December 2012 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout-
long
url - tinyurl
Videos -
morning
(1:15:58) - afternoon
(2:37:38) |
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09:45 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:10 |
Quantum Computing - Jack Woehr
Jack did a remote
"Hangout" presentation.
- Slides - 261 Kb pdf file
- Here are some of Jack's writings:
- QM/QC:
The Hdirt Factor - A chat with John Martinis
- Camera
Excursion to the NIST Ion Trap Quantum Computing Experiment
- Quantum
Memory: A Chat with Ian Walmsley
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11:45 |
Lunch
We walked to and ate at the
Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip
What
can we do to promote Forth? |
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13:15 |
Kestrel 2 Update - Samuel A. Falvo
II
"I have a made a very small, yet very significant, advancement
with the Kestrel. I'll let the Kestrel itself tell you." |
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13:20 |
Compiling Chinese Opera - CH Ting
Ting
is using Forth as a tool to compile old music scores from Chinese Operas. He'll
show that Forth really does not care whether the score is in numeric or text
form, even in Chinese. He will compile a few songs from old scripts and
demonstrate them.
- Slides - 340 Kb pdf file
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13:50 |
Interesting Items - Volume 18 - Dave
Jaffe
Dave continues his survey of interesting newly-introduced
microcontrollers, I/O peripherals, sensors, products, and gadgets that can
provide useful and unique capabilities to Forth embedded systems. If you come
across interesting items, forward them to Dave.
- Slides - 359 Kb pdf file
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14:20 |
Break |
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14:40 |
What the Trek? -
Samuel A. Falvo
II
Sam will describe the production of the pro-quality web series set in
the Star Trek universe.
- Star Trek - Phase II Episodes from Season 4
- Episode
1
- Episode
2
- Episode
3
- Episodes
4 & 5
- Episode
6
- Episode
7
- Star Trek - Phase II Vignettes
- Vignette
1
- Vignette
2
- Vignette
4
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15:40 |
Random Access - All in attendance
Impromptu
talks, amiable ambling discussions, sauntering through news://comp.lang.forth,
and other conversations. |
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15:55 |
Clean Up |
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16:00 |
Adjourn |
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Other items:
- Forth
- Computers
- Software
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Forth Programming Books
- Articles
- Stack processor
using a ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) having an instruction set
optimized to minimize memory fetch operations
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Computer
Network Exploitation Developer - Parsons Corporation - Columbia, MD
- Lectures
- People
- GreenArrays
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Books
- Courses
- Podcasts
- Other
- Build It Yourself
SIG
- Silicon Valley Computer
Society
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