Iverson College
Iverson College is a residential event for array programmers, and for people interested in what’s happening with vector programming languages.
We met again in 2024 – for the first time since the Covid pandemic – back at our first venue, Trinity Hall in Cambridge.
Conor Hoekstra’s array-language comparisons
We are implementers and developers, insiders and outsiders, experienced and new. For a week we live together as students. We bring our work, we do it, and we share it.
You can get an idea from Miki Yamanouchi’s short film of what it was like at the Cambridge 2024 meeting.
Our informal talks are lively; they fit the moment and the conversation. Participants report that the time and space of our meetings nourish deeper and more useful conversations than conferences can.
Alexander von Humboldt: A meeting designer way ahead of his time
Since our last meeting the Array Cast began. The podcast has connected us to more language designers than ever before. Most of the podcast crew will be with us; our 2024 meeting looks like being the most eclectic yet.
Previous meetings
Iverson College first met in 2011 at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
In May 2017 we were at a villa outside Lucca in Tuscany. In October 2018 we returned to Milden Hall in Suffolk, and had guests for a weekend q masterclass.
Languages
In Cambridge in 2024: APL, BQN, J, k, KamilaLisp, kdb+/q, uiua.
Travel
Cambridge is about an 80-minute drive from London. Trains from London Kings Cross reach Cambridge in an hour and run frequently. National Express direct buses from Heathrow take 2 hours.
Contact
No events are planned for 2025. For 2026 we are considering a residential event of several days focused on building APL systems on modern lines with UI in HTML/JS, microservices and APIs.
If you are interested in this, please write to the Warden of the College.