SVFIG Next Meeting - Forth
Day Saturday, November 17th at Cogswell College 1175
Bordeaux Dr. Rooms 197A and 197B Sunnyvale,
CA 94089
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Agenda to: George
Perry
Wireless Internet access is anticipated
(though not guaranteed) at Cogswell, so bring your wi-fi enabled
laptop.
Security Notice
When
attending SVFIG meetings, please be aware that Cogswell College now locks its
doors on weekends. To facilitate your entry to the building, there will be an
SVFIG member stationed at the door from 9:45am to 10:15am to admit recognized
SVFIG meeting attendees. If you are attending an SVFIG meeting for the first
time, please bring along a printout of this agenda to identify your interest in
Forth and to gain admission. If you arrive after 10:15am, there will be a
telephone number posted for you to call to alert someone of your presence at
the door. The front door will also be checked at intervals of 20 to 30 minutes
to accommodate those without cellphones.
Do not under
any circumstances allow any strangers to enter Cogswell. Those who are
authorized admittance have key-cards. |
Forth Day Agenda
Morning Session
09:30 --- Coffee and
Networking
09:55 --- Chairman's Welcome -
George Perry
10:00 --- F# Tutorial - CH
Ting "I will give a short presentation on the F# implementation and how
to use it in Windows applications. I will demonstrate a number of applications
to show how F# makes use of Forth in a Windows environment."
10:30 --- Audible Computing - Masa
Kasahara Masa will discuss his rationale for his Audible Computing
project and how Forth might play an entirely different role in computer
language history.
11:00 --- Forth Microcontroller for
Education and Robotics - Glen Reuschling Glen will report on his
recent progress in building an FPGA-based Forth microcontroller with an
integral USB host controller. He'll also present plans for using the controller
in science education and robotics.
11:10 --- Portable Embedded Forth
Application Development - Leon Wagner "I will demonstrate the
development, debugging, and testing of a very simple embedded application using
the SwiftX development environment. I will then show how this application can
be moved across a variety of target hardware platforms with minimum
modification." Leon will be bringing copies of the
newly published
Forth
Programmer's Handbook - 3rd Edition for sale for $35 (tax included -
cash or check only, no credit card purchases). Email Kevin Appert (forther -at-
comcast.net) to reserve your copy.
12:00 --- BBQ Lunch -
Catered by CH Ting
Afternoon Session
- 13:00 --- IntellaSys Session: -
John Rible (Moderator)
- SEAforth24's Interface to the PC -
Jurgen Krehnke (VP Marketing)
- Running Identical Code on Multiple
Platforms without Conditional Compilation - Bill Muench
- One Way to Execute Very Long Programs
on a SEAforth Chip - Charley Shattuck
- Port Streams: Telling Multiple
Processors What To Do - Randy Leberknight
- Music Synthesis with SEAforth24 -
Michael Montvelishsky
- Jeff's Ramble - Jeff
Fox
- IntellaSys Utility which Translates
Both Ways between ColorForth and (ASCII) Machine Forth - John
Rible - not presented due to lack of
time
15:00 --- Fireside Chat - Chuck
Moore
16:00 --- Adjourn
17:00 --- Dinner at Palace BBQ Buffett in
Sunnyvale
How you can help SVFIG:
- Bring your speaker and topic suggestions
to every meeting!
- Your input for November's Forth Day is
always welcomed.
Coming to SVFIG in the future
(hopefully):
-
WAV File and Soundcard I/O Software
Using Win32Forth - Andy Korsak This software was written for
amateur radio applications. Andy has suggested that it might be useful to look
at his code in advance of his talk. Contributions to this work-in-progress
would be welcomed. You can download and view his sound card software on the
Win32Forth
group (membership required), or here.
Please register your interest for these
topics:
- Viewing of Analog by Design shows
hosted by Bob Pease - list of
shows
- The world's second Babbage Engine is
coming to town. Maybe we can have a meeting at the Computer History Museum to
take a look.
- Review and discussion of recent postings
on news:comp.lang.forth
- Review and discussion of interesting Forth
projects and many files at the
Yahoo Win32Forth
Group
Off the table:
- There has been a lack of interest for a
presentation by a representative from Gumstix.
- There has been no success in contacting
the author of
Propeller
Forth - written locally by Cliff L. Biffle
- A tour of
TechShop in Menlo Park is not
planned at this time. If you would like to visit the facility, please make your
own arrangements. Check out their talks, events, and instructional
classes.
If you have anything you'd
like to talk about in December, please contact Kevin
Appert. |