, 2007

The ACM SIGAPL hosted the APL 2007 conference in Montreal. At the conference banquet, ACM SIGAPL presented the Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL to the IBM APL Products and Services group. David Liebtag accepted the award on behalf of IBM.

Since 1983, the Person of the Year award from ACM's Special Interest Group on APL has become the computer industry's most prestigious award for APL achievement. It has been presented to the people who have done the most to further the role of APL, whether through implementation or education or any other significant means. The IBM APL Products and Services group is the first development organization to be honored with the award.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery is an organization for computing professionals, delivering resources that advance computing as a science and a profession; enable professional development; and promote policies and research that benefit society. The ACM Special Interest Group on APL Programming Language fosters the development and application of the APL language via a lively exchange of ideas and techniques.