{"id":743248,"date":"2021-05-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/?p=743248"},"modified":"2021-07-19T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:29:27","slug":"advancing-excel-as-a-programming-language-with-andy-gordon-and-simon-peyton-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/podcast\/advancing-excel-as-a-programming-language-with-andy-gordon-and-simon-peyton-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Episode 120 | May 5, 2021 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Today, people around the globe\u2014from teachers to small-business owners to finance executives\u2014use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the information that occupies their respective worlds, and whether they realize it or not, in doing so, they\u2019re taking on the role of programmer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode, Senior Principal Research Manager Andy Gordon<\/a>, who leads the Calc Intelligence team<\/a> at Microsoft Research, and Senior Principal Researcher Simon Peyton Jones<\/a> provide an inside account of the journey Excel has taken as a programming language, including the expansion of data types that has unlocked greater functionality and the release of the LAMBDA function, which makes the Excel formula language Turing-complete. They\u2019ll talk specifically about how research has influenced Excel and vice versa, programming as a human-computer interaction challenge, and a future in which Excel is the first language for budding programmers and a tool for incorporating probabilistic reasoning into our decision-making.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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