1986 Rochester Forth Conference
Real-Time Artificial Intelligence, Applications and Implementation

The Rochester Forth Conference on Real-Time Artificial Intelligence, Applications and Implementation was hosted by the Laboratory for Laser Energetics of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Rochester, 1986.

The conference was orginised by the Institute for Applied Forth Research, Inc, and the IEEE Computer Society with sponsorship from:

Instruments and Controls Divison of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennesee)
Eastman Kodak Company
Videk, a Division of Eastman Technology

Presentations Include:

• Invited Papers
  • REAL-OPS: A Real-Time Engineering Applications Language for Writing Expert Systems, W. B. Dress
  • Sensor Fusion: The Application of Artificial intelligence Technology to Process Control, Steven R. LeClair
  • Toward the Development of a Real-Time Expert System, Jack Park
  • ACTOR, A Threaded Object-Oriented Language, Charles B. Duff

• Artificial Intelligence
  • Symbolic Processing Potential of Forth-Based Microcomputers, Harry G. Arnold
  • Artificial Intelligence: The Human-Computer Interface?, James D. Basile
  • Fifth-Generation Forth, James C. Bender
  • Forth for AI?, Harold Carr and Robert R. Kessler
  • Systems that have ideas instead of rule based knowledge, Rene Heuer
  • An Implementation of FORPS on a NOVIX Beta Board, Christopher J. Matheus
  • Knowledge Engineering, Expert Systems and Real-Time Environments, Nicholas Solntseff, A. D. Hurst and W.F.S. Poehlmann
  • Some Experiences with EXPERT-2, C.M. Sargent, L.G. Watson, R.M. Westman
  • Pattern Variables in Forth, Martin J. Tracy

• Object Oriented Programming
  • Object Oriented Programming in Fifth, Cliff Click and Paul Snow
  • Defining Words with Class, Alan T. Furman

• Other Languages Implemented in Forth
  • Fifth: A Forth Based Programming Environment, Cliff Click and Paul Snow
  • POSTSCRIPT, Paul Snow, Cliff Click and Norman Naugle
  • Comical: A Forth-based Programming Language for Optimized Array Processor Programming, John E. Lecky
  • A Survey of the Characteristics of Very High Level Languages, Regis S. Loffman
  • A simple authoring system for Computer-Assisted Instruction, B. Gregory Louis
  • A Polyphonic Electronic Organ, C.H. Ting
  • REPTIL: Promoting Dialog Between Humanoid and Computer, Israel Urieli
  • Authoring System Tools for CAI, Jamison H. Abbott
  • C and Forth Machines, Robert D. Dixon and Debra Roark
  • A Requirement Definition Language, Simulator and Test Harness for Programmable Logic Control Systems (PLCs), C.L. Stephens, A.C. Daly, B.J. Mercer

• Software Tools
  • .ORPHANS: An Unreferenced Code Finder, Jamison H. Abbott
  • A More Thorough Syntax Checker for Forth, Robert D. Dixon and David Hemmendinger
  • A Threaded Interpretive Language Supporting Programming in the Large, Mikael R.K. Patel
  • Automatic Word Glossary Generation, Norman E. Smith
  • The LMI Forth-83 Metacompiler, Ray Duncan
  • Software Prototyping with Forth, Kim R. Harris
  • Comments on Documentation, Elizabeth D. Rather and E.K. Conklin
  • An Object-Compiled Forth Interpreter with a Segmented Memory Model, Richard Wilton

• Implementation
  • A Stand-alone Forth System, D.B. Brumm and Upendra D. Kulkarni
  • Release of Z80 RTL to the Public Domain, Bob Buege
  • MVP Microcoded CPU/16: History, Glen B. Haydon and Philip Koopman, Jr.
  • MVP Microcoded CPU/16: Architecture, Glen B. Haydon and Philip Koopman, Jr.
  • An Embedded Forth Environment for a Programmable Bus Interface, Michael Pandolfo
  • Design for a fast 68000-based subroutine threaded Forth with inline code & an optimiser, Anthony Rose
  • Making Novix Beta Boards into Development Workstations, R.K. Adams and T.L. Bowers
  • Compiling Forth for Performance, Thomas Almy
  • An Indirect Threaded Code Organization to Support Dymamic Memory Management, Harvey Glass and Paul Higgins
  • A Single-Board Forth Computer with Versatile Analog I/O Circuitry, Terje G. Vold

• Space Applications
  • A Prototype Expert System in OPS5 for Data Error Detection, James Rash
  • Developing Real Time Process Control in Space, R.J. Wood
  • The Development of an Expert System for the Command and Control of an Orbiting Spaecraft, Henry M. Harris
  • Use of a Forth-Based Prolog for Real-Time Expert Systems, William H. Paloski, Louis L. Odette and Alfred J. Krever

• Process Monitoring
  • A Forth Controlled Oceanographic Instrument, Everett F. Carter and H.T. Rossby
  • A Computerized Corrosion Monitoring System, Edward H. Schmauch
  • A Large (10,000 Sensor) Fire and Gas Safety System implemented using polyFORTH and Ececution Queues, C.L. Stephens and R.M. Rodriguez

• HHC
  • The Use of Forth in a Portable, Point of Sale Environment, Laslo Szasz, Robert Marshall and Anthony Kobykin
  • What Can Be Done with Metacompilers?, Rieks Joosten
  • Simulating and Symbolic Debugging, Harm Braams

• Mathematics
  • FACS --- A Forth Analog Computer Simulator, Nicholas G. Lordi
  • Forth Advanced Scientific Tools: How Intelligent Should Arrays Be?, Ferren MacIntyre
  • Exploring Mandelbrot Fractals with MMSFORTH, Jill A. Miller and James J. Gerow
  • SWIFT---A New Type of Forth Application, John P. Mullen
  • Circular Statistics in Forth, Charles Creutz and M. Kwon

• Philosophy
  • Signal Space, Address Space, & Symbol Space, James C. Brakefield
  • A Century of Forth: Issues and Trends Projected by a Remarkably Parallel Spoken Language, ESPERANTO, A. Richard Miller

• Working Group Reports
  • Forth-like Languages for Artificiasl Intelligence
  • Forth Engines
  • Programming Environments
  • Object-Oriented Forth
  • Graphics
  • Addressing the Forth Standard

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