Notes taken by Dan Zuras.
The January meeting of the 754 group was hosted by Jim Thomas in the Boise Room in building 46U at HP in Cupertino on Wednesday 1/18 from 1:00 to 5:00.
Here is the attendence list.
| Name | 754 Member | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Steven Carlough | XX | IBM (phone) |
| Marius Cornea | XX | Intel (phone) |
| Mike Cowlishaw | XX | IBM (phone) |
| Bob Davis | XX | Summit |
| Dick Delp | XX | Self |
| Mark Erle | XX | IBM (phone) |
| J.P. Fasano | X. | IBM |
| Ivan Godard | XX | OOTBC |
| Roger Golliver | XX | Intel |
| Michel Hack | XX | IBM (phone) |
| John Harrison | XX | Intel (phone) |
| Graydon Hoare | no | Mozilla |
| David Hough | XX | Sun |
| William Kahan | XX | U.C.Berkeley |
| Jeff Kidder | XX | Intel (phone) |
| Alex Liu | XX | Sun |
| Nobuyoshi Mori | XX | SAP.COM (phone) |
| Eric Postpischil | X. | Apple |
| Stuart Oberman | XX | Nvidia |
| Jon Okada | XX | HP |
| Ian Ollmann | X. | Apple |
| Eric Schwarz | XX | IBM (phone) |
| Jim Shearer | X. | IBM |
| Ron Smith | X. | IBM |
| Peter Tang | XX | Intel |
| Pamela Taylor | X. | Self |
| Leonard Tsai | X. | HP |
| Jim Thomas | XX | HP |
| Fred Zemke | X. | Oracle |
| Dan Zuras | XX | Group70 |
| ----- | ||
| John Crawford | .X | Intel |
| Alex Fit-Florea | .. | AMD |
| Peter Markstein | .X | HP |
| Ilya Sharapov | .. | Sun |
| Michael Siu | .. | Nvidia |
Shall we move the substantive meetings to Wednesday & have the draft reviews (if needed) on Thursday? This would aid in a scheduling conflict that has come up for Prof Kahan this year & others have mentioned it might make it easier for those who fly into these meetings to schedule their return flights. Yes.
Let us determine dates & venues for our meetings for the rest of the year. (After the meeting, Eric Postpischil of Apple arranged to host August & November.)
Wednesday 2/15 full meeting, David Hough at Sun in Menlo Park
Thursday 2/16 draft review
Wednesday 3/15 full meeting, Joe Darcy at Sun in Santa Clara
Thursday 3/16 draft review
Wednesday 4/19 full meeting, Jeff Kidder at Intel in Santa
Thursday 4/20 draft review
Wednesday 5/17 full meeting, Roger Golliver at Intel in Santa
Thursday 5/18 draft review
Wednesday 6/21 full meeting, Jim Thomas at HP in Cupertino
Thursday 6/22 draft review
Wednesday 7/19 full meeting, David Hough at Sun in Menlo Park
Thursday 7/20 draft review
Wednesday 8/16 full meeting, Eric Postpischil at Apple in Ten Forward
Thursday 8/17 draft review, Conference Room at 2 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Wednesday 9/20 full meeting, TBA
Thursday 9/21 draft review
Wednesday 10/18 full meeting, TBA
Thursday 10/19 draft review
Wednesday 11/15 full meeting, Eric Postpischil at Apple in Ten Forward
Thursday 11/16 draft review, Conference Room at 2 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Wednesday 12/20 full meeting, TBA
Thursday 12/21 draft review
Any volunteers for the permanent position of 754 secretary? Dick Delp
Prof Kahan wishes to speak to defaults & their effect on debugging issues.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ Wants double extended or quad available for debugging & reducing the probability of round off error induced bugs into the noise. This & humane exception handling must be mandatory. And redirecting rounding direction.
Jeff's group will present the result of the rules committee. You can find their revised version at either of:
http://754r.ucbtest.org/pnp-0.8.html
http://nonabelian.com/754/PnP_0_8.htm
This is our draft of the rules given to us by the MSC as approved for IEEE committees & working groups that report to the MSC. Largely the removal of entity & meta-comments together with some small modifications. Some questions came up in 4.1 about the signing of a Copyright Assignment Form "prior to active participation and/or voting in any working group meeting." Prof Kahan suggested replacing Assignment with Release & go on. In 6, "All officers shall be..." changed to "The chair shall be...". After MUCH discussion we changed an 'after' to 'upon'.
Our PAR (754Revision) expires December 2006. Bob Davis will explain what we need to finish by then.
Must be available for the October MSC meeting & need to ask for a sponsor ballot by the July MSC.