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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">{{factcite web |date 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>

APSG's purpose is to disseminate information on emerging concepts, programming languages, tools and techniques. Rather than relying on publication, the main format for communication is a talk from an invited speaker whose slides are made available on the Group's website.<ref>[http://www.bcs.org/groups/advprog APSG], [[British Computer Society]].</ref>

Past chairmen of the Group were Ewart Willey (first chairman 1959–1974), Prof. Peter King (1974–1980), Peter Prowse (1980–1982), andProf. John Florentin (1982–2010), Prof. Geoff Sharman (2010-2014), and Rob Packwood (2014-2016).<ref name="heritage" /> The current chairman is Prof. GeoffAlgirdas Sharman (2011-)Pakštas.

From time to time, the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs, for example:{{fact|date=July 2014}}

From time to time, the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs and Branches, for example:{{factcitation 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''

The Group has had several recent talks focusing on each of the following topic areas:

* [[Aspect-oriented programming]] and Aspect-oriented Design ([[Aspect-oriented software development|AOSD]])

* Enterprise-Level Software Architecture ([[Enterprise software]])

and most recently:

* [[Parallel programming]] for [[multi-core]] systems

==References==

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==External links==

* [http://www.bcs.org/groups/advprog APSG website]

* [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/BCS-Advanced-Programming-Specialist-Group-3790036/about APSG] on [[LinkedIn]]

* [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBhokJ0qd3-RkmWCbjpLWEmpoBLAAQmd APSG] on [[YouTube]]

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