Where are they now?
| FIG is looking for the following people from the Forth community. If
you know of their whereabouts, please email the information to the FIG
webmaster for posting.
- Mitch & Linda Derick - authors of the Forth Encyclopedia
- Don Colburn - possibly deceased
- David Jacuzzi (??)
- Andrew McKewan
- Rick Miley - Author of Mach1 Forth and Mach2 Forth by Palo Alto
Shipping Company
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- Martin Tracy - 05/22/2008
- Martin is now Programmer Writer Lead, Visual Studio - Extensibility Team,
at Microsoft
- Webpage at
Microsoft
- martintr -at- microsoft.com
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"As a senior programmer at Forth, Inc., I wrote over twenty
compilers for DSP and RISC chips, and my own protected mode operating system.
Somewhere along the line, I also wrote a book for Prentice-Hall, and a column
for Dr. Dobb's."
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- Leo Brodie - 12/31/2007
- Author of Starting Forth and Thinking Forth
- leobro -at- comcast net
"I still have the extracurricular hobby business:
Punch and Brodie Puppet
Productions."
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"I'm working as Director of Technical Services for NetSpeed
Leadership in Seattle, developing Fast Tracks."
' NetSpeed Fast Tracks is a searchable database of practical resources
that help you and your team manage your day-to-day workplace challenges and
your career, and become more successful at work.'
- Homepage
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- Dave Boulton - 12/09/2007
- boulton -at- gmail.com
"I did a big push for cell phone browsers a few years back at
Openwave Systems, then I took some
time off. I'm now working up to a new generation of wireless internet
stufff."
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- Kim Harris - 11/19/2007
- kim_harris - at- novxiii.com
"I'm retired from HP and spend time volunteering for non-profits,
travel, and enjoying life. I'd love to connect with Forth folks, current or
former. Forth has a fond place in my memory."
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- John K. Stevenson - Forth Advocate - 11/05/2007
- john -at- nomadic.com
"I was on the F83 standards team, and spent some time on the ANSI
Forth standards team."
" I wrote a ATLAS-like test language in Forth, that had Forth
source-code as it's object code."
"I worked out the architectural details and design for a satellite
uplink controller."
"I taught several introductory to assembler, operating systems, and
Forth courses."
"I worked on the test executive for diagnostics of the Intel cellphone
chip."
"I worked on a service node for the GTD5 Phone switch - in Forth, both
as Staff Software and Junior Architect."
"I developed the overall Architecture of IBM-CAD, a product built in
Forth, and that had Forth as it's scripting language."
"I performed systems analysis and Forth code analysis on an unnamed
airport for Bechtel."
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- Mitch Bradley - 07/09/2007
- wmb_at_firmworks.com
"I'm currently working on the One Laptop Per Child project. The XO
laptop boots with Open Firmware. Forth has been instrumental in debugging the
various bits of innovative hardware on the laptop."
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- Charles Curley - Author of Forth
Dimension articles and one of the writers of Sams
Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours
Charles Curley is the chairman and sole member of his "Forth
Non-Standards Team" described in the Forth Dimensions review
article Forth: The New Model in May/June 1993 -
(V15N1). He's still a Forth Practitioner after
all these years. For his particulars, go to his
website. If you want good writing
or good programming, he can be reached at charlescurley_at_charlescurley.com.
07/09/2007
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- Marlin Ouverson - Editor of Forth Dimensions
- marlin@neverslow.com
- Marlin provides corporate services as a custom web site designer and
producer, and as an experienced editor and publication designer through his
company, External Design.
- External Design
Homepage
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- Glenn S. Tenney - Forth Standard Team member and co-author of
MVP-Forth User's Manual: Amiga
- tenney@think.org
- Organizer and Chair of the THINK Conference (formerly Hacker's Conference)
- PO Box 6983
- San Mateo, CA 94403
- 650/574-3420
- 650/574-0546 fax
- THINK Conference
Homepage
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- Howard Pearlmutter - 02/06/2004
- hxp4th20050909 --at-- xmlephant --dot-- org
"My Forth background has been mighty handy in my current
incarnation - guruing about Extensible Languages, Virtual Machines, Enterprise
Architectures, Management Strategy, etc. That's on the public seminar and
private consulting side; on the personal coding and system administration side,
I've been doing a lot with XML, J2EE, J2ME, Linux, SVG, XSL, etc."
"As a consulting mercenary and general hitech nomad, I've logged 59
months overseas during the past 7 years, mostly Australia, Singapore, Israel,
and England. Currently on US east coast, without current plans to be out west
anytime soon, but would love to rendevous with you all when I do eventually
make it back to California. Until then, please convey my best wishes to
everyone in the Forth Family."
- Executive
Summary
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- George Nicol - proprietor of
Silicon Composers,
Inc.
- george -at- inscenes.com
- "These days I'm mostly making short films and writing/recording music
in Buenos Aires. I recently finished a new film:
Hooked on You.
I'm also planning to release a music CD this year." 01/23/2004
- InScences
Homepage
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- Bill Ragsdale - one of FIG's founders
- fig -at- billragsdale.cc
"After retiring from Dorado Systems (a 100% Forth shop), I now
conduct statistically based investment research and publish a financial
advisory letter (Good Fortune). I am
now living in Woodland, CA, phone 530/661-0413." 02/04/2004
- Forbes
Interview - 07/12/2002
- An article
Bill wrote about FIG-Forth on the
JOLT
computer.
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- Tom Zimmer - Primary author of FPC,
Win32Forth, and TCOM
- win32forth -at- mac.com
- "I have been with Thermo (Thermo
Electron in Austin, TX) now for over 10 years, moving from Forth
programmer, to C/C++, to Java, and currently C#. I haven't written any Forth in
over 5 years, which is sad but true. The Forth language has served me well over
the years, and it will always have a special place in my heart. Always
remember: You don't write "FOR" an operating system in Forth, you
"ARE" the operating system in Forth. FORTH FOREVER!!"
(07/06/2007)
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