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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}}</ref> | Rather than relying on publication, the main format for communication at each meeting is a talk from an invited expert speakerarchive-url=https://web. To enable participation by those who are unable to travel to London, many meetings are broadcast live via YouTube, with recordings of these events retained therearchive. We also encourage discussion of themes related to these talks via our discussion group on LinkedIn. For more information on the current programme of events, and access to recordings and the slides used in past events, please refer to the Group's website.<ref>[org/web/20171217074346/http://www.bcs.org/groupscategory/advprog14883 APSG],| [[Britisharchive-date=17 ComputerDecember Society]].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), and Prof. Geoff Sharman (2010-2014), and Rob Packwood (2014-2016).<ref name="heritage" /> The current chairman is RobProf PackwoodAlgirdas 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''

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* October 2006, with [[Computer Conservation Society]], ''The first 35+ years of IBM Hursley software''

* November 2005, with Formal Aspects SG ([[BCS-FACS]]), ''Separation Logic''

and has been among those BCS groups which have pioneered wider access to meetings via the use of consumer recording and broadcasting technology, and social media.

==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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