1982 The Rochester Forth Conference
Databases and Process Control

The Rochester Forth Conference on Databases and Process Control was hosted by the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester and the Institute for Applied Forth Research, Inc., 18-21 May 1982.

The conference was orginised by the Institute for Applied Forth Research, Inc., with sponsorship from:

Mountain View Press
The Redding Company
The Standard Oil Company (OHIO)
The University of Rochester Computing Center

Presentations include:

• Data Bases:
  • Database Conceptual Models: A Comparative View, by James D. Basile
  • Elements of a Forth Relational Database Manager, by Howard Goodell Jr.
  • Real-Time Data Base Use in Forth, by Skip Reymann
  • Addressable Disk Units for Mass Storage in Forth, by David B. Moens
  • The DATAHANDLER (A Simple, High-Speed Database Application in MMSForth), by Dick Miller

• Process Control:
  • Finite-State Machines. Theory, Synthesis, and Minimization, by Charles H. Small
  • Forth for a Parking Lot, by Steve Gulick, Jim Eldon and John Potye
  • Music Synthesis in the Forth Programming Environment, by Jeff C. Morriss
  • Data Collection in Telecommunications, by John A. Lefor
  • Multitask Capabilities for a PET Microcomptuer Using Forth, by Daniel E. Rivera
  • Memory Mapping in Forth, by J. R. Stapleton

• Machine Independnece:
  • FADS: Forth Assembler Duncan Sytle, by William Mitchell
  • An Application of Pre-compiled Forth, by Bradley A. Grigor
  • FORTHTRAN 77, by C. Edward Wischmeyer
  • An Abstract Machine for the Forth system, by Nicholas Solntseff
  • Tranporting Interactive Programs in MMSForth, by Tom Dowling
  • A Look at the Future of Forth, by Gerry Pocock

• Project Management:
  • Microcomputers in Production Control and Management, by Manfred Peschke
  • Managing Size and Complexity in Large Forth Application, by Rosemary C. Leary
  • Consulting Using Forth: Selected Gleanings, by John A. Teleska
  • User Access Control in the Forth system, by Donald A. Davenport

• Data Structures:
  • Generalized Building Words, by David C. Frank and Glen W. Johnson
  • Alternatives to "TO", by George Lyons
  • A Forth Based Approach to Three-dimensional Graphcis, by Carole A. Winkler
  • Another Aid for Stack Manipulation and Parameter Passing in Forth, by Paul Bartholdi
  • Action/Object Representation in Forth, by Peter H. Helmers

• Math:
  • A Note on Displaying Fixed and Floating Point Numbers, by Jerry LeVan
  • The Fast Fourier Transform in Forth, by Hans Nieuwenhuijzen
  • A Parse-tial Solution to RPN, by Peter H. Helmers

• Forth Facilities:
  • The Forth Solution of the Hardware Interrupts Handler, by Julije Ozegovic
  • The Importance of the Routine QUIT, by Hans Nieuwenhuijzen
  • Forth Syntax Diagrams, by K. Moerman

• Working Group Reports:
  • Techniques, by Rieks Joosten
  • Files Management, by Howard Goodell Jr.
  • Virtual Machines, by Roger Stapleton
  • Memory Mapping, by Roger Stapleton

• Abstracts without Papers:
  • Forth System for Rader Control and Data Acquisition Using a Microcomputer, by Sidney Bowhill and F. Keasler
  • Teaching Forth, by Gregory Cholmondeley
  • Why Have Relations?, by Michael Crick
  • System State Matrix for Graphics and Process Control: A Forth Applciation, by Paul Hamilton, Lawrence Forsley and Peter Paulson
  • An Automated Autocorrelation of Femtosend Laser Pulses, by Steven Zoeller, Tod Sizer and Jim Kafka

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