SVFIG
Next Meeting:
Forth Day 2004
Saturday, November 20th
Third Saturday
at
Cogswell College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA
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Agenda to: George Perry
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09:00
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<== Notice earlier starting time
Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and Pastries
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09:25
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Welcome - George Perry
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09:30
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Disguising Forth / Serving Forth -
Bob Nash
When applications are targeted for conversion or need to be ported to a
different environment, adapting your application to universal GUI tools may be
the answer. The process can also provide some insight on how the Forth
philosophy applies to application conversion.
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10:30
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Whole Brain Forth - Jeff Fox
Up, Down, Left, Right, whole brain multiprocessing in Forth. In Forth how are
the subsystems interacting? Where is control and understanding located? How
does communication take place and what role does language play? What can be
learned about natural parallel intelligence in Forth?
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11:10
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Tethered 8051 Inspired by Colorforth -
Charles Shattuck
Last minute addition.
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11:30
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Recent Forth Projects - Tim
Duncan
Tim mixes Computers and Music with the moderator rods of Forth. A heady and
intoxicating mixed metaphor indeed!
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12:00
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BBQ Lunch - Courtesy of CH Ting
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13:00
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Introductions, Announcements, Rumors,
Gossip
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13:20
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Treasurer's Report - John Rible
John will report on the finances of FIG and SVFIG.
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13:30
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Forth in Real World Products - Paul
Clifford and Jeremy Wade of Mosaic Industries, Inc.
Mosaic Industries is an East
Bay company that sells embedded systems and
QED-Forth
software. The company has been using Forth since its inception in 1985. They
produce off-the-shelf and custom embedded computer solutions for numerous
applications such as industrial control, process automation, product
development and/or product upgrades, data acquisition, and scientific
instruments. Paul will present their use of Forth both as the on-board real
time operating system and for developing functional libraries, for example,
Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool kits for embedded display / touchscreen
products.
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14:00
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Wearable Data Acquisition System -
Dave Jaffe
Dave will share his ideas on a Forth-based portable personal data acquisition
system including new sensors.
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14:20
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Progress of the Digital Oscilloscope
Project - CH Ting
Ting is leading a team to develop an ultra-compact, very-high-frequency,
super-low-cost digital oscilloscope. He hopes to demonstrate some hardware: a
small printed circuit board that will sample the signal and a GameBoy Advance
that will display the scope traces.
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14:40
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Networking - All attending
Discussion of speakers, topics, and projects for future meetings.
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15:00
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Fireside Chat - Chuck Moore
The inventor of Forth will enlighten us.
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16:00
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Adjourn
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17:00
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Drinks and Dinner - Golden Wok in
Mountain View
Driving
directions and maps.
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