1989 Rochester Forth Conference
Industrial Automation

The Rochester Forth Conference on Industrial Automation was hosted by Institute for Applied Forth Research, Inc., at the University of Rochester, in cooperation with IEEE Computer Society, June 20-24, 1989.

The conference was orginised by the Institute for Applied Forth Research, Inc, and was sponsored by:

ACA Inc
Dash, Find Associates
Digalog, Inc
Encoder Products, Inc
FORTH, Inc.
Harris Semiconductor
Mikrap, AG
Miller Microcomputer Services, Inc.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Varian/Extrion
VIDEK, Inc.

Presentations Include:

• Invited Papers
  • Forth in the U.S.S.R, by S. N. Baranoff
  • Forth for IBM Mainframe Computers, by S. N. Baranoff
  • Symbolic Computations on a Personal Computer, by S. N. Baranoff
  • Forth-based Control of an Ion Implanter, by Don Berrian
  • SwissForth: a Development and Simulation Environment for Industrial and Embedded Controllers, by Klaus Flesch
  • Breakthrough in Knowledge Management, by Bjorn J. Gruenwald
  • : Cellmake/TOOLBOX Hardware/Software Workstation/Language DOES> Automotive/Aerospace Powertrain/Vehicle Development/Testing ;, by Bob McFarland
  • An Application Specific Machine Vision System, by Jim Reda
  • Events and Objects: Industrial Control by Hierarchial Decomposition, by Dean Sanderson

• Presented Papers
  • Menu Control using Stack Frames, by James D. Basile
  • TCM300: A Threaded Machine for the UR300, by Ivan Bella
  • Pull Down Menus, by Gary Bergstrom
  • Sun SPARCstation 1 with Forth Firmware, by Mitch Bradley
  • FOOPS: Object Oriented Programming System, by Jim Callahan
  • Run Time Opcodes, by Rob Chapman
  • Simply Metacompiling, by Rob Chapman
  • Examples of a Minimal OOP Notation for Forth, by Rod Crawford
  • The Innovatia Mobile Robot Project, by Dennis Feucht
  • A Forth-Based Vacuum-System Control, by Dennis L. Feucht
  • Performance Evaluation of the SC32 Stack Microprocessor, by Martin E. Fraeman
  • Implementing Record Structures in Forth: A Modest Suggestion, by Harvey Glass and Mike Mellen
  • The Harris RTX 2000 C Compiler, by Tom Hand
  • Performance of the Harris RTX 2000 C Compiler, by Tom Hand
  • Sorting It Out, by Henning Hansen and Niels Jørgen Christensen
  • Hierarchial Representation of Binary Image Attributes, by Richard E. Haskell and Bahram Mirshab
  • Distributed Control with Bitbus and Forth-83, by Lonny Hawkins
  • A Programming Style, by Glen B. Haydon
  • Postpone, by John R. Hayes
  • Multiple Whiles, by John R. Hayes
  • Implementation of Forth as a Menu Assist, Interactive Instrumentation Control Vehicle, by Larry D. Smith and John M. Hubbard
  • Forth as a Flexible-Hub, Remote-Control Network, by Larry D. Smith and John M. Hubbard
  • Computer Assisted Microballoon Selection for Laser Fusion Targets, by C. Immesoete, L. Forsley and H. Kim
  • RTX 4000, by Philip Koopman and Rick VanNorman
  • Real-time Control of High-Speed Newspaper Conveyors Using the Novix Processor, by Pete Koziar
  • Beyond 64K on the Harris RTX 2000, by Mike Mellen and Harvey Glass
  • FORTO: A More Understandable Forth, by A. Richard Miller and Jill Miller
  • Forth Engine Development Environments for Industrial Control, by George A. Nicol and Scott E. Reinhart
  • Cross Compiling - The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, by Stephen Pelc
  • Utilities for Machine Language Code, by Fred W. Quelle Jr
  • The Use of Forth in Remote Instrumentation for SHAD Experiments, by Fred W. Quelle Jr
  • Forth Optimization on the SC32 Stack-Chip Microprocessor, by Scott E. Reinhart
  • Implementation of a Minimum SC32 Stack-Chip Computer, by Scott E. Reinhart and Robert Bumala
  • Building on Forth's Strengths - A PC Based MIMIC Package, by R. M. Rodriguez and C. L. Stephens
  • Supervisory System for a Coal Mining Dragline, by Ray St. Laurent
  • Coping with a Large Forth System, by Norman E. Smith
  • Implementation of a Minimum Forth System, by N. Solntseff and Xiao-kang Zhang
  • Extending the Forth Environment to Single Chip Microprocessors, by A. P. Haley and C. L. Stephens
  • Easy Monte Carlo Error Analysis, by J. E. Thomas
  • Continuous Fourier Transform, by Rick VanNorman and C. H. Ting
  • Cooperative Multitasking on the RTX 2000, by Rick VanNorman
  • A Real-time Visual Language Based on the Forth Stack Concept, by Douglas M. Varney
  • Real-time Automated Optical Inspection of Surface Mount Components, by Yohko Watanabe
  • Forth: The Language of Choice for Instrument Control, Data Acquisition and Analysis in the University of Maryland Two-Color Refractometry Program, by Dennis Wellnitz and Douglas Currie
  • A new Forth, by Hank Wilinson
  • Controlling a Forth Short Block, by Hank Wilkinson
  • A Forth Based Man/Machine Interface for Environmental Control and Monitoring, by Richard Garmon and Charles Wilson

• Abstracts
  • Forth Activities in Germany, by Winfried Hofacker
  • A Forth Application for Fast Time-Resolved Fluorescence Data, by D. Asson, K. Karpa, R. Hwang-Schweitzer and L. Forsley
  • A Debugging Environment for Forth, by Peter C. Lind
  • What is Wrong with Forth?, by Steven M. Lowis
  • An Implemention for Improvising Jazz Bass Sequences, by Gerald F. Marshall
  • Diagnosis and Repair Prescription in the Manufacturing Environment, by Ric Mayer and Paul Snow
  • Design Issues for a Forth Binding to POSIX.1, by Marty McGowan
  • Strings, Associative Access and Memory Allocation, by N. Solntseff and Brad Rodriguez
  • VectorFORTH - Programming an Array Processor in Forth, by Brad Rodriguez
  • A Hardware Metacompiler for the RTX 2000, by David Rusnell
  • Denotational Language Support in the Fifth Programming Environment, by Paul Snow and Clay Douglass

• Working Groups
  • Embedded Systems
  • Object-Oriented Programming

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