Wayne Landsman
GSFC
The Interactive Data Language ( http://www.rsinc.com/idl/index.html) is a commercial plotting, image processing, and programming language which is widely used in astronomy. The main speaker in this BOF session will be David Stern of Research Systems Inc., who will describe the new features in IDL 5.0, and talk about planned developments in the IDL language. Wayne Landsman will give an update on recent changes in the IDL Astronomy Library ( http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/homepage.html). Users are welcome to give additional short talks describing their applications of IDL in astronomy.