February 2020
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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Videos:

• Morning (1:05:08)
• Afternoon (0:56:30)

10:00

Coffee and a Chat

10:30

Wuhan Coronavirus - CH Ting
"I will demonstrate that my pattern search algorithm is very useful in comparing coronavirus genomes. Is the Wuhan virus manufactured? Let us examine the evidence."

Slides

11:30

Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at The Treehouse.

13:00

AI Software in Robotics - Shawn Chen
"Don Golding asked me if I could speak about AI software for robotics. With a background in homemade FIRST robots, I'll illustrate typical software development, examine the unique features of popular languages / tools, and show how it is being used in the FIRST Robotics Competition."

Slides

14:00

Special Event - Bill Ragsdale

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

Ben Siraphob's Forths

RC2014-FORTH - zip

CamelForth

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Forth CPUs

Forth Articles and Blogs

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Products in Forth

Misc Forth Stuff

Computers

Chips

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

Hardware

Other Books

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Forth, The New Synthesis (video 19:35)

Forth - The New Synthesis - Growing Forth with preForth and seedForth

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

RC2014 ZED - Homebrew Z80 Computer Kit

Retro Computing

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

A Slide Rule for Real Programmers (with video 17:31)