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'''The Advanced Programming 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 17th17 December [[1959]]. It has met continuously in London since then, generally on the second Thursday of the months from October to May each year.

Its 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 at [http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/advprog/].

Past chairmen of the Group were Ewart Willey (first chairman 1959-19741959–1974), Peter King (1974-19801974–1980) and Peter Prowse (1980-19821980–1982). The current chairman is Prof. John Florentin (1982-1982–).

From time to time, the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs, for example:

From time to time the Group holds joint meetings with other BCS SGs, for example:

* 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 focussingfocusing on each of the following topic areas:

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

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

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== External links ==

* [http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/advprog/ Advanced Programming Group website] for summaries of recent talks

* [http://www.bcs.org.uk/ British Computer Society website]

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