--- SVFIG Meeting, Fourth Saturday, October 23, 2010 --- _______________________________________________ *** MEETING PLACE SAME AS LAST MONTH *** The meeting will be held in Building 550 (aka Peterson Building) most likely on the first floor. Directions and map links are below. *** DO NOT ASK STANFORD STUDENTS TO LET YOU IN AND DO NOT ENTER THE BUILDING BEHIND STUDENTS *** Enter the building from the Panama Mall side. The door is labeled "Building 550 - Mechanical Engineering Design Group". If there isn't someone from SVFIG at the door to let you in, call the cell phone number on the sign. The Official SVFIG Announcement Editor's Parking Lot Recommendation is the lot near the intersection of Santa Teresa St and Lomita Dr. ***WIFI AVAILABLE*** To use Wifi, you will need a guest account. If you didn't have a guest account last month and you want to use Wifi, then email Dave Jaffe at: _______________________________________________ AGENDA For late-breaking updates, check the web site: <<>> At each lull in the action, between talks or before breaks we will be inviting folks to give short 5-10 minute 'quickies'. If you'd like to tell us about something, let Kevin know at the meeting and we'll reserve the time for you or take your chances that nobody else will grab the slot. 09:50 --- Coffee and a Chat 10:00 --- eForth for eP32 - CH Ting "eP32 is a Forth engine, but it still needs a Forth operating system to interact with the user. This eForth implementation returns to the original simplistic design, but leaves room for the user to make the best use of the underlying CPU. I will discuss the metacompiler, eP32 assembler, kernel, interpreter, compiler, tools, and simulator in this eForth suite." 11:35 --- Quickie 11:45 --- LUNCH We will walk to The Treehouse by Tressider Union. Here is a review: <<< http://collegerestaurant.net/default.aspx>>> Here is the menu: <> 13:00 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, DISCUSSION --- All Assembled This month we'll go around the room and each introduce ourselves. If you're willing, tell us how you got started with Forth. 13:30 --- FORTH MEETS SMALLTALK --- Doug Hoffman Doug will give us a look at his ANS Forth object extension package. He'll present via Skype. See Doug's bio here: http://www.forth.org/whoswho.html#doughoffman 14:30 --- Break 14:44 --- A LOGICAL PIANO KEYBOARD IN F# --- CH Ting Piano keyboards were designed incorrectly from the very beginning. Assigning white and black keys should have done logically, not physically. Ting will show us how piano keyboards should be designed. In F#, all Windows GDI functions are accessible and one can build custom graphical user interface for specific applications. Ting will demonstrate how to draw a keyboard on screen and dynamically change its design when shifting keys. 15:21 --- Gforth on eCos --- John E. Harbold John will give a give an update on his effort to port Gforth to the eCos platform. He has now gotten Redboot to boot under GRUB and may have Gforth built to run under eCOS and integrated into Redboot by meeting time. eCos is an embedded configurable operating system which is open source, POSIX-compliant, real-time, and multi-threaded with your choice of scheduler.http://ecos.sourceware.org/about.html RedBoot is a complete bootstrap environment for embedded systems. Based on the eCos Hardware Abstraction Layer, RedBoot inherits the eCos qualities of reliability, compactness, configurability, and portability. http://sourceware.org/redboot/ 15:55 --- Clean up before you go! 16:00 --- Ok, now you can go. _______________________________________________ Please note that the times listed above are precise but not necessarily accurate. We might go a little long or short on any agenda item or shuffle things on the fly with abandon. If you're desperate to see something at a particular time, please let us know! Remember that there are bugs in any non-trivial SVFIG meeting announcement. Mistakes were made and we're not to proud to admit it. _______________________________________________ The schedule above may be reformatted or line-justified but please transmit verbatim or not at all. Any font you like is fine with me. No Newsgroup posts or other media distribution please! _______________________________________________ There is NO Public Wireless Internet access at Stanford. Email Dave Jaffe to request a one day guest account if you didn't have one last month. If you see "Free Public WIFI" in your networks at Stanford or for that matter in any public place BEWARE! Zombie networks since 2006 or so! <<>> _______________________________________________ Coming to SVFIG: * FORTH DAY in November 2010! * Bring speaker suggestions TO EVERY MEETING! * Mitch Bradley's Forth in C (somebody needs to volunteer) * Blast from the past - a discussion of John James' CRC from his Xmodem implementation as enunciated in "Forth Dimensions". * Engineering TV http://engineeringtv.com/ Fifty engineering topic channels. Four new episodes per week. _______________________________________________ Check the SVFIG web site at http://www.forth.org/svfig/ for last minute changes to this schedule. The most up-to-date meeting information is at http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html Many thanks to our wonderful Webmaster, Dave Jaffe. Preliminary agenda along with schedule updates and discussion may frequently be found on the SVFIG email list. To subscribe send email to geoperry_at_gmail.com Please let us know if this isn't your preferred email address for the SVFIG-Announce mailing list. Thanks for your patience. Please suggest a speaker or present at a SVFIG meeting. Please do not attempt to reply to svfig-announce@... send instead to forther_at_comcast.net _______________________________________________ NAVIGATIONAL ADVICE Enter the building from the Panama Mall side. (In the event that the building door is locked, there will either be someone on duty to let you in or a cellphone number to call.) - ***DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TRY TO PIGGYBACK INTO THE BUILDING BEHIND STUDENTS OR ASK STUDENTS TO LET YOU IN*** - Google Maps does NOT work very well on the Stanford campus, use this map: http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/map/ - Or the Searchable Stanford Campus Map: http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/map/ - There is open parking on weekends. Park in any A or C or metered space, no coins needed even if there's a meter there. The Official SVFIG Announcement Editor's Parking Lot recommendation is the lot near the intersection of Santa Teresa St and Lomita Dr. _______________________________________________