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SVFIG
Next Meeting:
Saturday, September
24th
at
Cogswell
College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA |
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Bring your laptop computer and wireless card to
the meeting for free on-site Internet access at Cogswell! |
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George Perry |
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09:45 |
Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and Pastries |
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10:00 |
Revisit Geometrical Arithmetic Parallel Processor (GAPP)
- CH Ting
- "I worked on GAPP arrays at Lockheed in 1980's. It looks that
we can now put 1M processors on a single chip instead of 72 in the original
GAPP chip. You can hold complete HDTV image frames in one chip and do real time
processing. All the interprocessor connections are on chip, and do not have to
be brought out to pins. I am prototyping it on an Altera Stratix II FPGA, which
can hold 1000 processors. Other advance signal processing and huge
matrix/linear equation problems can be solved in this chip."
- GAPP info: Wikipedia
- SIMD info:
- answers.com
- Science
Fair Project Encyclopedia
- Wikipedia
- Parallel Processing Solves the DTV Format Conversion Problem
- PDF
- html
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12:00 |
Lunch - options include: Togos, Waiters on Wheels, or
bring your own |
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13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Gossip, and Random
Discussions
- Potential topics include: SVFIG meeting schedule, October's
lunch order-out options (Pizza or Armadillo Willy's via Waiters on Wheels), and
speaker / topic suggestions.
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13:30 |
Forth Day is coming in
November!
- Please consider giving a short presentation and suggest other
potential speakers.
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14:00 |
The Ear Training Project - Kevin Appert
- Based on Glen Haydon's award-winning Apple ][ application,
we'll talk about:
- Glen's original application and his Asilomar
presentation
- Other similar applications - see
EarMaster Pro
- Implementation ideas
- Dissemination options: selling it commercially or giving
it away free to music students and teachers
- Please come and give Kevin your thoughts and perhaps help him
out with this project.
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15:00 |
Panel Discussion - Kevin Appert
- Recently, an attempt was made to elevate a particular result
in the order in which Google presents its search results. So far, there has
been no success. Do some research and bring some ideas on how to "stuff the
ballot box" at Google.
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15:30 |
Random Access Topics - All in attendance
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16:00 |
Possible Beers and Dinner
Venues include
Tied House in
Mountain View. |
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Please register your interest for these future meeting
topics:
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- Forth Success Stories - look at the ones on
FIG's and
FORYH, Inc.'s
webpages and bring your own!
- TI's free SPICE distribution
- Name that antenna
- Introduction to Linux
- George Perry's experiences installing Linux
- Linux installation party
- Smart Dust
- Math Secrets of Mosaic Industries'
QED-Forth
- Robot Parts and Pieces - vendor(s) from the 2004
RoboNexus show
- misc8051 Forth - Charley Shattuck
- Smart Dust
- SVFIG meeting or meeting fragments as Webcast
- Space-rated Forth chip
- Forth-based mass-market appliance computers - Canon Cat
and/or QX10
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SVFIG welcomes everyone's participation at its monthly meetings.
There are many ways to contribute:
- bring in a hardware or software item to discuss,
- present a topic in an area of expertise,
- discuss a book, paper, website, new product, new application,
or an article in Forthwrite, or
- talk about a current project.
If you would like to present at an SVFIG meeting, contact
Kevin Appert. |