January 2018 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout:
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on Google+ - SVFIG on
YouTube - SVFIG on
YouTube Live
SVFIG YouTube
Channel
Videos: morning1 (0:17:50) -
morning2 (0:23:11) -
afternoon (2:38:58) |
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10:00 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:30 |
Quantum Computing Becomes Routine - Jack J.
Woehr
"We're still years off from a generally marketable quantum
computer, but it's obvious that it's really going to happen. I.ll explore and
identify resources on the web that will let you get started with quantum
computing right now."
- Jack's
presentation links
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11:30 |
Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at
The Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and
Gossip
Possible discussion topics include: Have you seen something cool?
Have your read a good book? Have you heard a good podcast? Can you share the
interesting things you are working on? These do not have to be
Forth-related. |
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13:10 |
Forth Haiku Update - Brad Nelson
Brad will flip
through the latest contributions from the Forth Haiku site. |
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13:15 |
Signed Distance Functions - Brad Nelson
"In
recent years, Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) have found a variety of uses in
computer graphics, from fonts to volumetric rendering, to ray marching. I'll
explore how well these techniques work in combination with the simplicity and
efficiency of Forth."
- Experiments with
Signed Distance Functions and Forth
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14:10 |
Hello, Forth! - John E. Harbold
John presented,
"Proof of concept graphical user interface using the Gnome toolkit in
Forth"
- Slides - 78.2 Kb pdf
file
- Glade - A User
Interface Designer
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14:55 |
Break |
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15:05 |
Three Topics - Andreas Wagner
Andreas suggested
three topics - he'll discuss one or two of them.
- The case for Forth FIFOs in place of stacks (Andreas
presented this)
- Forth as an HDL in the PSoC 5LP, logic synthesis + placement
+ routing by lazy evaluation and majority inverter graphs
- 4P - A dynamically & algebraically standardized file
system protocol (no boilerplate)
- Slides - 481 Kb pdf
file
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn |
Other items:
- Forth
- Stone
Knife Forth - a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation
- js Forth
fun!
- 8th - inspired by
Reva Forth
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- ColorForth
assembler / disassembler
- Forth Programming Books
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Misc Forth Stuff
- The
Jupiter ACE Manual - 35th Anniversary Edition: Forth Programming 3rd
Edition
- Forth Street
- Forth
Bridge
- Computers
- Want
to Build a Silicon Quantum Computer Chip? Here’s How
- Ask Fran: Introduction
to the Commodore 64 (C-64) Computer (video 12:55)
- Arduino-related
- Starter
Pack for Arduino (includes Arduino Uno R3)
- Arduino
Products
- Arduino Starter
Kit
- Comparison of Arduino
Starter kits
- Arduino Kits
- Maker Shed
- Odd
Wires
- Sparkfun
- Chips
- Chirp
Microsystems Squeezes Sonar into Silicon
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- JYE
Tech DIY FG085 DDS Digital Synthesis Function Generator Kit with Panel
- Other Books
- Manuals & Documentation
- Dartmouth
Computer Program Highlights - 1980s
- Articles
- Bootstrapping
a simple compiler from nothing
- Applications
- Stores
- Adafruit
- BOBZ
Products
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Stanford Seminar: Beyond
Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic (video 1:31:27)
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Ted
Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn From the Past
- Celebrating
the 70th Anniversary of the Transistor
- Source
Code For Apple's 1983 Lisa Computer To Be Made Public Next Year
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
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