February 2024
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09:30 |
Start of Meeting - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman.
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09:37 |
Implicit Compilation - Travis
Bemann
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10:01 |
PC32: (Color)Forth with Integrated Graphics - Julian
Roca |
10:22 |
A Clever Computation of Pi - Bill Ragsdale |
10:39 |
CoSy Internals - Bob Armstrong
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11:30 |
How to Build a Star Trek Computer - Don
Golding |
12:00 |
End of Meeting |
Future |
Library for Quantum Encryption using FPGA Chips -
Brett Gordon Getting Started with arrayForth - Greg
Bailey AI on CORE I LLMs - Don Golding CORE I Applications - Don Golding and Demitri
Peynado Direction Finding - Andrew Korsak Building GUIs in Forth, without the Gunk - Xuyang Chen Fiji - Jack J. Woehr The Game of Bridgit - Bob Armstrong |
Other items:
John Walker died February 2. He was the creator of AutoCAD/AutoDesk and created ATLAST, a public-domain FORTH-like language, to encourage programmability to be added. Feeling that AutoLisp was a performance bottleneck but hooked on embedded automation, he created the "Autodesk Threaded Language Application System Toolkit" and released it into the public domain to encourage use. He was a prolific writer and his reasoning for choosing FORTH was interesting and insightful:
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