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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}}</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}}</ref>

APSG's purpose isseeks to disseminateexplore informationnew ondevelopments emerging concepts,in programming languages, runtime environments, programming tools, multicore processors, mobile platforms and techniquesend user interfaces which are important to today's real world applications <ref name="aims">{{cite web| url=http://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 speaker. whoseTo slidesenable participation by those who are madeunable availableto travel to London, many meetings are broadcast live via YouTube, with recordings of these events retained there. 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>[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), Prof. John Florentin (1982–2010), and Prof. Geoff Sharman (2010-2014).<ref name="heritage" /> The current chairman is Rob Packwood.

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

* 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''

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* 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.

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==