SVFIG Meeting Agenda for Saturday, May 19, 2001 Third Saturday at Cogswell College 1175 Bordeaux Dr. Sunnyvale, CA |
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09:45 |
Coffee and Donuts |
10:00 |
Technical Session: Coding Schemes of Chinese Characters - C.H. Ting Chinese spelling, Romanized spelling, and Chang-Ji alphabets are a few coding schemes for Chinese characters. Ting will discuss the Chang-Ji scheme, as it is the most logical way to encode Chinese characters. He is porting this encoding technique to the eM32 processor. |
12:00 |
Lunch Networking, demonstrations, and tutorials Sign up for inpromptu talks by name and topic on the white board |
13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip |
13:30 |
Featured Talk: The Silicon Composers 32-bit Processor - George Nicol George will discuss a Silicon Composers' design for a 32-bit Forth processor that is ready for to be fabricated into a chip. He is looking to have the processor manufactured in a profitable manner that would at least recover development costs. |
14:30 |
Break for afternoon tea Networking and demonstrations. |
15:00 |
Technical Talk: A Question of Balance - Dwight Elvey Dwight addressed a mathematical problem posed in the April 2001 issue of Scientific American: how to remove the weights on a balanced beam in sequence without tipping. He coded an extensive search program in Forth that found all the solution combinations. |
16:00 |
Adjourn |
Next Business Meeting: Monday, June 4, 2001, 7pm Those with ideas for the next agenda and would like to get more involved in the general meeting process are invited to attend the Business Meeting at Jack's Pizza, 212 2nd Ave., 1/2 block west of "B" St. in San Mateo (650/343-9229). |
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Future Meeting Topics: June - Testing Forth - Use of Forth in Testing and
Development July - Robotting with Forth - Use of Forth in Motion Control Systems August - Forth under Unix/Linux - Forthing around under these OS's September - Speaking Forth - Getting Forth to Interpret Non-text Input Anyone who would like to present at an SVFIG meeting should contact John D. Carpenter, john.carpenter@stanford.edu |