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120 - Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and
Simon Peyton Jones

May 05, 2021

Today, people around the globe--from teachers to small-business owners
to finance executives--use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the
information that occupies their respective worlds, and whether they
realize it or not, in doing so, they're taking on the role of
programmer.


In this episode, Senior Principal Research Manager Andy Gordon, who
leads the Calc Intelligence team at Microsoft Research, and Senior
Principal Researcher Simon Peyton Jones 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'll 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.


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