James A. Brown was

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of the group within

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responsible for the programming language APL2 program product. APL2 was first available on IBM

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s in 1980, and was later available under

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, and

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. In 1993, Brown received the ''Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL'' from the

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. In 1996, he left IBM to become a consultant and entrepreneur. In 1999, Brown cofounded SmartArrays, Inc., and has held a senior position in the company for many years. The firm develops specialized analytic software based on columnar databases, with memory-resident vector processing, for uses where customers consider commercial off-the-shelf software to be more expensive, slow, or limited. Note: SmartArrays ceased operations and the corporation was dissolved as of February 2019

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Jim American computer scientists Computer systems researchers Programming language researchers IBM employees APL implementers Living people 1943 births