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The '''Advanced Programming Specialist Group''' ('''APSG''') is a Specialist Group (SG) of the ''[[British Computer Society]]'' (BCS). It held its first meeting, when it was referred to as "BCS Study Group No. 5", at Bishop's House, [[High Holborn]], [[London]] WC1, [[England]] on 17 December 1959.<ref name="heritage">{{cite web | url=http://www.bcs.org/category/14884 | title=Our Heritage | work=Advanced Programming Specialist Group | publisher=[[British Computer Society]] | accessdate=18 July 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709035141/https://www.bcs.org/category/14884 | archive-date=9 July 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> It has met continuously in London since then, generally on the second Thursday of the months from October to May each year.<ref name="history">{{cite web | url=http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/meetings-1959-2009.pdf | title=List of past events | work=Advanced Programming Specialist Group | publisher=[[British Computer Society]] | accessdate=18 July 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204850/http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/meetings-1959-2009.pdf | archive-date=3 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
APSG seeks to explore new developments in programming languages, runtime environments, programming tools, multicore processors, mobile platforms and end user interfaces which are important to today's real world applications.<ref name="aims">{{cite web | url=http://www.bcs.org/category/14883 | title=Our Aims | work=Advanced Programming Specialist Group | publisher=[[British Computer Society]] | accessdate=18 July 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217074346/http://www.bcs.org/category/14883 | archive-date=17 December 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
Past chairmen of the Group were Ewart Willey (first chairman 1959–1974), Prof. Peter King (1974–1980), Peter Prowse (1980–1982), Prof. John Florentin (1982–2010), Prof. Geoff Sharman (2010-2014), and Rob Packwood (2014-2016).<ref name="heritage" /> The current chairman is Prof Algirdas Pakštas.
From time to time, the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs and Branches, for example:{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}
* February 2013, with Enterprise Architecture SG, ''What is Enterprise Architecture?''
* January 2013, with Formal Aspects SG ([[BCS-FACS]]), ''Industrial Uses of Formal Methods''
* May 2010, with Fortran SG, ''Parallel Programming in Fortran with Coarrays''
* January 2010 with [[Computer Conservation Society]], ''The 50th Anniversary of the publication of the Algol 60 Report''
* October 2006, with [[Computer Conservation Society]], ''The first 35+ years of IBM Hursley software''
* November 2005, with Formal Aspects SG ([[BCS-FACS]]), ''Separation Logic''
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.bcs.org/groups/advprog APSG website]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1959]]
[[Category:1959 establishments in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Software engineering organizations]]
[[Category:BCS Specialist Groups]]
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