SVFIG
Meeting Agenda for
Saturday, January 26, 2002
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA


This month's meeting will be held in the Dragon's Den, a room opposite the Cogswell Library. Directions will be posted on signs.

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09:45
Coffee, Tea, and Pastries

10:00
Technical Sessions:

Bspline and Bezier curve drawing routines - CH Ting
Ting will provide a general discussion of the algorithms and implementation in Forth using integer arithmetic.

U< and < - CH Ting
A new look at the implementations of these words.

Developments in Taiwan - CH Ting
Ting will also report on recent developments, or lack of developments in Taiwan.

12:00
Lunch -
Networking, demonstrations, and tutorials
Sign up for inpromptu talks by name and topic on the white board

13:00
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip

13:30
Featured Talk:

Object Oriented Forth - Robert Ackerman
Robert will help us understand Object Oriented Forth, especially in updating Win32Forth.

14:30
Break for afternoon tea
Networking and demonstrations.

15:00
Featured Talk:

Win32Forth Updating - John Peters
Attendees should bring questions, repeatable bugs, ideas for improvements, wish lists, and sample program extensions on disk to look over on a big screen. John is requesting demonstrations of how to crash Win32Forth! This is will help with a project to compile a crash proof version of Win32Forth for use both as a training program for students and new users. The final system should have descriptive error messages that not only tell what went wrong, what error was THROWn, and suggested work arounds.

16:00
Adjourn

Anyone who would like to present at an SVFIG meeting should contact John D. Carpenter, john.carpenter@stanford.edu

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