Robert Bernecky

Robert (Bob) Bernecky
Robert (Bob) Bernecky
Born	January 28, 1947 (age 77)
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

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]

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

^ 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.

External links

Snake Island Research Inc.

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[1] 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.

[2] Bob Bernecky (1973-08-22). "Speeding up Dyadic Iota and Dyadic Epsilon". Proceedings of the APL Congress 73.

[3] Bob Bernecky and Roger Hui (1991-08-04). "Gerunds and Representations". APL91 Conference Proceedings.

[4] Bob Bernecky (1977-06-10). "Comparison Tolerance". SATN 23, I. P. Sharp Associates. Retrieved 2018-03-06.

[SATN45-5] 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)

[6] Bob Bernecky and Kenneth E. Iverson (1980-10-06), "Operators and Enclosed Arrays", 1980 APL Users Meeting Proceedings, retrieved 2018-03-06

[7] Robert Bernecky and Charles Brenner and Stephen B. Jaffe and George P. Moeckel (1990). "ACORN: APL to C on Real Numbers". APL90 Conference Proceedings.

[8] Robert Bernecky (1997). APEX: The APL Parallel Executor (M.Sc. thesis). University of Toronto.

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